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• We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Where

• I'm genuinely peaceful and positive. I feel more grounded and connected with everything - friends, family. And I think I've changed the way I deal with stuff recently; I'm trying to think of everything in a more positive way because if something gets me down, it'll really gets me down. The thing I wish I could do more of is train. It's the one thing I do that doesn't require any emotion.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Family

• My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Trying
  • She
  • Mom

• You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style. That's what man does. But if you're looking at the philosophy correctly, and I never did - I like to think I did sometimes - you have to do it without ego, without the I. You have to separate yourself.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Style
  • Animal
  • Ego

• One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly.

  

  C. J. Anderson
  • Life
  • Doe
  • Folly

• We have to acknowledge the substantial progress that has been made in India.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • Progress
  • India
  • Acknowledge

• You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • God
  • Believe
  • Intelligent

• It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Write
  • Fiction
  • Mormons

• Is it exciting to have a codified identity, which then gets a codified set of rights and recognitions and visibility? Are we supposed to take it from there, within the same system? Or are we trying to upset the table before we want a place at it?

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Identity
  • Exciting
  • Codified

• I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Example
  • Fact

• Again, it occurred to me how weird it was to be permanent in a place that to everyone else was only temporary. Like I could never be sure if they were the ones who weren't real, or if I was.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Real
  • Permanent
  • Temporary

• I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• They've kicked our backsides, we've got to lick our wounds...

  

  Stephen Bruce
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