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In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

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• I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

  

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• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  

  Ian McShane
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• It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
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• I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

  

  Larry David
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• A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

  

  Earl Wilson
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• Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

  

  Carl Sagan
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• I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.

  

  Laura Bush
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• For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.

  

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• I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
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• I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.

  

  Patrick Chan
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• 'What harm have the trees done them?' he said. 'Must they punish the grass for their own faults? Men are savages, who would set a land afire because they have a quarrel with other men.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• Did you know what would happen next? Did you know and sit there like God, silent, remorseless, useless?

  

  Kage Baker
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• I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
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• Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
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• I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.

  

  John Polkinghorne
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• The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

  

  Rick Perry
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• And now I understand something so frightening, and wonderful - how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.

  

  Mary Oliver
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• In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

  

  Alexandra Fuller