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		All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.
	
	  Jill Scott Jill Scott
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		A lot of the things I do are obvious things that for some reason are not done. I could never figure this out. Why don't people do the obvious?
	
	  Peter Saul Peter Saul
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		Was forty, then, too old for work like this?Why should it be? He'd never been afraid-His eye was sure, his hand was steady . . .But dreams had meanings.
	
	  Conrad Aiken Conrad Aiken
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		I think romantic comedies in general are marketed towards women, and I think men are half the romance, so why not have some that are truly from a male point of view.
	
	  Jay Chandrasekhar Jay Chandrasekhar
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		Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.
	
	  Rita Mae Brown Rita Mae Brown
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		There is something about the sameness people like. And what I've tried to do with all the zombie films is purposely make them different. That may be part of why it takes so long for people to see what it's intended to be.
	
	  George A. Romero George A. Romero
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		Nelson wonders why, no matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong – you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into.
	
	  John Updike John Updike
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		Why illustrate a great piece of writing whose very advocacy and evocation and efficacy lies within its very existence as writing?
	
	  Peter Greenaway Peter Greenaway
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		So you don’t love him. Why would you look for
love with a man? How could a man ever understand you?
	
	  Catherynne M. Valente Catherynne M. Valente
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		I do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once I've outlined it, why write the damn book?
	
	  Joe R. Lansdale Joe R. Lansdale
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		You don't want to be in a fight of the year. It takes years off your life. But, it's why fans tune in; it's why people gravitate toward your fights. It's why people want to watch you fight. It's important to get into them, but it's important to try not to get into too many of them.
	
	  Eddie Alvarez Eddie Alvarez
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		We have seen in the past where leaders have not been open-minded or have not been flexible. That's why the people came out to the streets and shouted and chanted for more reforms and more freedoms.
	
	  Ban Ki-moon Ban Ki-moon
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		I was curious as to why a million Americans weren't lining the beaches in boats and with buckets to preserve the life sustaining resource that is the Gulf of Mexico. Personally, as a surfer, I was most sorry for my fellow watermen. Seeing beaches closed due to contamination just broke my heart. If that ever happened in San Diego I'm afraid I might be forced to move.
	
	  Jason Mraz Jason Mraz
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		If global warming is such a bad thing, then why is it taking out all of mankind's competitors? It just seems to me that the less species are out there, killing all our Caribou, the better.
	
	  Zach Braff Zach Braff
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		To paraphrase the philosopher Nietzsche, he who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. I've found that 20 percent of any change is knowing how; but 80 percent is knowing why. If we gather a set of strong enough reasons to change, we can change in a minute something we've failed to change for years.
	
	  Anthony Robbins Anthony Robbins
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		February is for curmudgeons, whinge-bags, and misanthropes. You can't begrudge us one month of the year or blame us for being even crabbier, it's so short. There is nothing good about it, which is why it's so great.
	
	  Lionel Shriver Lionel Shriver
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		From 12-year-old girls to 70-year-old matriarchs, I know hundreds of women who have some sort of body image issue. This is sad and seriously worrying, but it's true, and it's why I feel some kind of social responsibility to do what I can to show a variety of body types in fashion magazines.
	
	  Amanda de Cadenet Amanda de Cadenet
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		You look at Kerry Washington on 'Scandal,' and a lot of the women on that show in general are very strong, and I think we're seeing it more, and I'm excited because when I was doing Dana Gordon on 'Entourage,' there weren't a lot of strong female characters, which is why I think she came out as such a standout character.
	
	  Constance Zimmer Constance Zimmer