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I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.

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• My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

  

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• A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

  

  Harold Pinter
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• Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
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• Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
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• Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.

  

  Jacob Batalon
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• Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.

  

  Feist
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• The worsening of relations between a declining America and an internally troubled Mexico could even give rise to a particularly ominous phenomenon: the emergence, as a major issue in nationalistically aroused Mexican politics, of territorial claims justified by history and ignited by cross-border incidents.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• Teaching kids to become something other than what they were born to be is probably impossible; teaching them to behave in ways that seem unnatural to them at the start is actually not that hard.

  

  Adam Gopnik
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• …a man who sold meat but knew nothing of the poetry of the slaughterhouse…. Ted Arden was no ice-cream butcher.

  

  Anthony Burgess
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• To preserve Nature's chiefest boon, that is freedom, I can find means of offence and defence, when it is assailed by ambitious tyrants, and first I will speak of the situation of the walls, and also I shall show how communities can maintain their good and just Lords.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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• Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • Power
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• The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action.

  

  Al Gore
  • Science
  • Action
  • Fire

• The best way I could describe it at Notre Dame was that I was accepted as a member of the family.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Family

• It hurt me deeply, this reputation as tough, hard, mean.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Hurt

• Each of us is born into our own mysteries…but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • Homecoming

• You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • May
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• There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They'll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table.

  

  Danny Meyer
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• The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures without my roommates present, I would often wake up with my gums bleeding, my teeth hurting or my jaw aching. Often, well-intentioned people, believing I would choke on my tongue, tried to force open my clenched jaw to put in a hard object.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • People
  • Up
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• Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • Life

• I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.

  

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  • Normal Childhood