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I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

Birdy

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I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.

JoBeth Williams

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We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

Stephen Breyer

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What the United States needs to do at this point is reaffirm our commitment that Assad must go and that Iran and Russia cannot be granted a sphere of influence in Syria, and that we will not sit down at the negotiating table to help broker Assad's victory in this fight.

Tom Cotton

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The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Mata Hari

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I grew up in Los Angeles. I watched lots of television; I still watch lots of television.

Martine Syms

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I like 'Donnie Darko;' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.

Mike Birbiglia

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As a child, I just found a lot of things quite difficult. I found school quite overwhelming. There were just too many people. I wish I could have gone to a school with about five people. And if I saw someone bullying someone else, for example - I don't mean because I'm a perfect person, because I'm really not - but I'd always be, 'Well, why?'

Julia Davis

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I am the greatest marital artist in the world.

Judah Friedlander

I AmWorldArtistGreatestAm

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

Joseph Haydn

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Leapfrog innovation - consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation - only happens within a dictatorship. Any time you try to do something really innovative, most people aren't going to understand it until after they experience it. So when you're developing in innovation, you have to be a dictator.

Ashton Kutcher

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I grew up in the countryside riding horses, and I also ride every holiday in Spain, which is where I was born. It's a big part of my life.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

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To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

William Safire

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