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• Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Giving, Imagination, World

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. May 8, 2009.

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• I wouldn't not listen to something because it was country. I usually listen to stuff that friends give me, if I admire their taste.

  Albert Hammond, Jr.

  Country, Giving, Stuff

  "Random Rules: Albert Hammond Jr". Interview with Noel Murray, music.avclub.com. May 8, 2007.

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• My producers give me total freedom. No one asks me for anything; they just tell me to make a good film, and that's what I do.

  Michel Ocelot

  Giving, Film, Producers

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man who professes to be a monster. They'll give me notice very soon. I started out being a great attraction, but people soon understood that what fascinated them about me was no more than the reflection of their own deformities. All I do is how them what is inside themselves,' He added mournfully.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Reflection, Men, People

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• I'm not a real musician. If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that. I want to be able to be in a group and take my guitar and play with them, without someone showing me, "Okay, you're going to do this and that," because music has always been a big part of my life.

  Marion Cotillard

  Real, Guitar, Play

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 20, 2014.

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• Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

  Alanis Morissette

  Past, Giving, Bankers

  "New Again: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Elizabeth Weitzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• I am never a stranger anywhere I go, and it gives me the opportunity to choose my habitat by literally throwing a dart at a globe. The freedom that permits one to feel welcome where ever the hang their hat cannot be overstated.

  Dean Haglund

  Opportunity, Giving, Habitat

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.

  Ai Weiwei

  Mean, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.

  Charles Stross

  Writing, Giving, Window

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• I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  People, Giving, Benefits

  "Mikhail Baryshnikov Shared His Walls". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2012.

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• It's funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they're easier emotions for me to connect with. The challenge is accessing pain, angst, depression. . . It's more exciting because it gives me somewhere to go and allows me to tap into a part of myself that everyone can relate to.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Pain, Who I Am, Giving

  "Behind-the-Scenes with Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• Definitely the biggest misconception is that it is overly burdensome to be a woman and pursue this line of work. But being a woman gives me a unique perspective and style, which is probably why I get the work that I do.

  Reed Morano

  Unique, Giving, Perspective

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I enjoy what people at the concert give me and I can't do it without them, so it's really an exchange of energy that snowballs back and forth and becomes something that's very satisfying and very magical.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Giving, Energy

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• I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

  Fiona Apple

  Play, Ideas, Giving

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2013.

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• I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun.

  Eric Idle

  Fun, Nice, Moving

  "Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy) - Eric Idle interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Country, Father

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs.

  Robert Quillen

  Giving, Belief, Contrary

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• Don't give me timing, give me time

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Giving, Timing

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• I want to fall on the floor laughing - imagining Hillary Clinton working well in the Senate with everybody else! Oh, give me a break. I've already joked in print that they would need to build her a private cloakroom on the Mall. This is not a woman who has any ability to deal with the mass of humanity. She is the most arrogant, the most moralistic, the most sermonizing and annoying person on earth.

  Camille Paglia

  Fall, Laughing, Giving

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• Whenever faced with a challenge, I dig deep within myself and summon my spiritual and physical forces. This gives me the focus, determination, perseverance, and support I need to succeed.

  Gail Devers

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Determination

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• Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a message, to sensitize the word to an important cause, to defend certain values.

  Princess Diana

  Eye, Responsibility, Impact

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• If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

  Son, Giving, Joy

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• You learn so much from your parents. We grew up in a home where we were definitely taught to be confident. I definitely give me parents a lot of credit.

  Venus Williams

  Home, Giving, Parent

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• The day I will never forget is the day I married my wife, Tashera. Tashera is so special to my boys and me. Her energy is enough to put anyone on a cloud. Her dedication and care gives me comfort and ease.

  DMX

  Boys, Dedication, Clouds

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• If anyone tells me I'm fat, I say, - That's because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit

  Clement Freud

  Giving, Wife, Making Love

  "I find chat shows hard work these days. It was so different when Ustinov and Niven were weaving their magic on Parky" by Maureen Lipman, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2006.

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