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No one is free who does not lord over himself.

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Expand

• Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Think

• Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • Believe
  • Father

• Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Proud
  • Yes
  • Peru

• I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Women
  • Always
  • Child

• Have the courage to act instead of react.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Courage
  • Act
  • React

• It is a great honor to become Executive Producer of 'Frontline.' David Fanning's mentorship and partnership over the past fifteen years has been extraordinary. I am inspired by his legacy and honored to guide 'Frontline's future.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Great
  • Future
  • Past

• As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Loved
  • Bird
  • View

• Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Good
  • Art
  • Always

• The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Inspiration

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Hole

• I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Organization
  • Room

• My favorite season was when I wrote every morning for three or four hours, then I would go and teach my classes at school, come home to my family and hang out with them, have dinner, and then, after everyone was tucked in, I would prepare for my classes the next day.

  

  Cynthia Voigt
  • Family
  • School
  • Home

• I do not support a federal minimum wage. I think every state has a different economy, a different cost of living. I don't believe that's the role of the federal government.

  

  Joni Ernst
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Support

• Cranberry Ale! Cranberry NUT CRUNCH FUCKING ALE! Cranberries and beer do not go together! One's for bladder infections, one's for getting DRUNK!

  

  Denis Leary
  • Together
  • Drunk
  • Beer

• In Korea, the director has the final word. If the director makes a decision, that decision is final. In Hollywood, every decision needs to go through the producer, the studio, and sometimes even the main actor. There is a certain procedure that needs to be followed.

  

  Kim Jee-woon
  • Decision

• As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Want
  • Free
  • Coffee

• No one is free who does not lord over himself.

  

  Claudius
  • Free