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So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.


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CATHERINE MCCORMACK It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
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WENTWORTH MILLER I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll han...
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ALICIA VIKANDER I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I&#...
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TOM FELTON Write 'judge of beautiful women' on my tombstone. I'd be quite happy.
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MIRANDA HART I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of an...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I don't have too many bad days because I just don't let them happen. When I'm having one...
MATT DALLAS Dad would come home from doing odd jobs, and sometimes he'd come home late at night with lumber,...
JOHNNY MATHIS I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my...
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RICK RIORDAN I won't do things for money. I can't. So I'll hold out and say, in my mind, 'There&#...
BRIE LARSON I'd like to get a degree. You ever see the movie 'Back to School?' I'll go back with...
DEREK JETER Among those people not graduating, there might be a Steve Jobs or Barack Obama. We'll never know...
JAMIE DIMON I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is ...
OPHELIA LOVIBOND I remember when I was working at Sprint, I'd work on my birthday, New Year's Day, and even C...
PRINCE ROYCE I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
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RACHEL HURD-WOOD So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free...
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CLIVE CUSSLER I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and th...
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ELODIE YUNG My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won&...
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EDDIE MURPHY I don't rely on catchphrases or really like sing-along. I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the ...
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LAURA INGRAHAM If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
SAM WATERSTON I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about th...
MARIE WINDSOR I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Islan...
OLGA KURYLENKO I have been told I say 'shucks' quite frequently... Shucks, I'll have to work on that.
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KATEE SACKHOFF I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, &#...
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ASA BUTTERFIELD If somebody had told me when I was in graduate school, 'Brian, in 35 years you'll get a chan...
BRIAN BINNIE I am so happy to be alive. That's the one thing I'd like for people to know. Sometimes peopl...
GEORGE FOREMAN Everybody asks, 'How do you do it?' And I'm like, 'Well, I'm recurring on both s...
RENA SOFER I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.
BJORK As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's ag...
BRITT EKLAND I'd like to do a kind of 'Sunday Night At The Palladium'-style variety show on the BBC.
ANTON DU BEKE There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker...
LUCY ALIBAR If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic P...
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