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I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.
Written by Lee DeWyze
I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.
Written by Michelle Pfeiffer
If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.
Written by Dalai Lama
I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be.
Written by Nicola Sturgeon
I give my work to my wife first to read. Then, I try to find new people who haven't read my work before, to get a new perspective.
Written by Owen King
I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
Written by Zhang Zhidong
It's important for me to talk about my life as a gay man, not gay themes per se, in my work.
Written by Tituss Burgess
Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
Written by Camille Paglia
'Thank you' is often an admission that you needed something that wasn't being fulfilled or you couldn't do on your own, so you needed someone else. There is also guilt. We think, 'Well, too much time has gone by, and it doesn't matter,' but it does. It always matters.
Written by Elizabeth Banks
I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
Written by Tracy Chapman
In school, my favourite class was when we were given a subject for an essay on which we could freewheel. And poetry: I've always written it and loved the way words interact, in meaning and in sound.
Written by Stephen Hough
I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - personally, I wasn't ready to get out there. I don't know. It was a pop group. Not like the Spice Girls, but when you don't have any control over anything, it's disheartening.
Written by Tika Sumpter
I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.
Written by Tina Fey
You think that if you are the best actor, you deserve the most or if you are the biggest star, you deserve the most. That race just isn't important to me.
Written by Josh Hartnett
When the economy goes sour, there are three different kinds of restaurants that do well: the smaller-scale neighborhood restaurants that don't ask much of you; those that have banked enormous goodwill by offering great value during the boom; and those with proven records of excellence, a sure thing.
Written by Danny Meyer
Nat King Cole was a really big influence.
Written by Bryan White
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
Written by Thomas Szasz
I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence - and suddenly, I was finding the aesthetic and formal concerns I'd always associated with fiction: storytelling, form, the medium, character. That kind of shocked me.
Written by Tom Bissell
Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.
Written by Tamron Hall
Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.
Written by L'Wren Scott
The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
Written by M. Night Shyamalan
My go-to shoes for red-carpet events are usually always black, but I mix between my pointed stilettos and platform heels.
Written by Katherine Schwarzenegger
Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.
Written by Judith Malina
Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those - in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed.
Written by Joseph Brodsky
It's a well-known fact that the TV camera adds 10 pounds. I don't want to say that I've been calling my Jenny Craig consultant a lot, but I'm pretty sure I'm the first spokesperson whom they've considered filing a restraining order against.
Written by Ross Mathews
Our initial idea with Stripe was that for people like us - those building apps and websites - it was incredibly difficult to take payments. So with an open mind, and maybe a useful lack of knowledge about the industry, we started building a payment product.
Written by John Collison
I don't want to get too detailed and personal, but my parents got divorced when I was about nine. A lot of that had to do with my dad being on the road and that disconnect.
Written by Thomas Rhett
I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
Written by Malcolm X
Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly.
Written by Dmitry Medvedev
I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.
Written by Patrick Chan

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