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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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• I don't get dressed up as the character to go audition.

  

  Alan Tudyk
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• Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
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• If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

  

  Chuck Berry
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• I have a go at defenders, and they have a go at me. We argue... Whatever happens on the pitch stays on the pitch.

  

  Diego Costa

• We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and religious vilification.

  

  Denis Napthine
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• Growing up, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio.

  

  Claire Foy
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