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If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.

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• I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
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• My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
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• I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

  

  Ornette Coleman
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• I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

  

  Tahar Rahim
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• I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

  

  Vidal Sassoon
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• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  

  Vince Cable
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• My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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• About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.

  

  Dan Hicks
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• I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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• You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
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• But I want to do good work, after this series.

  

  Jackie Cooper
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• Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

  

  Flavor Flav
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• The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
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• I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.

  

  Sadie Jones
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• The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
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• Whatever you are, be a good one.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.

  

  Vince Cable
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• I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself. People who are concerned with their looks and what they're wearing and how they present themselves tend to have less of a sense of humor about themselves.

  

  Taran Killam
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• When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.

  

  Maria Sharapova
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• Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.

  

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
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• Action gives power. Entire harmony pervades the universe of God. All the heavenly beings are in constant activity; and the Lord Jesus, in His life work, has given an example for every one.

  

  Ellen G. White
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• My characters always like themselves.

  

  Amy Sedaris

• To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

  

  James E. Rogers
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• If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.

  

  Marcus du Sautoy
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