Viv Albertine Quotes

During my childhood and teenage years, everything I knew was at war. My mother and father were at war. My sister and I were at war. I was at war with my atypical nature, desperately trying to fit in and be normal. Even my genes were at war - the cool Swiss-German side versus the hot-headed Corsican.

Viv Albertine

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We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

John Eaton

FuturePastNeedOpenEverythingUp

I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can't be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak.

Matthew Davis

VillainYouBadFindHeartbreak

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

Ana Gasteyer

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I catch myself every once in a while doing that weird thing that I see famous people do, where they have sunglasses and hats on and grow out beards thinking that they're fooling people. Dude, you're not fooling anyone: you look just like you.

Sterling K. Brown

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I've always been like the No. 1 Boston hip-hop fan.

Statik Selektah

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Guess what, Beyonce? White people like your music, too. White people buy your songs on iTunes, memorize your lyrics, and admire your talent and beauty. Little white girls wanna be like you just as little black girls do, but instead of that, you'd rather perpetuate the great battle of the races.

Tomi Lahren

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I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I was a speechwriter on 'The West Wing,' so I like that kind of thing. But I never really thought I'd write a book.

Rob Lowe

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Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

Mira Nair

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There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.

Christine Quinn

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I want to make Seoul the front line of the new South Korea. Seoul is sleeping, and I want to wake it up.

Chung Mong-joon

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I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

Nicolas Cage

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It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

Marjane Satrapi

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