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ROBERT TAYLOR I've always loved video games. I played 'Ms. Pac-man' with my dad, and I Ioved 'Gala...
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DANIEL RADCLIFFE I, a singular proper noun, would go on, if always in a conditional tense.
JOHN GREEN I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on t...
AL JARREAU I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 an...
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C. JOYBELL C. My wife and I got engaged in New Hampshire at this lake house that her family's had forever, and...
JIMMY FALLON I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really in the cards.
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DANIEL CORMIER People recognise me and come up to me sometimes, but I'm not like George Clooney.
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ASTRODOST I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and of...
TANIA RAYMONDE II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, s...
NATHALIE KELLEY I don't like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney abo...
STEPHEN MANGAN Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad's foo...
BINDI IRWIN What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, hear...
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BRITT ROBERTSON My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North C...
KARY MULLIS This is too complicated. What about I shoot him? If he comes back, he really likes me.
JOHN RINGO My dad was in these pretty big films that were relevant to my age group. I remember him doing 'R...
GEORGIA KING Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
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MICHELLE FORBES Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then...
WAYNE ROONEY I was so thrilled that George (Clooney) and the show itself got so many nominations.
JAN PASCALE I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dr...
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BILL HUIZENGA I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the...
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GEORGE TAKEI 'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
GEORGE CARLIN I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right...
GEORGE LUCAS I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
INARA GEORGE I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that'...
INARA GEORGE I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
GEORGE OSBORNE In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL