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		In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Frank Ocean
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm extremely blessed. There's a lot of people trying to exactly what I'm doing, but I'm a part of that 9.1 percent that's actually having their dream come true. I just don't take that for granted.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Michael B. Jordan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Danny Fox
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
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		I'm not trying to do anything except entertain America.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andy Kindler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Allan Sloan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		If a subject has a delicate surface to it, you do not want to go charging in there. You need to establish some kind of presence and understanding. I will say, Try to forget I'm here. I won't ask you to pose, I won't ask you to do anything. It's important that I just be allowed to be around, to be present. Photographing people requires a willingness to be rejected. So, I think the best approach is to be honest and direct. Very often, I tell them, You don't know me. There's no reason why you should trust me... the only thing I can promise is that I'll try to do the most honest work I can.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Albert Allard
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm in East L.A., like Mount Washington, Highland Park. There's a little strip that they're gentrifying, trying to make a hip spot, but you go there, and it's just kind of barren. Nobody hangs out anywhere in L.A. There's no loitering in L.A., so I don't know what to do with myself.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				King Tuff
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It should scare every voter in the 5th District that a powerful D.C. lobbyist is trying to install a personal congressman in our part of Connecticut.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elizabeth Esty
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's not that I'm afraid to be tagged with the label of right-wing or even centre-right; I just don't believe it properly describes either the choice that we face politically or what I'm trying to say.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Leo Varadkar
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the throat. There's an emotional thrust to singing that way that I wanted to try on my own. I can't really sing deep and strong like that, but I wanted to just aim in that direction.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Noah Benjamin Lennox
			
			
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		Risks are a measure of people. People who don't take them are trying to preserve what they have. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards, proving where you've been.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paul Arden
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		The mental state I'm in is completely different, but the act of trying to write is the same. I mean, in all instances you try to write good sentences. But in a novel you're free to do whatever you want, and in the autobiographical works you can't make things up.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paul Auster
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can. 'Flight Of The Conchords' was so wonderful because I had a family for two years.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kristen Schaal
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you ask almost any of them, do you stand behind your theory, is this the answer, I think they would almost every one say that no, no, no, I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities. We really don't know what is going on.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Saul Perlmutter
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rachel Grace Held