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• I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.

  Mike Shinoda

  Years, Piano, Keyboards

  "Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Rocks on to New Challenge: 'The Raid: Redemption' Film Score (Q&A)" by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 21, 2012.

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• If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park looks amazing on camera.

  Matt Smith

  New York, Doctors, Cities

  "Matt Smith reveals his favourite Doctor Who moment as sharing a snog with Jenna-Louis Coleman". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. March 2, 2013.

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• Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Ongoing, Landscape

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

  Robert Smithson

  Memories, Past, Reality

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.156, Univ of California Press

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• My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

  Steven Spielberg

  Jurassic Park, Leviathan, Inspired

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• The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first ‘Jurassic Park,’ which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That’s the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Jurassic Park, Looks

  "‘Jurassic Park’: Laura Dern Role Could Have Gone To Helen Hunt Or Gwyneth Paltrow" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.

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• The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.

  Steven Spielberg

  Night, Jurassic Park, Territory

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• The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Team, Enemy

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• I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

  Jon Stewart

  Night, Feet, Two

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• I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.

  Emma Stone

  Kings, School, Rights

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• Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.

  David Suzuki

  Backyards, Next, Remember

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• I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once.

  Bob Uecker

  Good Day, Bad Day, Thinking

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• I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.

  Carrie Underwood

  Baseball, Football, Games

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• The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Running, Challenges

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• The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.

  Timothy West

  Good Night, Goodnight, Somewhere Else

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• There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.

  Joss Whedon

  Fun, Drama, Play

  "Joss Whedon Compares 'Avengers' To Shakespeare" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. September 06, 2012.

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• The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!

  Robbie Williams

  Sex, Wine, Car

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• And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.

  James Wolcott

  Team, Book, Moon

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• The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

  Martin Filler

  Successful, Cities, Expansion

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• Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

  Jack Horner

  Jurassic Park, Dinosaurs, Students

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• I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.

  Walter Kirn

  Art, Lying, Thinking

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• For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

  John Steinbeck

  Yellowstone, Civilization, America

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.91, Penguin

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• Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.

  Edward Abbey

  Stress, Long, Car

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.49, University of Arizona Press

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• ...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom.

  Diane Ackerman

  Children, Pain, Memories

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• At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that goes on in America -- a belief that no commercial activities must be allowed inside the park, but permitting unrestrained development outside, even though the landscape there may be just as outstanding. America has never quite grasped that you can live in a place without making it ugly, that beauty doesn't have to be confined behind fences, as if a national park were a sort of zoo for nature.

  Bill Bryson

  Zoos, Feet, America

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.95, VNR AG

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