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• For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.

  Rupert Grint

  Film, Favourite Things

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• My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty pleasure is everything MMA. Ultimate Fighter is amazing.

  Ricky Gervais

  Years, Bridges, Mma

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

  Don King

  Mother, Children, Evil

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• The collar-bone is my favourite part of the human body.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Body, Bones, Collars

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• Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

  Alex D. Linz

  Culture, Humour

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• The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. "I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear." She's been sensitized, turned gooey in the middle. I saw it happening and I didn't do anything to stop it. From now on, she'll be writing diaries and sometimes including little poems and she'll buy gifts for her favourite teachers and she'll admire the scenery and she'll watch the news and she'll buy soup for homeless people and she'll never burn my leg hair again.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Teacher, Fall, Writing

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• The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Scotch, Champion

  "Background Briefing" with Kirsten Garrett, www.abc.net.au. August 16, 2009.

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• I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Divorce, Dark, Thinking

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• All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird, but I used to do a New Jersey accent in every audition in the States just because I liked to do it, really. It's completely bizarre. Everybody would ask: 'Where are you from?' And I would say, 'Oh, I'm from London.'

  Robert Pattinson

  Life, America, Actors

  "Robert Pattinson: 'Girls scream at me all round the world. Once, I was so nervous, I started crying...'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 22, 2009.

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• I've been called other things too, and some of them uncomplimentary and sexist like the 'Queen of Sprawl', 'Attila the Hen,' 'The Mom who runs Mississauga' and the 'Mississauga Rattler', so it's little wonder that my favourite nickname is Hurricane Hazel.

  Hazel McCallion

  Mom, Running, Queens

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• My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.

  Bill Bryson

  Science, Work Out, Royal

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• In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Facts, Literature

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• The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

  Robin Gibb

  Soul, Black, Style

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get the film down to just about the right cut. You can feel it when it happens.

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  Cutting, Dresses, Weight

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• If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we have…and the thing we’ve seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirror, so obviously that’s going to be our least favourite thing.

  Taylor Swift

  Reflection, Thinking, Mirrors

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• I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.

  John Hurt

  Memories, Film, I Can

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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• I hate foreplay, I want to get straight to the point. My favourite position is on top so I can take control.

  Melissa Satta

  Hate, Want, Take Control

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• I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten Abbey Crunch will remain forever on my lips. I loved the biscuit as much as anything I have ever eaten, and often, in moments of solitude, I still think about its warm, buttery, sugary self.

  Nigel Slater

  Food, Thinking, Self

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• Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.

  Julie Burchill

  Thinking, Years, Restless

  "Chill factors" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

  John Mayer

  Mother, Trying, Pursuit

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• I did 'Narnia' because it was a good opportunity and all that, but really? I wanted to play Mr. Tumnus because he's my favourite children's character. That was awesome.

  James McAvoy

  Children, Character, Opportunity

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• I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.

  James McAvoy

  Art, Guy, Modern

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• My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

  Kevin McCloud

  Dickens

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• I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it's OK for me to return home.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Home, Long, Justice

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• The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more.

  Lionel Messi

  Opportunity, Champions League, Goal

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