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When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.

Irvine Welsh

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I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

John Ashbery

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Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke.

Jenny Zhang

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It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

John Hawkes

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While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

Andy Kaufman

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I'm a peaceful dude.

Method Man

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If we want to mumble rap, we can mumble rap.

Smokepurpp

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Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.

Rodney Crowell

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I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

Roland Emmerich

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I never wanted to marry Roger Clemens. I wanted him to do right by his family.

Mindy McCready

FamilyNeverRightHimMarryWanted

We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.

Jay Parini

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Do I enjoy the aggression of English football? No. I like to play football. I like to score goals. I like to do things well.

Diego Costa

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Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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