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		There is a difference between a great producer and somebody who is a big advocate of your music. Just because you're a big advocate for a band doesn't mean you need to be in the studio with them, and at the same time - we don't need to get into this conversation - you can write a hit, but it might not hit.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Val Kilmer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ted Turner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Zhang Zhidong 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Laura Trott 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Malin Akerman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Walter Kirn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dag Hammarskjold 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gary Hamel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				V. S. Naipaul 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ed Stoppard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Walter Pater 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vijay Mallya