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CHRIS EVANS Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Act... THOMAS JANE I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever th... TAYLOR HAWKINS I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions... NADER AL-MASRI Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked,... SAM WYLY I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that... NAT WOLFF Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just get... CARLI LLOYD I've had the most incredible luck in my career. RICHARD DAWSON I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered ... ESSIE DAVIS I was the singing voice of a cartoon character. I did dog food commercials. I did a lot of commercia... CHERYL LADD What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first fi... JEREMY DAVIES And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in H... UMBERTO GUIDONI No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'... ALEXANDER WANG I watched the night unfold from beginning to end on my own here in my flat in Budapest where I'v... DAVID HAREWOOD What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my c... ANDREW BOGUT I did find some time to go to a record store and check out 'Headstrong' actually in the rack... ASHLEY TISDALE Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position s... JIM EVANS I've been very lucky. I've written for most of my idols and the contemporaries. ALAN ZWEIBEL I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. 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DWAYNE JOHNSON I've been very fortunate to dodge a nickname throughout my entire career. I've never had one... JIMMIE JOHNSON It wasn't until I was at 39 that I joined my first real hockey team. Which was great. I scored a... ADEN YOUNG I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own ... BEN AFFLECK I've had days here and there where I would get discouraged because I wasn't a big star, but ... JANE LYNCH My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the f... VALORIE CURRY I've had a different kind of career on the periphery of show business. I've never been on an... BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My you... SUZI QUATRO I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and thi... 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RACHAEL RAY I was very personable and outgoing and was friends with most everybody in my class but I was a dieha... JENNA DEWAN Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that ... URSULA BURNS The fact was that I had always been considered a leader in my scholastic career. It just never dawne... GERALDINE STUTZ I'm kind of a tomboy, so I've always had a soft spot for action movies. I would love to do o... CASSI THOMSON A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acti... BEN AFFLECK I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them... JANE BIRKIN When I was doing the first 'American Pie' movie, I was just happy to have a job. We had a go... THOMAS IAN NICHOLAS I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they... 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NANCY PELOSI The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embr... NANCY PELOSI America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than i... NANCY PELOSI We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory...... NANCY PELOSI Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom. NANCY PEARCEY The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism. NANCY PEARCEY Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, d... NANCY PEARCEY The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete. NANCY PEARCEY Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western,... NANCY PEARCEY The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to... NANCY PEARCEY My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that ... NANCY PEARCEY Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actuall... NANCY PEARCEY Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 't... NANCY PEARCEY Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, indepen... NANCY PEARCEY America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Theref... NANCY PEARCEY Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the class... NANCY PEARCEY If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their ... NANCY PEARCEY The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest co... NANCY PEARCEY Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testab... NANCY PEARCEY The White House should always be a friend to American freedom. NANCY PEARCEY We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, w... NANCY PEARCEY America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. ... NANCY PEARCEY Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christian... NANCY PEARCEY In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not... NANCY PEARCEY I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I... NANCY MITFORD I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away. NANCY MITFORD To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease. NANCY MITFORD Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory? NANCY MITFORD I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager,... NANCY MEYERS I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people. NANCY MEYERS I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't kno... NANCY MEYERS I really wanted to be a writer. NANCY MEYERS My movies are not messed with by the studios. NANCY MEYERS I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and ... NANCY MEYERS