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		She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				A. S. Byatt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Becky G 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				M. J. Rose 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Patrick Wilson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vilayanur S. Ramachandran 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				P. J. O'Rourke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Salmon P. Chase 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've done a little directing, but I love acting more. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Danica McKellar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				George Eliot 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		At age 7 In eight hours of concentrated practice between my twice-weekly lessons, I memorized the A major and played it for Persinger. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Yehudi Menuhin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth. And it happens every few minutes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kurt Cobain 
			 
			
				Nirvana  
			
			
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				A. S. Byatt