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		I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Garth Nix 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ornette Coleman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Heughan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Middleton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karl Rove 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Napoleon Hill 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Nothing can make you more humble than pain. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry Flynt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laura Wade 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Katarina Johnson-Thompson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barack Obama 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harland Williams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fidel Castro 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maelle Gavet 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		A thrint was master over every intelligent beast. This was the Powergiver’s primal decree, made before he made the stars. So said all of the twelve thrintun religions, though they fought insanely over other matters. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry Niven 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I admit to occasionally sharing the financial hysteria of the rest of the country, the urgency to save more for the family in case you can't write any more. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jim Harrison 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abraham Lincoln 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't think I'm ever going to retire from stand-up, but what I have retired from is working the road every week. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jeff Garlin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack White 
			 
			
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		I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Garth Nix