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• Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Free
  • Hand

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Reputation
  • Potential

• Every writer dreams of having a backyard cottage, similar to Dahl's 'writing hut.' English cottages and charming huts might seem out of reach, but a good carpenter could build a modest cottage on the cheap.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Good
  • Writing
  • English

• I've never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I drove that until I almost had to pay someone to tow it away.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Car
  • Never
  • Hollywood

• As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Me
  • Confidence

• I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Character

• I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Government
  • Progressive

• Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Important
  • Soul
  • Energy

• Entire islands and groves of memory suddenly sprung up and I found myself face to face with a deeper awareness of what I can only describe as numerous versions of my singular self and my solitary destiny, pencil sketches of possibility bitch hoe slut thot saw myself as a clown, a poet, a slave, an orator, a prophet and a beggar and a healer and a warrior.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Up
  • Destiny
  • Warrior

• Sed nihil dulcius est, bene quam munita tenereedita doctrina sapientum templa serena,despicere unde queas alios passimque videreerrare atque viam palantis quaerere vitae,certare ingenio, contendere nobilitate,noctes atque dies niti praestante laboread summas emergere opes rerumque potiri.

  

  Lucretius

• '...But love is like the measles; the later in life it affects you, the more severe the consequences' 'Is there anything you can take for it?' 'Only wedding vows'

  

  Len Deighton
  • Life
  • Wedding

• I consider myself a lazy guy, but I do a bunch of stuff, and I'm so busy that in my downtime, I like to be with my wife, who I'm just madly in love with.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Guy
  • Wife
  • Lazy

• I almost feel like sometimes when I'm on location, you miss your home and your family and all that stuff, but it keeps you focused on the work.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• The friendships I made on 'L.A. Law,' with the cast and Steven Bochco and David Kelley were really wonderful.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Law
  • Friendships

• Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • Opportunity
  • Sports

• I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

  

  Don Cheadle
  • Time

• If you want to be taken seriously, always check your fly.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Taken
  • Fly

• My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Chocolate

• You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Life
  • Sleep
  • Survivor

• I do know a good singer when I hear one.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Good

• I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

  

  John Sexton
  • Power
  • Beautiful
  • Plant

• My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.

  

  John Schneider
  • Time
  • Important
  • Running

• Officers don't run, only corporals do that

  

  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  • Running
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  • Officers