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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

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When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that - if you don't get that runner's high every day, you feel like, 'Oh my God, I'm losing it.'

Joe Perry

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I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.

Jesse James Garrett

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Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.

Jerry Costello

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I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

John McGahern

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Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.

Tony Buzan

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I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

Roger Michell

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Working with Dudley Moore was so hilarious. I don't know how we got anything done because everybody was laughing so hard, but he was such a wonderful man, and he had a kindness and a musicality and a dearness to him that was triumphant.

Liza Minnelli

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The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again.

Joshua Sasse

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The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.

Douglas Rushkoff

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Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.

Antonio Munoz Molina

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I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

Anne Lamott

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People are usually so disappointed with book-to-movie translations.

Allison Janney

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