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I got into this thing called the National Youth Theatre, and to me, that was all about the status quo. It seemed to me like 'Downton Abbey' - all the working-class and black people were playing servants, or the gravedigger in 'Hamlet,' and the boys from Eton and posh private schools got Hamlet, all the big roles.

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I often stay in Tokyo's Daikanyama neighbourhood. You can go for a peaceful morning run along the Meguro river, and it is particularly incredible during cherry blossom season.

Joe Gebbia

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You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

Jerry Seinfeld

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It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.

John Avlon

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I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

Jennifer Lynch

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Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.

Andrew Bird

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It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Max Frisch

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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

John Stuart Mill

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There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

Stellan Skarsgard

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It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

Mike Royko

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I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

Mike Tyson

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I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.

Lola Kirke

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I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sorts of different styles of music, I like all sorts of different styles of clothes, I like all sorts of different colors of hair.

Joss Stone

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