I wasn't on stage to be worshipped or for people to look up to me. I was with the crowd.
Ian Brown
Recitation: by Male by Female
Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
Andrew Young
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I don't think my body's gonna go to hell if I train for performance. It might change a little and adapt, but I like being strong.
John Cena
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One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.
Meg Rosoff
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The cool thing about 'Sweet Tooth' is that you can bring influences from the underground and alternative people that I read and also bring in some genre influences, too, from movies and comics. And kind of mash it all up. It's a fun project.
Jeff Lemire
FunPeopleCoolSweetYouMovies
I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.
St. Vincent
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As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour, mixing with low-lifes. They were the sort who'd pick your pocket and then say 'Here you are lad, here's tuppence, get yourself some chips'. I was a good rugby player, a good runner, so I fitted in at Cambridge quite easily.
Sid Waddell
LearningGoodYourselfSchoolYou
Nothing in baseball can bring me down to the level where I was growing up in Pine Bluff, crying and broke. This is fun for me. Whenever you see me slumping, nah, I don't get upset; I'm all right.
Torii Hunter
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Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.
Mohsin Hamid
SchoolAmericanValuesCountryPlay
To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist texts on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything.
Mona Eltahawy
DayMeLibraryEverythingUniversity
Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.
Christopher Parker
AmazingBigFilmWorkingJustSome
We only get better by telling our real story. That's the only way to be.
Bozoma Saint John
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It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.
Anthony Doerr
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