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JOHN M SHEEHAN People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really on... GREG NORMAN When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to sto... GERALDINE BROOKS The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you've ... KEVIN HART You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do. CRAIG GROESCHEL You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet. MARK MCGWIRE When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new i... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbel... ADAM MCKAY I've heard it said, "If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy. CRAIG GROESCHEL Can you actually go through life without labeling what happens to you as good or bad? Sure you can. ... SRIKUMAR RAO It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting... JIM ROHN You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. CLARENCE DAY There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex... DAVID BYRNE In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't wan... JOSH TURNER I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can't do. There are opportunities th... DRAKE Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your lif... KEANU REEVES When you have a lot of money, there's so many places you can go to manage your money. But when y... ALEXA VON TOBEL If you're going to buy a suit, don't buy one off the peg if you can afford not to. Go to a t... TAMER HASSAN What happens in improv is you create your own storyline. J. B. SMOOVE You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to ... MARTI NOXON For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. ... ZARA LARSSON Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will he... DIMEBAG DARRELL All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They p... BONNIE BASSLER We have to look to the well-being of the Lebanese citizens and create prosperity in the country, and... NAJIB MIKATI It's hard for an educated woman to turn her head off. That's part of the joy of being a submissive. ... CHERISE SINCLAIR Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words. SYED SHARUKH I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you w... RAY BRADBURY The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that on... TAMAR BRAXTON How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL It's a hard trade-off. You can do without this incredibly powerful technology that makes your system... ANNE THOMAS You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out ... MALCOLM MCDOWELL The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to ... FRANK MCCOURT You can sit in your living room and shout at your television, which makes you feel helpless, you can... GLENN REYNOLDS Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you wer... ED SHEERAN One of the most important things you could actually do in life is to create the best of yourself, to... SUNDAY ADELAJA The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK I can't remember how to cry. SHERMAN ALEXIE Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD As a screenwriter, you have to let go, and you have to hand your baby over and let it go off into th... PHILIPPA BOYENS I overthink everything. I'm very keen there should be a positive outcome. I like to control outc... BERTIE CARVEL Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you... KEVIN HART I'm convinced to do improv. All you have to do is listen to what people are saying to you, and t... RYAN STILES So much of television is incredibly predictable. You watch the first five minutes and you know where... DAVID NEVINS These seniors have been working hard the whole year in practice. That hard work paid off for them to... DUANE WITTER It's not like they just open the gate to Hollywood and off you go - you earn your stripes. I wor... SOPHIE KENNEDY CLARK I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that... GEORGE SAUNDERS You can't take anything personally in this business. Follow your dreams, but there is a lot of c... KENDALL JENNER Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES You have to believe in what you can do and that no one can make you feel bad without your consent. DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't d... STEPHEN VINCENT BENET 'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off.... CATHERINE TATE The time you do get edgy and the time you do want to slack off is the time, boom, there goes your op... STEFON DIGGS Once you tell the bad guys that you have a created a program in which people can get around security... CHARLES PENA To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... You don't contest shots without expending energy. You don't get deflections - unless you wal... DRAYMOND GREEN I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make p... GIADA DE LAURENTIIS It's like a car wreck, you can't take your eyes off it. It's totally gross, totally graphic, you kno... DILLON FOLEY That’s not fair! Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo... JOHN M SHEEHAN In the world of book writing, an author really gets to have control over what he or she writes, whic... LIZ TUCCILLO Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. Yo... CHARLES NELSON REILLY You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You ca... PATTI SMITH It's really hard. Not having someone that you do absolutely everything with everyday - there's not r... ALEXIS WAGGONER Your ears love to hear, so speak to it SOTONYE ANGA In college tennis one of the tough things for a freshman is to deal with the disappointment of fight... BILL POTOCZNY I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is try... RAEKWON You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just de... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the ... ALAN MOORE The idea of me writing something that I'd get to be in as well was not what I saw coming. I do t... ERIN FOSTER You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of compl... ZAHA HADID You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my jo... SAM HUNTINGTON PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's t... GEORGE S. PATTON It's an opportunity to see several hundred people in one working day, which is not obviously somethi... DAN EIKEN Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get cau... BRENDON URIE You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your min... CAITLYN JENNER As a standup comedian, you have to develop a sense of fearlessness. It's really important for yo... JOHN DIMAGGIO Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wag... SOURCE UNKNOWN As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it of... 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That's breathed in the words, "I'm an Englishman." ELIZA COOK I think people hear and feel the genuine nature of my passion for the causes. Specifically, with the... ELIZA DUSHKU Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the pat... ELIZA FARNHAM The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth. ELIZA FARNHAM Who would not rather trust and be deceived? ELIZA COOK My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death. ELIZA DUSHKU There are lots of people whose style I admire, although I'd never dress like them. Chloe Sevigny... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying t... ELIZA DUSHKU Usually, when you do video games, you don't interact with the other actors. You each record your... ELIZA DUSHKU I haven't been watching any TV recently because I've been on the road, but I am an avid '... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I was always on set, I was always working, so my study was down to the bare minimum required. So I a... ELIZA TAYLOR I wasn't into sports when I was younger. I was one of those kids who always tried to get a note ... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I have always been a Peter Blake fan and love street art and graffiti. I really like this street-art... ELIZA DOOLITTLE Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm... ELIZA HAYWOOD I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news.... ELIZA DOOLITTLE We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When th... ELIZA DUSHKU My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone ba... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I love the physical roles. I have the utmost respect for stunt people and stunt doubles, but I like ... ELIZA DUSHKU Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man. ELIZA COOK The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and s... ELIZA COOK The letters from jail are always disconcerting. ELIZA DUSHKU Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
