The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Douglas William Jerrold
Recitation: by Male by Female
I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.
Matt Frewer
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I don't know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who's better than the other person shouldn't be part of why we're doing this job. It should be about entertaining people.
Anna Paquin
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No one understood why I would wanna be behind the camera, not in front of the camera, and so no one took me seriously, and people said, 'Oh, well, this is just a hobby isn't it?' and I said, 'No, I really love this. I wanna make this my career,' and I did not have a lot of support at all for many years. People just kind of thought it was a joke.
Amanda de Cadenet
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Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.
Tsai Ing-wen
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All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.
Mo Ibrahim
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I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.
Dionne Warwick
TimePeopleMeFeelLongLook
America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value.
Dennis Prager
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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
Christopher Lasch
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It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.
Chris Martin
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A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached.
Art Bell
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I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.
Paula Radcliffe
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Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.
Marilyn Hacker
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