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• 'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Happy
  • Morning
  • Doing

• I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Shame

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Problem
  • Smart

• There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Long
  • Man
  • Justice

• In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Moving

• In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Work
  • Know

• We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Light
  • Kitchen
  • Step

• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • Today
  • Society

• Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Great
  • Line
  • Admiration

• When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Security
  • Transportation

• I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Great
  • Real
  • Family

• When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Present

• Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Chinese
  • Factory
  • Smart phone

• In life, there's a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there's a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down... just because you don't want to face the decloaking in the mirror.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mirror

• As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'

  

  Parker Palmer
  • God
  • Truth
  • American

• The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Up
  • Want
  • Run

• Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short amount of time. Travel. Talk to everyone. Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world. That's how you learn to treat people well. And that's sexy.

  

  Nicole Lapin
  • Experience
  • Intelligence
  • Adventures

• Let's not talk punishment.

  

  George Steinbrenner
  • Punishment

• Suicide is one concept I do not understand. To want to kill someone else, for a second, yes, but to want to kill oneself, never.

  

  Agnes Moorehead
  • Understand
  • Suicide

• My experience as a Jewish American has often been as a spectator of one-sided conversations, or more like monologues, about Israel, Jewish History, Jewish identity, etc. Although there are profound divisions amongst Jews on all of these topics there are not many opportunities for deep and thoughtful dialogue about them.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Opportunity
  • Identity
  • Profound

• Scientists define these terms in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

  

  Anthony Standen
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