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• I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it.

  Ellie Goulding

  Taken, Suffering, Panic

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

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• Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting hundreds of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart.

  Hugh Grant

  Girl, Heart, Special

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• The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

  Brian Greene

  Numbers, Mail, Inspired

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• I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

  Dick Gregory

  Children, White, Black

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• I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'

  Salma Hayek

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.

  Hugh Hefner

  Religious, People, Boards

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• Alongside my "no email" policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Writing, People

  "Why I decided to pull the plug on email" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2007.

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• To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

  David Hume

  Christian, Believe, Philosophical

  David Hume (1826). “The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author”, p.548

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• It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, School, College

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• I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them.

  Davy Jones

  Girl, Hate, America

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• I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

  Norah Jones

  Stood Up, Hanging Around

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• You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Kissing, Light, Kiss Me

  Song: Every Word Was A Piece Of My Heart, Album: Destination Anywhere, 1997

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• I get letters from little girls begging me to adopt them.

  Kim Kardashian

  Girl, Littles, Begging

  "Kim Kardashian: We Can't Keep Up!". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. January 2, 2011.

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• A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.

  Alicia Keys

  Song, Eye, Keys

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• When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I'm going through and how I see it.

  Alicia Keys

  Mother, Crazy, Writing

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• I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Years, Literature

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• When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

  Kristin Kreuk

  Birthday, Writing, School

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• The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Mean, Unique, Important

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• Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

  Jacques Lacan

  Writing, Wind, Flying

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• Back in the day, fans wrote letters to groups - you'd get them, although it could take a while. Now, artists can go online and there's discussions about what you should and shouldn't be doing. The minute you announce that you're recording an album, thousands of people are telling you what that album should be.

  Geddy Lee

  Artist, People, Groups

  "Geddy Lee and Billy Corgan talk albums vs singles". Interview with Joe Bosso, www.musicradar.com. June 21, 2012.

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• The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes.

  Spike Lee

  Writing, Phones, Media

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• I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.

  Elmore Leonard

  Thinking, People, Want

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• Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Army, Challenges, Criticism

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Men, Politics, Election

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• I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

  Ian MacKaye

  Tape, Posters, Librarian

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