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Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. 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KELIS Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do... VINCE STAPLES I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as... LINDA LAVIN La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v... PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party... JOHNNY DEPP Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON Just because marriage didn't work for us doesn't mean we don't believe in the institutio... SANDRA TSING LOH I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginn... DIANA GABALDON They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with ... 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I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the e... CARROLL SHELBY Most days, we don't get to the 'SNL' studio until noon. On Monday, we pitch the host, an... AIDY BRYANT It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows. DAVID CRYSTAL I'm not the most powerful. I'm not the fastest. I don't have the best arm. I don't h... BEN ZOBRIST Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no... JOYCE MEYER We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We ... STEVE JOBS What is a Man / Woman who does not try and make the World Better? 'KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ' THE MOVIE We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on... MEHMET OZ I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually b... MARGARET ATWOOD The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness,... ANDREW CARNEGIE I don't like any kind of negativity. I try to be good to everyone, whether it's a love, a fr... NINA DOBREV When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we ch... JOYCE MEYER It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don... FRANCES CONROY We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together. DARA KHOSROWSHAHI People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't ... ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you'... LADY GAGA You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife? IAN MCSHANE I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, ... CAMILA ALVES YI think what's cool about 'Scott Pilgrim' is that it shows that there is a superhero wi... ELLEN WONG I don't aspire to be a sex icon, I don't know why anyone would. It's an uncomfortable po... BILLY HOWLE Being the one woman in the room should not be seen as a victory. If there's only one of us in th... KERRY WASHINGTON I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar. DAVID BOWIE If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about... CHARLIE NORWOOD Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So s... FISHER STEVENS if you can't have the one you love, you can love the one you have IRAZ 'DEALOVA' At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a moth... INDRA NOOYI I don't think we'll see a 'Real Housewives of Koreatown' anytime soon, but here'... 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TOM BRADY I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I... BEYONCE KNOWLES I'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can b... DAVID SUCHET I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we k... XAVIER SAMUEL I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say... ADRIENNE BAILON We want 'Doll & Em' to be something we're proud of. We'd love to do another seri... DOLLY WELLS I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I ... NORMAN FINKELSTEIN I'd say to all kids, don't have a tattoo until you're 21. JAMES ARTHUR People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk abo... GALLANT I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacatio... ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. 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