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In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

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• Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Art
  • Help

• Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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  • Friend
  • Best

• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Judge
  • Dreams

• I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

  

  Kate Moss
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• I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Fun
  • Like

• Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Change

• Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Dark
  • Losing

• I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Experience
  • Magic
  • Movies

• The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
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• Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Value
  • Always
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• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
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• In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Friend
  • Like
  • Street

• Even the ears must dance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Dance
  • Ears
  • Must

• Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Ache
  • Untouchables
  • Part Of

• I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Work
  • Writing
  • American

• I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.

  

  Don Shula
  • Time
  • Father
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• When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
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• In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
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