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		So here's to the girls on the go
Everybody tries.
Look into their eyes,
And you'll see what they know:
Everybody dies.
A toast to that invincible bunch,
The dinosaurs surviving the crunch.
Let's hear it for the ladies who lunch
Everybody rise!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Stephen Sondheim
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's going to come down to executing, trying to keep guys off balance and disrupting timing. That's something you can do regardless of how many times you face a lineup or face certain hitters.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jake Arrieta
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one. … In return for picking up one of my books, I'm trying to give them value for their money. … the goal of writing any book is to create the illusion that what you are reading is reality and you're part of it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Clavell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		So one day, in a fit of trying to do something different, I just dyed my hair dark brown and got my first role a week later, after which I thought: 'People are closed-minded, man! Like a different hair colour changes everything!'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Emma Stone
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm always trying to make movies that are better than the ones that we've made before. We don't always succeed at doing that by any means, but we're always trying to raise the stakes, raise the bar, make the movies better, and that's hard.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jason Blum
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ali Landry
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me 10 minutes at the end of class every Friday to present whatever I wanted. A lot of the time, I did an Andy Rooney impression. I would sit at her desk, empty it, and just comment on what was in there.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andy Daly
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Trying to show people something they haven't really seen before can get a lot of push-back.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Melanie Scrofano
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I am not afraid of beauty, unlike most artists today. The pollen, the milk, the beeswax, they have a beauty that is incredible, that is beyond the imagination, something which you cannot believe is a reality-and it is the most real. I could not make it myself, I could not create it myself, but I can participate in it. Trying to create it yourself is only a tragedy, participating in it is a big chance.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wolfgang Laib
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Once I moved to L.A., there was a dark moment of trying to keep up with the girls I thought were pretty. Until I realised that's the stupidest thing you can do because people are so pretty in L.A.!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Amy Adams
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Ruskin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jim Henson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kenneth Lonergan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I find the roller-coaster ride of auditioning most challenging. It's always about putting yourself out there, being rejected, and then getting back out there and trying again.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jenn Proske
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Adrian Rogers
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase - everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood...
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				J. G. Ballard
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Of course, I'm trying to be No. 1.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Evonne Goolagong Cawley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Daughtry