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When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank.

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BookProblemMysteryYearEarlyOut

I actually bedazzled when I was younger. I totally did that to my jeans.

Jillian Bell

JeansYoungerDidActuallyTotally

I think that we should all be defined by our work and our results.

Jim Breyer

WorkThinkResultsOurI Think

I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.

Joan Didion

ControlWorldRightTypewriterTiny

When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

Jerry Saltz

MusicTimeJoyPeopleWaveSeeing

The reason we like acting is connecting to other people.

Jessica Chastain

PeopleActingReasonConnectingLike

Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

Andrea Bocelli

MusicPurposePeopleCuriosityUp

I'm going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve.

Andrew Mason

WorkValueMeFeelDoingLong

I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.

Max Winkler

MusicMeWritingStartImportantUp

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

John Robert Seeley

LifeBeautifulInterestingMay

That's why actors are so great and why they earn so much money. They take away the anxious necessity to find the right words.

Luke Davies

GreatMoneyWordsFindWhyRight

And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

Jason Reitman

WorkYouPhoneNeverNextStranger

Criticism pretty much follows anything anyone ever does. So, anytime anyone ever writes a song, plays a show, or does whatever they do, there's going to be a certain amount of criticism because that's kind of what happens.

Chris Cornell

SongCriticismKindAnythingPretty

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