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JACK VALENTI SHARON JONES Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't ... IMELDA STAUNTON If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very ... D. A. PENNEBAKER BEHATI PRINSLOO I think it's very insulting to say, 'White people don't understand.' What are you ta... KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE JERRY SEINFELD JANIS JOPLIN LINUS TORVALDS TONY KUSHNER ANNIE LENNOX Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, yo... TABITHA KING NEIL MARSHALL DAPHNE GUINNESS It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt in... CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you ca... WENDY CARLOS DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's alway... WAYNE ROGERS GIGI HADID MARTIN REES RONALD REAGAN Injuries aren't anything foreign to me. I am used to overcoming illness and injury; you can'... CATE CAMPBELL Fatherhood isn't always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It's very natur... KELLY SLATER HILARIE BURTON DERMOT MULRONEY Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. ... DAVID CHASE The great thing about Pete and Peggy's storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There&#... ELISABETH MOSS When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH VAL KILMER DAVID BYRNE A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. S... ANDY WEIR If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you... DARIN STRAUSS It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON DAVID S. GOYER Metal isn't necessarily aggressive. There's metal that's contemplative, there's meta... JOHN DARNIELLE Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at n... JOHN LEE HOOKER GOTYE It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and the... ELIZABETH PERKINS You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't g... LORRAINE BRACCO BRIAN ENO If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a sh... SAMANTHA BEE So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about ... EMILY BLUNT Gamer humor ranges all over the place. What it comes down to is taking a lot of what we see in gamin... FREDDIE WONG DOUGLAS ADAMS When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exa... KEITH JARRETT There are places in the world that the power goes out in hospitals, and there isn't clean water,... SHERI FINK People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, ... BARRY LOPEZ ARVIND GUPTA A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You ca... JAKE ROBERTS HALSEY There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in... SHERYL CROW In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bothe... HEATHER BROOKE JACK WHITE I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn'... MICHAEL ROBOTHAM 'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. ... AIDAN GILLEN The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they ar... OREN PELI When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mi... AL ALVAREZ When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking... PATRICK O'BRIAN For artists of my caliber, we're not played on the radio, so we don't really get a chance to... BOY GEORGE CHARLES DE LINT TAMMY DUCKWORTH I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born w... TARA REID STEVE MARTIN JOHN CUSACK DOUGLAS CONANT J. COLE HENRY JAMES The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in... OPHELIA LOVIBOND It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON BEN STEIN NANCY REAGAN CHRISTOPHER GUEST ART BUCHWALD There's a couple of movie parts that I can't remember. There was always something kind of lu... CRAIG ROBINSON You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody... ERIC JOHNSON SHEL SILVERSTEIN DR. DRE TRUMAN CAPOTE XAVIER DOLAN If I can relay anything, it's that if someone has a dream, and it isn't the norm of what oth... DAVID HALLBERG HARVEY FIERSTEIN I pitched the idea to FX that there's this larger 'Fargo' universe where there's tru... NOAH HAWLEY NATALIE PORTMAN What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way ... CAROLE BOUQUET
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IRA SORKIN Sometimes juries think the judge is part of the government. IRA SORKIN As I understand the law, all the jury has to do is find is that somebody at Andersen engaged in ille... IRA SORKIN The longer the jury is out the worse it is for the defense. If the government doesn't have the evide... IRA SORKIN We're not yet at that point [for a dynamite charge]. They are still talking and not killing each oth... IRA SORKIN I'm not sure this is a linchpin. He will have to point a finger at a much larger control group at An... IRA SORKIN Judge Harmon can then give Duncan whatever she likes. IRA SORKIN Hard paywalls will never work because, just like at a newsstand, the reader likes to browse the cove... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why lea... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Perhaps the biggest economic shift during Obama's presidency came from a piece of legislation th... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rate... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN If I have a spare second, I usually catch up on the many magazines I'm behind on or watch the la... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN There is a long list of psychology research demonstrating that appearances matter more than most us ... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it ... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN In September 2008 - as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and AIG, the world's biggest insuran... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prev... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN I think, with Hank Paulson, the concept of a bailout was anathema to him from day one. He was a Repu... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have falle... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have l... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Wa... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN TARP became so politicized that having money from it was almost like a scarlet letter. There were de... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by par... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might h... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers. ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The greatest economic power might in fact remain in the hands of the Federal Reserve. Economists cre... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN I don't want to put words in Geithner's mouth, but I think he is generally against the revol... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of ... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Several companies have explicit policies against cronyism, with good reason. Hiring a family member ... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Hank Paulson, obviously, had spent his career on Wall Street, had a deep knowledge of the Street, an... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Why do we have financial crises? Why do banks lose money? If history is any guide, it hasn't oft... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make i... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quali... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A ... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon t... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower c... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN I have always looked at the world through the prism of money to some degree. If you could follow the... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Unemployment in Florida peaked at 11.2 percent in 2009, higher than the national average, and the st... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world,... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN There's something called, 'resolution authority,' which gives the government the power t... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN What keeps me up at night? Waking up to a scoop at another newspaper or on TV. I'm probably comp... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The Saft America plant, a giant 235,000-square-foot mass of concrete, is a modern marvel: its roof c... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN I got my start in the 'New York Times' because I used to read Stuart Elliot, the advertising... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly ste... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN While the financial crisis destroyed careers and reputations, and left many more bruised and battere... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN AARON RODGERS AARON KOBLIN AARON PATZER AARON BURR AARON RODGERS I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church. QUINTON AARON Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you... QUINTON AARON I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and bei... QUINTON AARON Being a fan of the business for years and wanting to be an actor for years, I knew, if ever the oppo... QUINTON AARON Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me. QUINTON AARON If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get som... QUINTON AARON I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday ac... QUINTON AARON I do believe in sending positive messages. I am a Christian, so I do believe in a lot of positive me... QUINTON AARON My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, ther... AARON LEVIE HANK AARON AARON NEVILLE I think I watched a movie about it. AARON EDWARDS He came prepared to play. He fulfilled the author's intention. It's his movie. He's the man in it. AARON ECKHART I think people could come out of this movie thinking, although all of these are very serious subject... AARON ECKHART Audiences like both savory and unsavory characters, and [even] unsavory elements can be attractive. ... AARON ECKHART All these people are so firm on their positions. That's where the humor in the movie comes from, ...... AARON ECKHART For Nick, the game, basically, is convincing people. It's getting people to look at things your way.... AARON ECKHART Nick is a tobacco lobbyist who loves his job and doesn't apologize for it, which [as a role] is exci... AARON ECKHART I think Jason's going to have a huge career, AARON ECKHART Thank You for Smoking. AARON ECKHART the highest regard you can receive. That photo can describe an entire life, just an honor, as well a... AARON ECKHART I'm going to have to stick with the 300 hurdles. There's not a lot of people who can do it and do it... AARON DOBSON The indoor season is definitely going to give me a good jump for outdoor because I'm starting my tra... AARON DOBSON I thought about how disappointed I was. I would admit that after that race I was broken in half. It ... AARON DOBSON Medical amnesty is a good thing. They should always be thinking how to make the code better. AARON DOBSON They (Dublin Scioto) look pretty big. And, it should be a real battle. AARON DOBSON With this being our first home game of the season, everybody was really pumped and ready to play. AARON DOBSON I was just feeling it tonight. AARON DOBSON It is criminal that the Democratic elected officials allowed this country to invade Iraq, and it is ... AARON DIXON Maria pays such little attention to issues affecting the black community. She's coming in here with ... AARON DIXON I do not look at myself as a spoiler. AARON DIXON The people are tired and they want change. AARON DIXON West Nile Virus is here to stay. It's not something to be afraid of, but something to be concerned w... AARON DEVENCENZI We're trying to create a behavioral change. AARON DEVENCENZI One little 5-gallon bucket can create enough mosquitoes for an entire city block. AARON DEVENCENZI With abundant rain and warmer temperatures, mosquito populations could be large. AARON DEVENCENZI Pallets are no longer allowed because they have too many chemicals in them. AARON COSTIC Twenty degrees is perfect for us. When it gets into the high 20s and the sun is out, it starts to af... AARON COSTIC It's one of the cultural events. They give out Olympic medals. There will be eight blocks of ice and... AARON COSTIC Most pieces just depict the finished product. This piece shows the beginning stages, too, and the fo... AARON COSTIC There were 100 ice sculptors there from all over the world. We were given 10,000 pounds of ice and t... AARON COSTIC We have a tower built of ice, and we fill it with wood and light it on fire. AARON COSTIC AARON COPLAND AARON COPLAND AARON COPLAND AARON COPLAND AARON COPLAND To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. AARON COPELAND The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer w... 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