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Marie Cornelie Falcon, who lost her voice while performing - singing the line 'Je suis pret' - 'I am ready.' How much more tragic can you get?

Alexander Chee

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I AmSingingVoiceYouReadyLost

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

Jeremy Lin

TimeDayHotelFirst TimeOutside

In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn't have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was.

Jeff Bridges

TimeMeStrongYouCareerHard

I'm happiest on set because I'm not myself. I'm someone else. The moustache, the dinner jacket. It's not me. You're always this sort of double, and it's liberating. Imagine being stuck with yourself... all those doubts.

Jean Dujardin

MyselfYourselfMeDinnerSomeone

The easy way out is to increase taxes.

Tom Graves

EasyWayTaxesOutEasy Way

I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away.

Matt Bevin

HeartChildrenThinkBloodApathy

I chose to wear the hijab at age 16, soon after my family moved from Britain to Saudi Arabia.

Mona Eltahawy

FamilyAgeWearSoonSaudiMoved

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

Joseph O'Neill

LieYouWayDeceptionLittleLike

The success of the film is down to the crew.

Dougray Scott

SuccessDownFilmCrew

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

Constance Marie

LifeGoodRealityComedySometimes

Trump's executive order on refugees, his endless petty feuds - with allies, with judges, with Arnold Schwarzenegger - his constant stream of up-is-down and down-is-up fabrications is outrageous.

Arianna Huffington

JudgesPettyStreamRefugeesOrder

How I show love has always been through food. That, for me, has been the foundation of how I express gratitude for anybody around me.

Antoni Porowski

LoveGratitudeFoodMeFoundation

There's a beautiful thing about experience. There's a beautiful thing about veteran smarts, but there's also a beautiful thing about youth and the potential that creates down the road.

Anne Donovan

BeautifulExperienceYouthRoadDown

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