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I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.

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• I feel fine as long I'm not running around.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Long
  • Running
  • Feel

• How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • Want
  • You

• The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Important
  • Family
  • Daughter

• I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Think
  • Enthusiasm

• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Doing
  • Direction
  • Group

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
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  • Looking

• I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Fun
  • Chance
  • Acting

• Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Up
  • Want
  • You

• I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Kids
  • You
  • Mom

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Family
  • May

• And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Space
  • Class
  • Mission

• Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
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• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Know
  • Dreaming
  • Expecting

• Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Women
  • Children

• Any sauce whatsoever should be smooth, light (without being liquid), glossy to the eye, and decided in taste. When these conditions are fulfilled, it is always easy to digest, even for tired stomachs.

  

  Auguste Escoffier
  • Light
  • Tired

• When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.

  

  Eric Bana
  • People
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  • Jump

• I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Profound

• Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

  

  Anne Stevenson
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  • Live

• I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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