The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
Iain Sinclair
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'Hedwig' was born in '94. I was thinking of a theater piece; Hedwig was one of the characters.
John Cameron Mitchell
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My coaches sometimes say I'm a little bit too competitive. But I want to win, and I feel like we should win every game.
Joel Embiid
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The Internet is pushing us - in good ways and in bad - to realize that the official version of events shouldn't always be trusted or accepted without question.
Jenna Wortham
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But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.
Meghan O'Rourke
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It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
Robert South
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The book I'm working on next, which will be my fifth, returns to literary history. I really do love literary history, and I have plenty more ideas on it.
Matthew Pearl
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As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.
Michael Cunningham
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Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.
Roger Bannister
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I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech.
Loretta Swit
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I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting until I was 17.
Jonas Armstrong
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When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.
DeRay Mckesson
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To create and do something no one else has done before - that feeling beats anything else I've felt.
Dawn Richard
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