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I started when Chris Rock did 'Bigger & Blacker.' I used to watch that before I went onstage as inspiration to get hype, but I noticed I started taking on his cadence and talking like him. I was also doing the New York-style comedy thing, which was angry and annoyed. I was creating a persona instead of trying to embrace my own.

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I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.

Joe Biden

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I want to protect consumers from their government.

Jeb Hensarling

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I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasn't a big solo artist.

Merry Clayton

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I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

Skylar Laine

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I think it's really hard to draw a hard-and-fast line and say 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' doesn't count as science fiction or fantasy. Or at what point do we say mythology is not fantasy, so reading mythology when you're young does not count as an exposure to fantasy?

Robin Hobb

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I really want to do a sci-fi movie.

Rohan Chand

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TechCrunch evolved on the Web as a new way of presenting the news on the Web.

Mike McCue

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It's hard to make a joke out of someone that's a joke.

Michelle Wolf

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I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the concept of old money.

Lorde

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Sweet things happen. They still do.

Dianne Wiest

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I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

David Whyte

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The techniques of contemporary poetry are probably the techniques of your daily life. I don't know a single person who goes into the grocery store and thinks in complete sentences. We often think in fragments, we think in little lists, we think in non-sequiturs, we think in feelings that may not match up with each other.

Brenda Hillman

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