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		You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Alan Bates 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Aaron Douglas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Madchen Amick 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Samantha Fox 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Carlos Ponce 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barry Diller 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jaan Tallinn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I wrote music as soon as I knew notation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Harrison Birtwistle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Pat Cash 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Carine Roitfeld 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tatiana Maslany 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gail Sheehy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Laura Lippman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Elizabeth Vargas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mary Chapin Carpenter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Everyone's like, 'Oh my God, can I ask you something? You were in 'Percy Jackson,' right?' I'm like, 'No, different guy.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dylan Minnette 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more  # romantic  than the present day 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Fabian Perez 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Alan Bates