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		It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damon Galgut 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harmony Korine 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edith Piaf 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Forest Whitaker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Caitlin Moran 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vanessa Paradis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Malvinder Mohan Singh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Saint Teresa of Avila 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gautam Gambhir 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I really don't believe in magic. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Joanne Rowling 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pam Brown 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abraham Lincoln 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ingrid Betancourt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fletcher Knebel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tabitha King 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed Speleers 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Flea 
			 
			
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		I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Naomi Watts 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fleur East