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I feel trapped in my body. I want to be like like Scarlett Johansson in 'Lucy,' when she unlocks everything within her - I want to do that. I want to be the alien in 'Arrival' - a spitty, infinite-time-loop creature.

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FeelBodyAlienWantTrappedShe

A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

GoodStoryNewSidesTellReaders

There are so many miserable people out there who have not fulfilled their dreams. I believe you should do something that you love.

John Tesh

LoveDreamsPeopleBelieveYouOut

I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.

Tom Snyder

LoveVoiceMy OwnNeverAlwaysOwn

When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As a consequence, I couldn't cope with the real world and real people very well. That in itself became life threatening, so I had to stop drawing so much and learn how to cope with people.

Robert Crumb

LifeLivePeopleWorldLearnStop

One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter schools. Charter schools are public schools with site-based governance.

Jared Polis

EducationHelpLegislativeSuccessful

Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data.

Jonathan Zittrain

TreatSearchDataPersonalOthers

I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.

Jon Johansen

WorkJobEndHandsSoftwareNiche

In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.

Brunello Cucinelli

BeautifulEyePhoneOfficeHimHe

Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.

William Hamilton Maxwell

MeExecutionWorseWitnessBilling

I'm like this. When I feel something, I want to do something, I do it - I just do it. So I'm like this also in my life: if I want to wear some crazy clothes, I put it on.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

LifeCrazyFeelMy LifeClothes

The expression of divinity is in variety.

Sheri S. Tepper

VarietyExpressionDivinity

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

Nicolas Berggruen

MyselfInterestingEnvironmentWealth

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