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		For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Craig Claiborne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yakov Smirnoff 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Weisz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				C. Wright Mills 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fernand Leger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ophelia Lovibond 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barry Jenkins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ireland Baldwin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The blood pigment haemoglobin is a compound which can be split by diverse methods into its constituents, pigment and protein. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hans Fischer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vince Lombardi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Aaron Eckhart 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Frances Beinecke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mac Davis