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I definitely gain weight, and I'm not naturally thin.

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• When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • History
  • Science

• I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • People
  • Know
  • Sports

• I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • American
  • Kind
  • British

• I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Try

• I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • School
  • America

• If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Smart

• The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Music
  • Best

• With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Truth
  • Best
  • Judge

• 'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Politics

• It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

  

  Iris Chang
  • History
  • Difficult
  • Very

• I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• The best thing about being in New York is the people, and you get to walk everywhere.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Best
  • New

• On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • World
  • Children
  • School

• In the Dominican Republic, my mom and I lived in this little tiny town called Cabarete, which is very poor.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Mom
  • Poor
  • Town

• The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Focus

• Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • She
  • Football
  • Training

• Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Misfortunes

• When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.

  

  Alex Haley
  • Up
  • Hand

• I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

  

  Edward VII
  • View
  • Private
  • Jacket

• I definitely gain weight, and I'm not naturally thin.

  

  Bella Hadid