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• There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Food
  • Like
  • Wonderful

• Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fun
  • Working
  • Having Fun

• Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Made
  • Athletes
  • Champions

• Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • History
  • Struggle
  • Years

• As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Friends
  • Society
  • College

• I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up
  • Book
  • Mother

• I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • School
  • Girl

• As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • True
  • Political
  • Revolution

• I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • People
  • Why
  • War

• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
  • Being
  • Particularly

• I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Country
  • Mom

• To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Hunger

• I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Better

• I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Singing
  • Competition
  • Big

• I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Question
  • About
  • Antisocial

• I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Art
  • History
  • Photography

• I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Free
  • Child

• I don't like standing and talking in front of lots of people.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Like
  • Standing

• But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Up
  • Character
  • Book

• The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Children
  • Love
  • Guy

• You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.

  

  Andrew Niccol
  • Work
  • Choices
  • Changes

• If you look at my record, I have a clean record.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • You
  • Look
  • Clean

• The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

  

  Ovid
  • Oil
  • Clean
  • Bright