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I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

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• I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

  

  Kate Thompson
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• The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.

  

  Laura Dern
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• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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• I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.

  

  Oliver Tambo
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• I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.

  

  Parker Posey
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• With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.

  

  Adam Arkin
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• The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

  

  Fanny Kemble
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• Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

  

  Ed Helms
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• Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
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• I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

  

  Rachel Miner
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• If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.

  

  Valorie Curry
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• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
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• My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
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• Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again. When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Incredible. Incredible. I told him he looks handsome. His face has thinned down.

  

  Lynn Anderson
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• We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
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• 'I am the one who stood beside you and smiled,Thinking your face so strangely young . . . 'I am the one who loved you but did not dare.'

  

  Conrad Aiken
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• I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

  

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