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		I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Salman Rushdie
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, 'Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.' As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rachel Bloom
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kara Swisher
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edie Falco
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Walter Kirn
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I consider myself a good layman's cook. Ninety percent of the time, I'm successful with what I set out to make, and I can improvise. Yes, I own a mandoline. Yes, we have a Vitamix.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lake Bell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nate Silver
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Haley Joel Osment
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It was important that I got my own voice out there in the world. I'd used it on other people's films, collaborated, and I thought, 'You know, I can do this myself.' That was more important than anything else.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paddy Considine
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vanessa Marcil
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rani Mukerji
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Uma Thurman