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• The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Long
  • School
  • Kids

• We sit and read the paper in conjunction with having a little breakfast. Usually fruit salad, or I make myself a smoothie with rice milk, coconut water and yogurt.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Water
  • Myself
  • Breakfast

• I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Focused
  • Since
  • Mechanics

• When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Question

• I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Job
  • Hand

• You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Understand
  • Interest
  • Public

• And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Country
  • High
  • Today

• I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Never
  • Everybody Else

• When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Own
  • Office
  • My Own

• Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • War
  • Plan
  • Nuclear War

• When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Hot Fuzz
  • Barbara Steele

• Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Time
  • Money
  • May

• Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Never
  • Language

• Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Profession
  • Members
  • Other

• I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Man
  • Party

• 'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Long
  • History
  • Song

• I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Myself
  • Down
  • Duck

• Big stories need human stakes.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Human
  • Need
  • Big

• Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also the most powerful, reverberations in the noisy cranial sound-box of consciousness, drowning out more subtle symphonies. Comics scorn finesse, thereby incurring the wrath of linguistic adepts. They defy the limits of accepted fact and convention, thus amortizing to apoplexy the ossified arteries of routine thought.

  

  William Moulton Marston
  • Book
  • Nature
  • Powerful

• When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Soul

• If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Food
  • Single
  • Speak

• Will ye come with me?” he whispered. And she answered without hesitation. “Yes, please.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Please
  • Hesitation

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