Alexi Zentner Quotes

To map the Governor General's Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful.

Alexi Zentner

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You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.

Jimmy Webb

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When Dee Dee would start singing, he would stop playing the guitar, because he couldn't sing and play at the same time.

Joey Ramone

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You know when you meet somebody and they're just good people? That's Andy Samberg.

Melissa Fumero

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Rehearsals make a huge difference.

John Leguizamo

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When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements.

Robert Kiyosaki

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I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

Anita Diament

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I led the state in defensive interceptions my senior year, with seven in nine games. Then I went to Montana to play basketball and found out quickly that my college career wasn't going to work out how I'd envisioned it.

Jeff Ament

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Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Sophocles

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Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.

Steven Van Zandt

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Ed Miliband is obviously a mild guy. I don't expect him to pretend to be a pugilist.

Robert Webb

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I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

Martin Scorsese

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I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.

Michael Rosenbaum

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