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One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different from the others, is that even though they play around with all the classic tropes of art-damaged angst-noise perv-rock, they exude a totally cheery and boyish enthusiasm onstage, goofing around with their keyboards and beatboxes.

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'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me.

Joanne Froggatt

CharacterJobMeLookingStreet

Chris Johnson was outstanding early.

Jeff Fisher

EarlyOutstandingJohnsonChris

Popularity is given to you, and if you think that just because you're really popular you're a better person, it could be a real crash when you find the popularity goes down.

Amy Tan

Better PersonThinkBetterYouDown

The only respect you should have is the one you earn.

Stellan Skarsgard

RespectYouEarnOnlyShould

Empathy goes a long way, for sure. We cannot have healthy, loving, mutually respectful relationships without it. But we're not psychic. At least I'm not. And intuition can only take you so far, especially when a person's sense of safety, comfort, and self-worth hangs in the balance.

Tony Goldwyn

BalanceEmpathySafetyLongYou

A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

Robert Fisk

GoodYourselfI AmYouLookGo

I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.

Ronald D. Moore

MistakesSmartLearnEnoughYouGo

We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high music - important music - and shallow music. And I think that's dangerous, because there's often a mix of both.

Joshua Bell

MusicDeepThinkYouDangerousKnow

I was raised by my Depression-era grandma who taught me to use what you've got: Waste not, want not!

Christina Tosi

MeYouWantI Was RaisedGotWaste

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

Chris O'Dowd

OpportunitiesEnoughLineBottom

I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.

Peter Capaldi

PeopleAlwaysThroughBeenCracks

Between the uprightness of my conscience and the hardness of my lot, I know not how either to show respect to my feelings or to the times. The bitterness of my mind urges me at all hazards to speak what I think, whereas the necessity of the times prompts me, however unbecomingly, to keep silence. Good God! Which way shall I turn myself?

Thomas Becket

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