When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
Julian Barnes
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Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
John Hurt
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Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.
Matt Damon
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I'm not trying to do anything except entertain America.
Andy Kindler
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I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.
Stefan Edberg
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One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.
Stephanie Beacham
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I don't think there is ever objective biography. Our vision of our subject is always shaped by who we are. So I do, of course, think the biographer's view is always something to keep in mind.
Stacy Schiff
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Change is painful, and people are always reticent to accept a lot of pain.
Stanley A. McChrystal
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In the western world, you can go out, take a boat trip to the Caribbean and so forth, and buy good things with your own money. But the Russian people with rubles cannot do that.
Masatoshi Koshiba
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It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.
Michelle Pfeiffer
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Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'
Mo Ibrahim
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
Lucretius
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Snoop Dogg is hilarious. T.I. is really funny. Who else? 50 Cent is hilarious. Jay-Z is funny. I've met him, but he's funny in interviews. He was funny when I saw him, too. Ludacris is funny. Everybody is. Rappers are funny, a lot of them.
Jay Pharoah
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