I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think.
Jonathan Evison
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I learn lessons with every interview I give.
Jenny Lewis
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Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.
Jeffrey Wright
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I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.
Robert Redford
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A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Robert Half
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That's usually what I indulge in if I play some games - pinball.
Matt Hardy
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But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.
Michael Gruber
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When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.
Amy Poehler
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I grew up in a loving household.
Amir Khan
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick
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I found my style in my aunt's attic. She hoarded all her '60s clothes there, along with the tiaras she'd won as a beauty queen, and I'd steal her wedding dress to wear around town.
Roisin Murphy
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Media is so weird; everything is so accessible now. It used to be this thing where, if you did something on 'This American Life,' this predates me, but when David Sedaris did it, for example, it would just play, people who heard it heard it, and then the book would come out a year later, and people would be like, 'Ahh, I kind of remember that.'
Mike Birbiglia
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