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		We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I caught the acting bug from my dad. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Finn Wittrock 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madonna 
			 
			
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		I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carlene Carter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nathan Myhrvold 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Washed Out 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lael Brainard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Simplify, simplify. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Henry David Thoreau 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I'm doing the brute work, I do it early in the morning; that's the best time for me to get the stuff down on the page. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Edgar Wideman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dakota Fanning 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm not very good at cooking, and I'm away all the time, and I like transient living. I get really itchy feet if I stay in one place. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alison Goldfrapp 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Live-action has always been my focus and my passion. I love voice-over, and I definitely could see myself doing some voice-over, as much as I could, and even if I ended up doing only that for the rest of my life, and I could be successful at it, that would be great. But I think my real dream is to do films and live-action films. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jeremy Shada 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. J. Abrams