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		My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Anthony Doerr 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pamela Adlon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edmund Hillary 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Brown 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fedor Emelianenko 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Kirn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carla Gugino 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabriel Marcel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ike Turner 
			 
			
				Ike & Tina Turner  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madeleine Peyroux 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Kruger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Brown 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Balthasar Klossowski de Rola 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Aarti Sequeira 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barry Bonds 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		My life has gotten so much better since I turned 40. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Anthony Michael Hall 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		One of my favorite moments was when I stepped onstage for my first Victoria's Secret show in 2010, It felt like all that work finally paid off. I had long legs that I worked hard all year to keep, and it felt great being able to show them off. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lais Ribeiro 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm just, like, totally normal. The fact that any of this has happened, that we're sitting here at the Beverly Hills Hotel just gets me going, like, 'What?' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gwen Stefani 
			 
			
				No Doubt  
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Anthony Doerr