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		I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Imelda May 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan O'Brien 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patricia Polacco 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Daniel Curtis Lee 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Andrea Bocelli 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Quick. Name ten dead redheads. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eric Bogosian 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				F. Sionil Jose 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Joanna Coles 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Imelda May