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I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves.

Jon Meacham

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When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.

Jessalyn Gilsig

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I'm sick of seeing my face on television.

Andrew Breitbart

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The most extreme individuals and factions in Islamic countries are now more motivated than ever to kill Americans, and the number of potential terrorists has greatly expanded.

John Olver

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No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.

Maureen Reagan

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It's a really personal thing for me to write a song.

Michael Franti

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I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring.

Jean Dujardin

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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Rupert Brooke

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I definitely don't write with any kind of 'message' or 'lesson,' probably because when I was a child, I used to run a mile from books like that.

Michelle Paver

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I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

Miranda July

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Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.

Christopher McQuarrie

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'Seconds' is all about spaces, and I guess spaces are kind of like people in that they can be haunting and alluring before we even really get to know them, and after prolonged exposure, they can become mundane or oppressive.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

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Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.

Brigitte Bardot

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