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• I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.

  

  Oren Peli
  • History
  • Know
  • Find

• I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Fun
  • Water
  • Sports

• I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Women
  • Never
  • Played

• My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Me

• Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Know
  • Fly

• I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • May
  • Deep
  • Sad

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Love
  • Amazing
  • Director

• I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • School
  • She
  • Friends

• Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

  

  Karen O
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Three
  • Take

• I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Food
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • People
  • Work
  • Game

• High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • High
  • Nature
  • Struggle

• You still slightly down that you're ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That's the territory of being an actor. It's like anything that's competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Work
  • Like
  • Feel

• If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Go
  • Sell

• The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Revolution

• Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious!

  

  Marion Milner
  • Giving
  • Sacrifice
  • Love Is

• There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

  

  Jo Brand
  • People
  • World
  • Rest

• I was pampered by all my father's directors and producers during childhood. But at home, my father made sure I led a normal life.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Home
  • Father

• If you eat like crap all the time, quite frankly, you're going to feel like crap.

  

  Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
  • Time

• Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.'

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Wonder
  • Feelings
  • Brother

• I think I'm a focus for international attention.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Attention
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