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• I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• There is no bore like a clever bore.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Clever
  • Bore

• I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Like
  • Fish
  • Fresh

• I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Doing

• Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Truth
  • Night
  • Sleep

• I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Prom

• My dad's not a big talker.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Dad
  • Big
  • Talker

• Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Important
  • Society
  • Education

• Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mistake

• A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Country
  • Man
  • Religion

• As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Experience
  • Said
  • Old

• I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Work
  • Series
  • TV

• Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Men
  • Game
  • Simple

• I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Performance
  • Separate
  • Critical

• For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Christian
  • Practice
  • Religion

• Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Food
  • Spoiled
  • Southerner

• Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect or a linear narrative. It's surreal, it's absurd, it's wordplay, it's satirical, it's analyzing itself, it's funny, it's an enormous challenge.

  

  James Bobin
  • Funny
  • Challenge

• I always wanted to make a living as an actor living in New York. A New York actor. What's better than that?

  

  Bobby Cannavale

• How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Die
  • Question

• To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy. Also, they've just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • World
  • Great
  • Happy

• The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Pain
  • Difficulty
  • Opium

• You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.

  

  Larry Wall