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		People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dolly Parton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tom DeLonge
			
			
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		I can't be any more addicted to it than I already am,"Jamie said slowly, as though he'd rehearsed this, and then waiting for a cue Nick obviously had no intention of giving." Think about crack!" Jamie added, clearly struck by insperation. "Yes! It's like I'm a crack addict, and you're my friend the drug dealer who gives me crack for free, and I know you're just trying to be a good friend, but every time I think 'Wow, this crack might be a little bit of a problem for me,' you're there to say, 'Have some more delicious crack.' Am I making sense?" Nick stared."Hardly ever in your life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sarah Rees Brennan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you to think, to perceive and not to take for granted what we think about the world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dan Beachy-Quick
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Steven Tyler
			
			
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		We have never wrapped ourselves up in our own world thinking we are the only people who know what is doing. We listen to other things and see what we would like and what would suit us.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Keren Woodward
			
			
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		My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sarah Polley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jim Gaffigan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Erma Bombeck
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he's thinking about what he's saying while he's saying it, and that's a rare thing in politicians.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Roy Blount, Jr.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Homer Simpson has been more inspirational to me than probably any cartoon character. What he represents, I think, there's a part of that in everybody. There certainly is in me, and I love that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Michael Welch
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Stephen Fry
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Neil LaBute
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You wrong yourself and me by assuming my interest in you is purely physical,” he went on. “I told you I am eager to further our acquaintance. I want to know what you think about things. What you want out of life. What you dream. -Lucien to Alice
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gaelen Foley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have no pride about anything I have done. It's just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain, injury, exhaustion, if that is what it takes. Once I am done, I move on.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Henry Rollins
			
			
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		In this room I have picked which gun was unloaded out of ten options. And then they pulled the trigger on me. I have picked stocks that went on to skyrocket. I have picked which pencil I would shove into Ms. Robertson’s ear until she kicked me out for thinking about it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kiersten White