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I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes.

Rakim

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LifeKnowledgeReadingSelfMy Life

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

Matthew Rhys

ThinkRealityPerfectHeadSpyWell

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.

John Tesh

WorkGoodGreatYourselfThinkYou

When I was dancing, whether it was the music or the story, the question was 'Why am I doing this piece, and why am I dancing?' It is exactly the same when you are acting. You have a very close relationship with your body movement. You have to find the physicality of your character.

Sofia Boutella

MusicCharacterRelationshipStory

'Downton Abbey' has become this huge thing, and I really enjoy the success of it, but I sometimes find myself on the outside looking in, which is sort of a healthy way to look at it so you don't get too caught up in it.

Michelle Dockery

SuccessMyselfLookingEnjoyLook

You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how social change happens: you call it out. People had to call out child labor. People had to call out, 'Hey time's up; we need to vote. We live in this country.' People had to call out 'time's up' on enslaving people, you know.

Debra Granik

ChangeLiveTimeChildPeopleYou

I've always had a big personality. I was trickier as a kid. I behaved erratically instead of consistently. I would have tons of friends, and then I would have no friends. I'd be with the cool girls, then the uncool girls. I migrated from group to group because I was bored or people got bored with me. I was very intense.

Chelsea Handler

PersonalityPeopleMeCoolFriends

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

Clifton Fadiman

NothingHappenSlowlyMakingVery

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

Brad Grey

WorkLearnYouTryContentOut

It's very easy to get excited about a job, but it's a big commitment because you do it and then you have to live with it when it's finished. It's forever in your section in the video store. It's you. It's almost like deciding who you have a child with.

Bridget Fonda

LiveCommitmentJobChildEasyYou

If the party of Lincoln wishes to become the party of intolerance, selecting Trump to be its presidential candidate is a good way forward.

Peter Bergen

GoodForwardPartyWishesBecome

Making a movie about the love between two women was really a tribute to the lesbian people in my life, my dear friends who are seminal in my life.

Todd Haynes

LifeLoveWomenPeopleMy LifeTwo

I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy.

Rick Pitino

BusinessExperienceBetterYearDown

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