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• Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

  Allen Klein

  Laughter, Pain, Humor

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• I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

  Chick Corea

  Art, College, Want

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• I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

  Mary Garden

  Writing, Divorce, Myth

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• I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn't get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet.

  Robert Atkins

  Pounds, Three, Goes On

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• I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts.

  Andrew Thomas

  Law, Effort, Boards

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• I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

  Michael Moore

  School, Training, Film

  "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" Radio program, June 23, 2007.

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• In 325 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to unify Rome under a single religion ... Historians still marvel at the brilliance with which Constantine converted the sun-worshipping pagans to Christianity. By fusing pagan symbols, dates, and rituals into the growing Christian tradition, he created a kind of hybrid religion that was acceptable to both parties.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Party, Rome

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• I was 16 when I quit gymnastics and decided to start acting. I started booking immediately after. I was very lucky and fortunate, but I also did the hard work. Half of it's hard work and half of it's luck. It's been working out so far. Fingers crossed for the future.

  Nina Dobrev

  Hard Work, Gymnastics, Work Out

  "Nina Dobrev's New Chapter". Interview with Michael Pena, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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• I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.

  Wyclef Jean

  Song, Years, Sound

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• There was a whole cut of the movie where Tom Holland decided to try a woman's voice for the voice of Chucky, proceeding from the logic that it worked with Mercedes McCambridge voicing the voice of Satan in "The Excorsist" so he thought he would give it a try. It didn't really work. Chucky just sounded kind of gay.We brought that back in Seed of Chucky.

  David Kirschner

  Cutting, Gay, Voice

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Diablo Cody wasn't writing a script about a 16-year girl that got an abortion. She was writing a script about a 16-year old girl that got pregnant, decided to have the baby and give it to a young yuppy uptight couple for adoption. That's what the movie is about.

  Ellen Page

  Girl, Baby, Couple

  "Juno's Ellen Page and Michael Cera". Roundtable Interview, movieweb.com. June 12, 2007.

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• The tone of the picture and the atmosphere was in my head and in my blood in a way once I'd decided to make the picture. I had to find my way through that to choose, select, emphasise certain visual elements and sound.

  Martin Scorsese

  Blood, Atmosphere, Sound

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Adoption was something that was always under my skin, that I knew would be a part of my life, and, when I decided to start filing, it was very clear. It was like I knew that this was exactly what it needed to be. So then you go through the process, and it's tough. It's not the easiest process - and then again, I've never liked things too easy in life. But it emotionally knocks you out.

  Kristen Stewart

  Adoption, Skins, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I took part in a theatre festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated from college. Then I was in Los Angeles thinking: "I'm going to go to New York." I'd decided that I would not have a chance of a film career, so I was about to make the move. I bought a plane ticket and found a place to live in New York, packed my bags and of course the universe "told me" that I was not meant to go. Suddenly, a week before I was supposed to leave, I had three job offers and one of them was my first movie.

  Chris Pine

  Summer, Jobs, New York

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I won a scholarship to come to LA and compete in a modeling and talent completion and was amazed when I won it. I had never acted before in my life and won the acting category. I began to wonder what this is about and then decided to see what happened.

  Eva Longoria

  Acting, Talent, Wonder

  "The Sentinel - Eva Longoria interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.

  I. M. Pei

  Years, Two, Work Out

  Source: archtalks.com

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• The Republican I ran against, at the end of the campaign, had decided that I was "a friend of terrorists" and "a friend of pedophiles." That's the kind of crap they came out with. I expect that's the kind of crap they'll come out with again.

  Bernie Sanders

  Campaigns, Kind, Republican

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

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• The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally hate an illustration of a character on a jacket of a book. I never want to have someone show me what the character really looks like - or what some artist has decided the character really looks like - because it always looks wrong to me. I realize that I prefer to kind of meet the text halfway and offer a lot of visual collaborations from my own imaginative response to the sentences.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Hate, Book, Character

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2007.

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• My clothes are put together out of different basic elements so that a woman can express the way she wants to look, transform, metamorphosize herself not as the woman I decided but as she herself wants to be.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Clothes, Together, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I first decided I wanted to be a writer, when I was 10, 11 years old, the books that I loved obviously and openly fit that description: They came with maps and glossaries and timelines - books like Lord Of The Rings, Dune, The Chronicles Of Narnia. I imagined that's what being a writer was: You invented a world, and you did it in a very detailed way, and you told stories that were set in that world.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Years, Stories

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.

  Billy Corgan

  Tattoo, Hair Metal, Guy

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• The existence of the EPA regulation will require large carbon polluters to look at their hole cards, and some of them have decided that they much prefer legislation.

  Al Gore

  Cards, Looks, Regulation

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I wasn't a class clown, I never developed this comedic flair as a kid. Even when I decided to become an actor, it was just to be an actor, not necessarily a comedic actor. I wasn't that guy who struck out with women so he became really funny, and that's when the women started to like him.

  Steve Carell

  Kids, Class, Guy

  "How Steve Carell Spent His Summer Vacation". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

  Jeff Bridges

  Movie, Actors, Done

  "The Dude will see you now" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2003.

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• I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

  Dennis Hopper

  Actors, Saws, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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