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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

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• The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Work
  • Great
  • Group

• Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Free
  • Peace
  • Independent

• Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Singing
  • I Can
  • Means

• Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Trust

• The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • You
  • English
  • Say

• Siberia is a state of mind.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Mind
  • State
  • Siberia

• There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Stand

• Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Movie
  • You

• Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Literature
  • Said
  • Emotions

• I would say that it's a lot easier, especially if you have a bit of an attention deficit disorder, to be on a movie because you can give it your all, and kill yourself for however many months, and then let it go.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Movie
  • You
  • Attention

• Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • You
  • Speech
  • Breathing

• Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Business
  • Young
  • Lawyers

• I'm a late-night guy.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Guy
  • Night
  • Late Night

• My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Holiday
  • Jazz

• I'd hate to have to leave music, but if I got stuck some place, I would.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Place

• If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Sense
  • Changes
  • Landscape

• Art lies because it's social.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Art
  • Lies

• Everybody knows who Gandhi is. Who knows Jesse Stone?

  

  Jesse Stone

• A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short - a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating - and I'd get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery.

  

  Ellen Forney
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Light

• To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Love

• Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue." Shane shrugged. "He hits like a girl, for a vampire.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Couple

• The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

  

  Ernst Toller
  • Revolution
  • Heartbeat
  • Working People

• Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

  

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