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		It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that."
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Norm MacDonald 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Beatrice Wood 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Garth Stein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Lambert 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yoko Ono 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karl Lagerfeld 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel Beckett 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yaya Toure 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Life is too short to be on a diet. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taylor Jenkins Reid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gale Norton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bam Margera 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I couldn't get a date, but I couldn't be quite sure how unattractive I'd become. I was still friendly; I made jokes, and in my mind, if I saw a woman smiling at me... I still had a chance. I did not. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victor LaValle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Daniel Boulud 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Orlando Bloom 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jimmy Carter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bat for Lashes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that." 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Norm MacDonald