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Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

Benmont Tench

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ImpossibleKnowSoundLikeAnybody

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.

Jhumpa Lahiri

BookStoryThoughtSomethingEven

My goal is that a girl will watch 'The Martian' or 'Interstellar' and think, 'I want to be an astronaut or a quantum physicist.' It's important to show powerful women who are good at their jobs because young girls need those examples.

Jessica Chastain

GoodWomenGirlThinkPowerfulGoal

The process to generate energy using the Canadian tar sands is particularly dirty, producing one of the most noxious fossil fuels on the planet and leaving a devastated landscape in its wake.

John Delaney

EnergyProcessLandscapeDirtyMost

I would say, anyone who knows me says they don't envy my life. I've just been through very hard times, yes.

Maye Musk

LifeMeMy LifeEnvySayHard

I tend to work quite a lot during the weekends. My weekend can often be about two hours on Sunday.

John Tiffany

WorkWeekendSundayTwoWeekends

The problem is that once I start on a song and get a rough idea of where I might go with an arrangement, I try dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different things on a song. The bass, the backing guitars, the lead guitars, the keyboards. It's a long process. It's like 100 steps forward and 99 steps back.

Tom Scholz

SongStartForwardProcessProblem

I've always been known in my family as the one who imitates the crazy Dominican relatives.

Rose Abdoo

FamilyCrazyAlwaysRelativesBeen

I auditioned for 'Loving' two years before we started shooting, so in the hopes that I would be playing Mildred, I watched it again. Also it's one of the best documentaries I've seen. I found this couple interminably fascinating; even if I didn't get the part, I just wanted to know more about them and their story.

Ruth Negga

BestStoryLovingKnowMoreTwo

All we're getting from the Democratic majority in Congress and from this White House is more bailouts, more spending, more planned stimulus, more deficits and debt, and the American people have had it.

Mike Pence

PeopleAmericanHouseWhiteDebt

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

Jules Verne

LifePowerCircumstancesOrdinary

I define God as an energy - a spiritual energy. It has no denomination. It has no judgments.

Debbie Ford

GodSpiritualEnergyDefine

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.

Clement Attlee

HouseGlassDaysChampagneFive

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