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• I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Bad
  • Angry
  • Frustrated

• People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Watch
  • Swim

• The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Jump
  • Nation
  • Oil

• There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • People
  • Word
  • Interview

• The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Perfect
  • Revolution
  • Look

• I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Time
  • Control

• I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Live

• Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Want
  • Day
  • Forever

• I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Singing

• In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways - Who was to be the new Bishop?

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Important
  • City
  • Question

• Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Important
  • Live

• I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.

  

  Dorothy Stratten
  • Men
  • Movie

• Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

  

  Andre Breton

• I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.

  

  Brian Jacques
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Success

• I'm a suspicious mulatto, which means I'm too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.

  

  Lemon Andersen
  • Black

• England has collapsed politically, monetarily, constitutionally, and economically. It is not reasonable to demand from them to trigger Article 50.

  

  Mark Rutte

• I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • World
  • Weird

• 'The Breakfast Club' was one of my favorites.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Breakfast

• As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Family
  • Friends

• Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • High

• I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Interesting
  • Photography
  • Archeology

• Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook recommends the ABC of serious investigation: Assume nothing, Believe nothing, and Check everything.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
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