When Memory plays an old tune on the heart! ELIZA COOK There's a star in the West that shall never go down
Till the records of Valour decay,
We must ... ELIZA COOK After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's uni... ELIZA DUSHKU Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man. ELIZA COOK I have nieces and nephews that I love hanging out with, and they think I'm the biggest goof on t... ELIZA DUSHKU There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footstep... ELIZA COOK Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose? ELIZA DUSHKU My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my fat... ELIZA DUSHKU I love Radiohead, which most people don't expect, and I listen to everything from Stevie Wonder ... ELIZA DOOLITTLE Every time I get photographed, it's the legs. So I've insured them for a lot, for £5 m... ELIZA DOOLITTLE As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and jus... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I think that the incredible turnout in places like Dallas is just reflective of the deeply felt sens... ELIZA LEIGHTON I remember having a Mike Tyson T-shirt back in the day that I used to sleep in. And there some thing... ELIZA DUSHKU I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something. ELIZA DUSHKU Joss is doing a little movie called Wonder Woman. I'd slap on the Dukes for that! ELIZA DUSHKU I love leather and it's great to be a bad girl at times. But there is a time and place for everythin... ELIZA DUSHKU Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose? ELIZA DUSHKU The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be contro... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I love it, I love it; and who shall dare / To chide me for loving that old arm-chair? ELIZA COOK How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart ELIZA COOK Only you can define you. No one else's opinions should have any impact whatsoever. ELIZA LEAMY I think I'm generally an upbeat person. Obviously I can get moody, but my whole philosophy is to... ELIZA DOOLITTLE How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart! ELIZA COOK There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps ma... ELIZA COOK Better build schoolrooms for "the boy,"/ Than cells and gibbets for "the man." ELIZA COOK I've featured in some soundtracks in the past, and I would love to do more. I love great soundtr... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I'm reading Sebastian Faulks's 'Birdsong' at the moment. I read it when I was younge... ELIZA DOOLITTLE When I’m away from you I am lost. But, when I’m with you I am lost in you. ELIZA FREED My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist... ELIZA DUSHKU Naivety is cured with time. Stupidity is terminal. ELIZA CREWE When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in 'True Lies', she told me, You need a plan B, because ... ELIZA DUSHKU I really admire the way the fans have joined me in social justice endeavours and the charitable work... ELIZA DUSHKU From all corners of this country ... we are choosing to speak out in a nationwide movement for immig... ELIZA LEIGHTON There are going to be over 100 rallies on Monday. ELIZA LEIGHTON I knew he'd be acquitted; I knew it. ELIZA JOHNSON We are plain people from Tennessee, called here for a little time by a nation's calamity, and I hope... ELIZA JOHNSON Last weekend's meet went really well, but a lot of people weren't running their main events. We sort... ELIZA DAVIS We are excited about how our indoor season went, but we still have a lot more to accomplish in the o... ELIZA DAVIS While the overall picture remains unfortunate, there are bright pockets of hope. In schools where th... ELIZA BYARD As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn i... ELIZA DOOLITTLE Did he bleed? Well, of course. He took on a human form. That always makes them vulnerable, beco... ELIZA VICTORIA All they see is madness. It’s the same with the other men. They see my situation, not me. ELIZA GRANVILLE The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his M... ELIZA HAYWOOD I love dressing up. As kids, my friends and I would dress up as the Spice Girls - Posh Spice was my ... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I like to wear colourful clothes because they make me feel happy: short-shorts with funky tights and... ELIZA DOOLITTLE When I first played live, I would shake with fear, and my voice would tremble. But I do it for the l... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I always loved singing. I was always trying to sing in school plays. I was in every one I could be i... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I wouldn't doubt it for a second if any of these literature teachers had a hand-sculpted custom-made... ELIZA GUBBINS I really don't think plastic surgery is a good idea. People who've had it done don't loo... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I love shopping. I don't go on crazy 'I'm going shopping' sprees; I shop as I go alo... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it. ELIZA DOOLITTLE I don't prepare for wearing a bikini; I always have a bit of a tummy. ELIZA DOOLITTLE My mum taught me that bodies are bodies, and they come in all shapes and sizes - we should be free a... ELIZA DOOLITTLE Young people, our rights and the things we care about, have been taken away because it doesn't r... ELIZA DOOLITTLE I'm a very visually motivated person. Music is always going to be the thing I'm most motivat... ELIZA DOOLITTLE You know, I really am probably one of the sweetest, most sensitive people you'll ever meet. ELIZA DUSHKU If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic somethi... ELIZA DUSHKU I like to have one night on the weekend where I can just cuddle up at my house. ELIZA DUSHKU There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants. ELIZA DUSHKU TV can be a long commitment. ELIZA DUSHKU I think I really thought I was a boy until I was ten years old because my parents divorced when I wa... ELIZA DUSHKU Vain mistaken mortals, who, valuing themselves on names and titles, suppose that the virtues of the ... ELIZA PARSONS I don't really go out partying, but I'm definitely a social butterfly. ELIZA DOOLITTLE By vice, dissipation, and extravagance, [the nobility] have been driven to the most despicable, and ... ELIZA PARSONS Rebecca woke up with her knees hurting and her fingers ice-cold, and the specifics of her life retur... 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