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I was living in my lovely little two-bedroom flat in north London... and suddenly, I couldn't ju... KATE WINSLET
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If I had millions and millions and millions of dollars, I'd leave a large portion to the 42nd St... FRANK MCCOURT
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I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and... DENIS LEARY
I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end... JIM DALE
When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that v... JIMMY REID It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina ...
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I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn'... JIM CARREY Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made ...
FLORENZ ZIEGFELD
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Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet ... JULIA QUINN
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GATTLIN GRIFFITH
No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that... TUCKER MAX It's funny: most people who recognize me on the subway and stuff - it's much more they think...
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Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. A... MAISIE WILLIAMS
Half of my family is in Los Angeles, so my cousin was the first person to play me, like, Snoop Dogg,... JILLIAN HERVEY
I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But... KRISTEN STEWART My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now...
SAMIRA WILEY
It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were askin... EMILY PROCTER
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I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as t... ANGELINA JOLIE
My brothers used to call me Bob. They'd laugh at me, and I didn't get it. I'm 13 years o... MICHAEL STRAHAN
When I was very young in London, I had a bank account, which didn't have a great deal in it. I s... PETER MAYLE I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to o...
NINA BAWDEN
The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, C... MARTIN SCORSESE When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, l...
DANNY BONADUCE Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly...
FKA TWIGS It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided my...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH
I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and ... TOM FORD
Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'... B. B. KING When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it ab...
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If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because t... PATRICK WILSON
I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd w... FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it w...
J. D. VANCE
I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, act... ELIZABETH GILBERT My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric ...
RACHEL TUCKER
I always look back at when I didn't have a dream, when I didn't have a spirit. I didn't ... BOB BEAMON
I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on w... GARY ROSS
Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make ... ADAM SANDLER I remember when I was at the first showing of 'John Dies at the End' at Sundance, and I was ...
PAUL GIAMATTI
As soon as I walk outside, I get depressed. If I see a dog, I'll get upset about how much it mus... CAZZIE DAVID
I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teac... ANDREW SHUE
The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There... STEPHEN COLBERT
I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything els... NEIL GAIMAN
My greatest moment as a jock occurred when I was 14 and playing punch ball in front of my house on A... JERRY REINSDORF
My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days ... XAVIER RUDD I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real...
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I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the... TED SARANDOS If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have abou...
ANDY SAMBERG
I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I f... LANCE BASS I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were s...
WENDY LIEBMAN It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn'...
DANIEL ELLSBERG In college, I had a crush on one of my professors. I used to bat my eyelashes and coo at him. He did...
NAVI RAWAT
When I was a kid, nobody in my family had a car. And I didn't have many toys. The only toys I ha... DMX
I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd lov... DANIELA BOBADILLA I didn't actually grow up in London.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very... GAYLE FORMAN I can't imagine actually singing on this show like I did on 'Felicity', but it would be ...
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CHARLIE HADEN
I didn't leave Wall Street because the work was against my nature - I do have a pretty good head... CHANG-RAE LEE
My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' call... PAMELA ANDERSON It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was ...
CALISTA FLOCKHART And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In thos...
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J. D. VANCE
Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comi... SANJEEV BHASKAR What's lacking is a declaration from Madrid like the one made by Downing Street. That will be a diff...
GORKA KNORR
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. 
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When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I se... 
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straigh... 
There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used ... 
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal. 
That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on! 
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and... 
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. 
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as i... 
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyo... 
It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that ar... 
I've never been afraid to fail. 
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It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a doubl... 
Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than... 
Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Net... 
What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, esca... 
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle... 
You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. 
Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents. 
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and mo... 
Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in o... 
The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong t... 
The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o... 
You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A l... 
No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother. 
I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the... 
The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor... 
The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow... 
With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time... 
Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around. 
I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be... 
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us. 
I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a... 
I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon. 
You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba... 
As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:... 
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco... 
Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the vari... 
My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st... 
In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm... 
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an ho... 
Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into ab... 
Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of ge... 
I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudo... 
I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth. 
I got a Cadillac Escalade. Put some rims on it, threw a couple TV's in there, and installed a sy... 
Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic ... 
The big turn in the late '90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. ... 
I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like... 
Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now ... 
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I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and th... 
The lifespan of any show is to end in cancellation. 
We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass throug... 
I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both... 