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		Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she's making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tom Cruise 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Uwe Boll 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Padgett Powell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				V. E. Schwab 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Sam Taylor-Wood 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Pardis Sabeti 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mara Brock Akil 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		When I was growing up, around 14, it wasn't really cool at the time to have a big butt. I would always cover it with sweaters, and I was so ashamed of it. Now I'm like, 'Why would I ever do that? That's awful!' Don't change yourself, and don't try to be anyone who you're not. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Elsa Hosk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Samina Baig 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Louis C. K. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think I've grown up in a mixed environment, and maybe a lot of the time I haven't really belonged anywhere in the way I've dreamt of belonging to, you know, living on the street and playing to all the kids on the street, growing up together. I suppose 'Raw Like Sushi' was a place where all of those things could come together. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Neneh Cherry 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she's making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tom Cruise