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• Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Story
  • Hero
  • Look

• I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Long
  • Job
  • Help

• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Different
  • Team

• You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Weird

• I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Think
  • Always
  • Very

• I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Taken
  • Photography
  • Modeling

• But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Men
  • Love

• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Almost

• Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Energy
  • Civilization
  • Skill

• I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Break
  • Back
  • Touring

• All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Skills
  • Producer
  • Using

• My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Age

• If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Change
  • Try
  • Changing

• An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Day
  • Thanksgiving
  • Diet

• I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Girl
  • I Can
  • Hopeless

• With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Future
  • Decide
  • Aspiration

• There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Different
  • Food

• The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Money
  • Search
  • Research

• For me, the biggest thing is someone who's kind. I'm not into the bad-boy thing.

  

  Carrie-Anne Moss
  • Kind
  • Boys

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.

  

  Chad Everett
  • Family
  • Trouble

• We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.

  

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