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		I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jacob Epstein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oscar Robertson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Cohen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eddie Marsan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Auerbach 
			 
			
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		It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damian Lewis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Buettner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. Somerset Maugham 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				George Strait 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages, not least of which, for me, was his love of singing, which gave music a central place in our lives. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James Black 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Leland Ryken 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jacob Epstein