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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

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• I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Men
  • Creative
  • Paint

• If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Success
  • Stopped
  • Boston

• I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mind

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Me
  • Like
  • Dying

• Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Bad
  • You
  • Race

• The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • School
  • Movie
  • Career

• If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Me
  • Laugh
  • Jokes

• I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Time
  • Wonderful
  • Rejection

• Let me tell you that I love the United States.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • You
  • Tell
  • Let

• I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Win
  • Gold

• I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Me
  • Know

• Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • Child
  • Fat

• Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Opportunity
  • Imagination

• Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Performance
  • Expectations

• I haven't been to Berlin Fashion Week before, but it's really on the up. Being an artist as well as a model, I know that the art world is booming here, so it makes sense that fashion would feel that effect, too.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Up
  • World
  • Art

• There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Song
  • Ideas

• One of the ways usually that you build a bipartisan agreement is one side gives up a little, and the other side gives up a little.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Up

• I'm running for controller to ensure our government reflects the values of the people of California and increases prosperity by managing our finances smartly, efficiently and effectively.

  

  John Perez
  • People
  • Running
  • California

• A baby is such a huge change for everyone, so acknowledge that. It's hard, and you don't have to be great at everything right away.

  

  Eva Amurri
  • Change
  • Acknowledge
  • Right Away

• For me, summer hasn't really started until tomatoes reappear in local farmers' markets.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Summer

• Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

  

  Willa Cather
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