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		When you have a spinal or brain injury, or any kind of devastating illness, you kind of fall through the cracks in a sense. Your world implodes, and no one is really there to help pick up the pieces.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victoria Arlen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Bush 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Heughan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Halsey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I tried to play rugby but was never very good. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ralph Fiennes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				D. H. Lawrence 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kaia Gerber 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackie Speier 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madeleine L'Engle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Valerie June 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taron Egerton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zoe Kravitz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Brian Tracy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. J. O'Rourke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Andrei Tarkovsky 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's meant to talk to you; it's meant to shame you. It's meant to scream out at you, and it has a message. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Don McCullin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are - whether it's here in the United States or, as Hillary (Clinton) mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barack Obama 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you have a spinal or brain injury, or any kind of devastating illness, you kind of fall through the cracks in a sense. Your world implodes, and no one is really there to help pick up the pieces. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victoria Arlen