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The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

Laini Taylor

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I think working hard at anything when you're young and getting positive results, it's always an incredible feeling to see that.

Jessica Springsteen

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Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

John Deacon

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I got my Equity card at 24 at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, and they asked me to join the company. I was content and happy working in the company there for a long while until I really started to feel as if I hit a bit of a glass ceiling artistically.

John Carroll Lynch

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I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.

Andreja Pejic

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He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record.

Matthew Sweet

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I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

Sidney Poitier

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Iranians call California and Iran 'sister cities;' they're very much alike. Iranians feel at home here and the weather is so close to Iranian weather.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

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After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

Rudolph A. Marcus

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There aren't a lot of supernatural things that I'm scared or super terrified of, but clowns are definitely on that list.

Matt Bomer

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We can't give excessive, unfettered power to a president to act alone, to bind an entire country to a set of principles, a set of rules that the president, him or herself, makes.

Mike Lee

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I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Shorts' or any of my books shelved.

Chris Crutcher

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'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

Anurag Kashyap

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