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I do like playing smart women who can be sexy and are taken seriously.

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I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.

Jill Scott

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Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.

Robert Gottlieb

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I never want to lose. I hate to lose... But Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times. You can't hit the home run every time you come up to bat.

Roger Ailes

HomeTimeHateYouLoseRun

What I've found is if you get the right characters in the right story and put them in the right setting - and let them go - they tend to do all the exploring of the issues for you. Because people are interesting and political and funny and sad.

Mike Bartlett

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For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.

Mike Davidson

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Ludacris albums are all over the map in terms of overall quality, but as a rapper, he tops out as a hilarious, charismatic guy with a singular voice.

Josh Gondelman

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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Joseph Brodsky

LifePoetryProductionThingsRather

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

Arne Jacobsen

TrainingSchoolThinkYouHardFine

I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

Annie Baker

SilencePeopleTalkingDownPlay

With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.

Sylvester Stallone

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Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.

Peter Orszag

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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

Pearl S. Buck

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