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I go to bed early, and normally before I do, I have a tea - it's a special tea that my doula gave me, and it takes about 25 minutes to make!

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• Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Why
  • You
  • Interview

• Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Business
  • Tough
  • Idealist

• I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Like
  • Dark

• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Death
  • Winning
  • Dying

• If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Culture

• Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Self
  • Ride
  • Motorcycle

• When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • She
  • Mom
  • Said

• I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Anything
  • Would
  • Watch

• People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Good
  • Sun

• Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Marriage
  • Woman
  • Gay

• I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Hope

• The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.

  

  Edmund White
  • Different
  • Want
  • Talk

• I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Driving

• I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Forget

• On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Poetry
  • Books
  • Living

• People ask me about the decision to transition from fashion to 'Rookie' magazine. But it wasn't a decision. I was 14, and my interests were changing.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Me
  • Fashion

• For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Watch

• It's a great compliment when the beautiful ones laugh.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans that make up the majority of voters. The ones that used to consider themselves now-extinct moderate Republicans. They're up for grabs. And the Democrats have to grab them!

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Up
  • Party
  • Crazy

• If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Tea
  • Spirituality
  • Cups

• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Identity
  • Search

• I go to bed early, and normally before I do, I have a tea - it's a special tea that my doula gave me, and it takes about 25 minutes to make!

  

  Margherita Missoni
  • Tea