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		Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Clarence John Laughlin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. Courtney Sullivan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam McKay 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fat Joe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Daniel Day-Lewis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gael Garcia Bernal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. Somerset Maugham 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I try not to write songs in which men glamorize their own need for approval from women. That's kinda a bogus way to go out. But I try to do this quietly. I'm not about to go around telling people how they should or shouldn't think. My feminism is for me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Darnielle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'Cause your love got the best of me, and baby you're making a fool of me. You got me sprung and i don't care who sees, 'cause baby you got me so crazy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		God in my mind gives you what you need. So, if you need God to be a black woman and you need that for whatever your reasons are, then perhaps your blessings will come in that form. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Octavia Spencer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I lose myself in my performances so I wouldn't say that I ever act on stage. I don't find it to be an acting drill for me. I just find it to be something very real that comes from a very gut-driven, honest place. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Christina Aguilera 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Splatter the brain matter of my enemies, with the same bullet trajectory that murdered John Kennedy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Canibus 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Clarence John Laughlin