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Growing up, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio.

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• I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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• The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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• But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

  

  H. Rap Brown
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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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• I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

  

  Vince Gill
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• My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.

  

  Zendaya
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• What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
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• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
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• Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.

  

  Kat Dennings
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• Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.

  

  Pat Cadigan
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• My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.

  

  Damon Wayans
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• Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• You just have to speak up. You just have to say, 'I would like to do this,' and it's amazing what people who listen can do for you.

  

  Jim Parsons
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• Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

  

  Marlon Brando
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• I think different games have a different chemical release in your brain as far as reward goes. I like making puzzle games, just because I know I'm kinda good at it, and they really are superfun to work on.

  

  Kim Swift
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• The people with pets talk to them, they're less isolated and their lives are different with an animal by their side.

  

  Karen Allen
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• Growing up, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio.

  

  Claire Foy
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