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The one thing I'm not tempted to ever do is stop working. Retirement would be too tough for me. As a workaholic and an insomniac, I identified with my subject, General Dumas, who, according to field reports, would ride on patrols without sleep sometimes for two nights on end before going into battle - and winning.

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I now have a plan - I haven't had a plan up until this year.

Joan Severance

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Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

John Dingell

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I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

John Catsimatidis

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I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

John Cusack

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I think we give too much importance to artists talking about the art and the film and the books and the plays and the music - it's done; the material is there. But we talk about it because it's part of the game. I'm comfortable with it.

Jean-Marc Vallee

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The last time Congress seriously addressed the notion of creating a way to keep track of America's guns was 1968.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.

Mia Wasikowska

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Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

John Yoo

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I don't think gender even exists.

Amandla Stenberg

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Even people that are close to me or people that are acquaintances... The only question I get now is, 'How is music going?' It's an overpowering quality of my life now, the fact that I write songs. It's weird to navigate what that means socially.

Lucy Dacus

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I typically work out 20-30 minutes every morning to get the day started.

Logan Green

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When you make a pilot, you've never seen the show before; you don't know what it is.

Jonathan Krisel

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