It's sometimes the random people that say things that aren't so nice, but that's okay.
Matt Emmons
Recitation: by Male by Female
I was enamored of New York City intellectual life and was really into Philip Roth because I was raised by self-loathing Midwesterners who were from southern Illinois, who felt like fish out of water when they came to the East Coast when I was a kid.
Meghan Daum
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The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.
Jeff Vandermeer
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What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.
Robert Duvall
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I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.
Martin Scorsese
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I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.
Jay-Z
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I'm obsessed with jackets.
Domenico Dolce
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We listen to the entrepreneur. We try to have a fine tuning fork to understand what they are saying and whether that makes sense and know it when we see it. We don't try to do too much predicting.
David Sze
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I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.
Bryan Clay
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I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.
Ashton Eaton
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It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me.
Alice Barrett
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Hey 'Bachelor,' take notes! Trusting one another and sharing a journey to health leads to lasting relationships!
Alison Sweeney
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When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
Paul Wellstone
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