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It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom ... SIMON KUZNETS The fact that we're getting so many world premiers is, I think, a sign that filmmakers are hearing g...
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When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the fi... GARY CHERONE
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One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten gra... CHANCE THE RAPPER I marvel at him. I wasn't any good anymore at 39 and had to get out. [As a shortstop] he had great r...
MARK GRACE In 1967, London Weekend Television asked me to head up their sports coverage. I got to work with guy...
JIMMY HILL
I've been shooting these video movies, which I'm pretty excited about, but this is my first 35 milli... JULIE DELPY I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to lear...
DONALD FAGEN
My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I... JONATHAN TOEWS The most horrifying thing I ever did was work as a steward on an airplane. I wanted to get hired by ...
JOHN GRANT
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When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did th... JACK MCBRAYER I did a job. I completed my Matric and my Bachelors. I did a marketing job. I worked as a bus hostes...
QANDEEL BALOCH
My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn'... PETE TOWNSHEND I thought everyone was doing a good job. It all broke loose. This is my first time at Daytona, and I...
BRIAN VICKERS I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's superv...
GAIL SIMMONS I was going to give them a first, ... Obviously, I didn't start at a first, but I was going to give ...
RON WOLF I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be di...
LASSE HALLSTROM I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.
PERRY FARRELL Before 'Giant,' I had only ever worked with Michael Greif, Michael John LaChiusa and Kate Ba...
AARON LAZAR It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the ...
BILLY PRESTON The commute was hard at first, but I got used to it. I realized that Greyhound was the cheapest mode...
STEVEN CHEW He did a good job for us, all the guys did a good job. I was just really pleased with how we came ou...
GREG GRANTHAM I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom...
SKYLAR ASTIN
I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I go... ADAM BEACH Coach Carey saw me play for the first time at the state tournament and someone told my dad that he s...
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WENDY FROUD My teammates did a great job finding me. They were just finding me and I was converting. I should ha...
AARON GRAY
One might speak to great length of the three corners of realitywhat was seen, what was thought to ... 
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We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w... 
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. 
I'm a puzzle doer. 
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Everything makes me nervous - except making films. 
Marriage is a great institution. 
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. 
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w... 
I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. 
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart... 
It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. 
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We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ... 
I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all. 
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. 
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. 
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The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab... 
I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask... 
I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say. 
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive... 
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The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it... 
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Minds ripen at very different ages. 
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Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked. 
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You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T... 
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The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good! 
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. 
He who angers you conquers you. 
When I dream, I am ageless. 