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Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had gone away to fight in the Second World War, he had come back. He had switched to sociology because he wanted to understand how people could do these terrible things to each other. And he did a little bit of economics on the side.

Tim Harford

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When I'm reading a script and I see the word 'lumbering' I go, 'Oh, that's probably the part they want me to read for.'

John Carroll Lynch

MeReadingGoWantSeeI See

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

Maya Lin

ThinkYouLostConclusionsOwnCome

If I follow someone, and I don't like their Twitter feed, I unfollow them and often have a changed opinion of the person.

Meghan McCain

OpinionSomeonePersonFollowFeed

Take a look at all of them: Marichal, Jenkins, Spahn - what do you think made them successful? They conditioned their arms by pitching more, not less, starting from when they signed their first contract.

Tom Seaver

ThinkYouLookMoreFirstPitching

I'm just willing to do a lot, take a lot, and force people into a fight. That's something a lot of people aren't ready to do. Some people are.

Robbie Lawler

FightPeopleReadySome PeopleForce

Definitely, life changes as it goes on a little bit, for sure.

Rob Gronkowski

LifeLife ChangesChangesLittleBit

I've always been very talkative, very chatty, quite hyperactive. I grew up with a lot of cousins, and most of them were boys. Four in particular and I were the demolition squad. Havoc.

Ruth Negga

SquadCousinsAlwaysUpBeenFour

There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

GoodPressureShowRegardless

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Christian Nestell Bovee

YourselfDoubtYouWillNeverWhom

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

Claire Tomalin

PeopleBehaveBadlyWriters

Sometimes the game does not go for you, no matter how much you try, but I do what I can and leave other people to their opinions on how I played.

Philippe Coutinho

PeopleGameOpinionsYouI CanGo

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.

Peter Levine

BudgetNothingPencilBuyDeveloper

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