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Susan Sontag

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• I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Friends
  • House
  • Dad

• I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Today
  • Feeling

• Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Drinking

• It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Love
  • Football
  • Baseball

• The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Important
  • Game
  • Day

• Hizb ut-Tahrir spearheaded the radicalization of the 1990s and cultivated an atmosphere of anger.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Anger
  • Atmosphere

• I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Films
  • Big
  • Lots

• It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Family
  • Achieve
  • Just

• I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Mother
  • Food
  • Childhood

• In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Words
  • Ideas
  • Poetry

• Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • World
  • Truth
  • Faith

• As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Fighting
  • Always
  • Never

• I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Body
  • Healthy
  • Size

• Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Great
  • Past
  • Islam

• Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Sports
  • Gold
  • Determination

• Do your own thing; always follow your dreams and don't feel limited by what someone prescribes to you as to what you should do. Expand your horizons, try new things, be adventurous.

  

  Adrienne Monique Jordan
  • Dreams
  • Follow
  • Horizons

• As the times change, people change, and so do their tastes, so I try to understand what the public wants, what they require. I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

  

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
  • Change
  • Public
  • Tastes

• The beauty with comics - and also the risk - is it is a far smaller number of voices. It's the writer and the artist and to a lesser extent the editor, who typically is the silent partner, if you've got a good enough team. Whatever you put out is the author's intent. You have to be able to defend that, of course. You have no one to hide behind, or no one to blame but yourselves, which I find refreshing because I've found in film too many times I've been blamed for other people's decisions.

  

  Eric Heisserer
  • Artist
  • Risk
  • Writer

• Re-energize your Soul... Walk with Mother nature.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Mother
  • Nature
  • Soul

• The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public.

  

  Susan Sontag
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