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I invited Colin up on the spur of the moment

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• Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  

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• I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

  

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• Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

  

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• I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.

  

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• I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.

  

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• In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.

  

  Saffron Burrows
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• Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.

  

  H. R. McMaster
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• I don't think good and evil are polarized.

  

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• My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

  

  Barry Mann
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• I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

  

  Sally Rand
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• My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

  

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• My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Great
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• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

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• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

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• Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.

  

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• Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

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• In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

  

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• I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.

  

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  • Song
  • Beautiful

• I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.

  

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• The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.

  

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• Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Moment
  • Inside

• For me, it’s like playing the same instrument but in a different context. TV work – it’s really about getting it just right. You have a chance to try again if it’s not. Theatre is like playing a rock show. It doesn’t really matter if you make a tiny mistake. It’s the whole vibe and getting people to feel you. It’s about carrying the moment through all the way with you in an hour and 20 minutes of the narrative.

  

  Evelyne Brochu
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• I invited Colin up on the spur of the moment

  

  Rodney Terence "Rod" Argent Argent
  • Moment
  • Invited