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		We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kurt Vonnegut
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hari Kunzru
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ian Mckellen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'Awake' was just the most beautiful show. For most of the shooting, we didn't know if they were going to air. You never knew. We were just trying to make it the best it could.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daniela Bobadilla
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alison Sweeney
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kaitlin Olson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don't quite get it. Guys who just don't quite get it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bruce McCulloch
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lamar Alexander
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jess Row
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I actually went to some Gamblers Anonymous classes, and I sat there for three or four of them, and I'm trying to figure out what I have in similarities with these other people, and I could never find anything. It just seems like it wasn't the right place for me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Pete Rose
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Fat Joe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In the past, I had a knee-jerk approach to work, and it showed on screen. I was doing movies for the wrong reasons - trying to juggle dates, do too many guest appearances, take up projects under pressure or for emotional reasons.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Salman Khan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is trying to be an MC?' Like, you can MC, but if you're not trying to be a better person, learn and apply that to your MCing, then how far do you think you're really going to go?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Raekwon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Damien Chazelle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Our music is a get-up music. Get you up music, uplift your spirit. That's what I'm trying to give you.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
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		The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Harold Bloom