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		No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Garth Brooks 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Shelley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Horner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sally Hawkins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ram Dass 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edmund Phelps 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				D. A. Pennebaker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		The first day I was in a daze thinking, ‘What am I doing? What’s my role?’ and then slowly we started writing with each other, and it was great. It took me way back to my high school days when I was playing in a rock band. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				A. R. Rahman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A lot of people are quick to say that saying 'black lives matter' makes you anti-cop. All lives should indeed matter, but we have a systemic problem in this country in which black lives do not matter enough. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Angie Thomas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What we can do is to shape how that process of global integration proceeds, so that it's increasing opportunity for ordinary people, so that it's creating better jobs, so that we are strengthening protections for workers, so that we are addressing some of the environmental challenges that come with rapid growth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barack Obama 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		At 11, I went to live with my maternal nan and granddad temporarily, after my parents separated, and Nan would let me have a go on her piano. My grandparents were like something out of the Noel Coward play, 'This Happy Breed,' and it was magical to hear them sing music-hall songs. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jools Holland 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'Deep Red' (1975) is my favorite movie. The character David Hemmings plays is very much based on my own personality. It was a very strong film, very brutal, and of course the censors were upset. It was cut by almost an hour in some countries. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dario Argento 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Garth Brooks