Lawrence Bender Quotes

Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!

Lawrence Bender

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You are a black goddess when you come out the salon.

Jenifer Lewis

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Comedy, I'm still in awe of. I think you need a comic genius somewhere in the mix. It's got to be the actor or someone. But the 'comic genius' actors are the darkest people on the planet - and that kind of scares me!

John Hillcoat

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You come out of your MFA program with a cogent clutch of stories, trying to get an agent interested, and she or he admits these are quality, sure, but this agent actually needs something the publisher can make money on. So you get kind of bullied by the market into writing a novel.

Stephen Graham Jones

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I like the thought of gaining revenge over WBC light-heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, who beat me in 2013.

Tony Bellew

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I slipped through every school I went to without leaving a trace. I was in no team; I was never a prefect. I was totally mediocre - well, I probably still am - but at places like Summer Fields and Eton, it's all about sport and doing your bit, and I always preferred to watch telly or read a book than run round a field.

Tom Parker Bowles

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No surprise here: Pop music is by far the most conservative art form there is.

Russell Smith

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I'm not getting dressed to make a scene or, like, 'Oh, look what Westbrook has on today!' If I like something, I'll put it on. I go to the game. That's how it is.

Russell Westbrook

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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

Mary Augusta Ward

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I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.

Jason Alexander

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I watch my diet and I eat right, but I am not on a strict diet.

Jose Aldo

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My first ever sex scene in a movie was in 'Superbad.' Because I was 17, for legal reasons my mother had to be on the set. It was real awkward, but it worked out OK because when I watched the movie with her, the sex scene wasn't awkward because she'd been right there when it happened.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

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I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.

Clay Aiken

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