My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.
Junot Diaz
Recitation: by Male by Female
Inherently in us as Irish people, wherever you are in the world, when you hear an Irish accent, it's like a moth to a flame. There's a real personable pride and camaraderie about being Irish.
Jessie Buckley
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A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
Jet Li
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As a kid, I really, truly believed that if you swallowed a watermelon seed, something really bad was going to happen.
Stephanie Beatriz
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Whatever success I have found has been a collaborative effort of people helping out and opening their minds and being accepting and celebrating who I am.
Troye Sivan
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The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research.
Rosa DeLauro
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I have a really amazing fan club, it's contemporary but it's a little bit old school. There's a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people.
Martina McBride
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I always say if you put someone from a small town into a big city for ten years, then when they go back, they'll act differently. Are they the same person? Sure, but do they act different? Yeah.
Mike Colter
CitySmallSomeoneYouSmall Town
I don't go anywhere without my iPod, laptop and at least one book.
Michael Urie
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When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just how oppressive that kind of puritanical mindset can be.
Mohsin Hamid
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I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.
Lorraine Toussaint
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It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially.
Judy Blume
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Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.
Chip Esten
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