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		I'd spent my twenties trying to be everything to everybody. I had my family, my straight friends, and I was starting to develop a gay circle of friends. I was seeing some men, seeing some women, and trying to sort it all out.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Furnish
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lauryn Hill
			
			
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		IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Fritz Kreisler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Cameron
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elliott Abrams
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rahm Emanuel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!'... I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Iain Duncan Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm glad I made business investments, because it gave me the confidence financially to make brave choices. If I hadn't done that, I'd still have been trying to play 19-year-olds in films. I know there are other avenues for me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Preity Zinta
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kristin Cast
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Donald Rumsfeld
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When you shampoo your hair, you're trying to get the oil out of your roots, but you really want the rest of your hair to maintain its moisture. When you put coconut oil on the ends, the shampoo gets oil out of the roots, but also protects the ends.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Blake Lively
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I found my style and how I like to do makeup from trying and failing and trying and failing again, and unfortunately, I had to do it publicly to figure it out.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kat Graham
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Patrick Shanley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Zhu Zhu
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Samira Wiley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When you saw Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman doing something, they were acting. It was real acting. Like, they were acting like that person. They weren't like - it wasn't even like they were really trying to go for a laugh, especially in Phil Hartman's case.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Hader
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charlotte Lamb
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Harland Williams