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• The Baby Boom has spawned an even bigger Grandma Boom. For every baby born, two women turn into grandmas.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Baby, Grandma, Grandparent

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• the arts of Mexico are heavy with the weight of the past, of gods that demanded the sacrifice of a thousand beating hearts in a day, of a world that ended every fifty-two years, of warriors who rushed into battle wearing the heads of jaguars or clothed in the flayed skins of their human victims.

  Biloine W. Young

  Art, Warrior, Sacrifice

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• As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.

  Molly Elliot Seawell

  Marriage, Taken, Needs

  Molly Elliot Seawell (1899). “The sprightly romance of Marsac”

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• Remember, when the writers refer to themselves as 'we' and to the reader as 'you,' this is two against one.

  Judith Rascoe

  Remember, Remember When, Reader

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• You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.

  Cat Deeley

  Believe, Different, Use

  "Nerdy but nice" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2011.

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• My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.

  Ice Cube

  Kids, Son, Two Year Olds

  "Ice Cube: 'My son could recite Straight Outta Compton at two years old'". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2014.

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• I know I can't dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no rhythm. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own home and every once in a while at a club. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.

  Hope Solo

  Home, Greatest Fear, Dancing

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• Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

  Vince Gill

  Mistake, Successful, Exercise

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• I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Children, House, Challenges

  "Work And Babies: Women Still Have To Pick Their Poison (But Men Are Evolving!)" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.

  Don Murray

  Writing, Twenties, Hours

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• We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

  Sam Riley

  Snow, London, Panic

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

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• I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.

  Michael McMillian

  Writing, Blood, Bird

  "EXCLUSIVE: Michael McMillian On 'True Blood' Comics, TV Crossovers, And Steve Newlin's Return". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.mtv.com. December 27, 2010.

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• I know the one time I tried therapy, I did after a month or two, and I only lasted a few months, because I started to worry about being entertaining. I kept driving there once a week for an hour and I'm thinking "What am I going to talk about today?"

  Justin Kirk

  Thinking, Worry, Today

  "Justin Kirk Talks NOBODY WALKS, WEEDS, ANIMAL PRACTICE, MR. MORGAN’S LAST LOVE, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 13, 2012.

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• I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

  Willard Scott

  Grandparent, Privilege

  Willard Scott (2005). “If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First”, Hyperion

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• The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.

  Richard Ayoade

  Character, Talking, Knowing

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2011.

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• Hillary has her work cut out for her. Her Democratic challengers are a 'Who's Who' of 'who's that?' Jim Webb, Lincoln Chafee, Silas Phelps, Peter Wilks... now those last two were characters from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. You didn't even notice, did you?

  Cecily Strong

  Adventure, Character, Cutting

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• During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Girl, Jobs, Children

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• Every time I got drunk, this girl named Nikki would show up. When I got drunk, I was just a different person. This is a totally different person than Lisa. When these two started to battle it out, I had to create a third person to come in and straighten the two of them out. Nina, my evil twin who came from within, who I blame my sins on. (satanic alter) All the problems I did have stemmed from what I was doing - I was creating all these different personalities.

  Lisa Lopes

  Girl, Creating, Drunk

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• Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.

  Monica Crowley

  Soulmate, War, Fighting

  "Monica's Manifesto". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. July 13, 2012.

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• After leaving ImageMovers, I sold two pitches to Fox Atomic, which I then wrote for them.

  Lauren Miller

  Leaving, Foxes

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• Two of my favorite actresses are Meryl Streep and Angelina Jolie. So, I would love, love, love to work with them. But I also really love AnnaSofia Robb. There are a lot of great actresses I would love to work with.

  Willow Shields

  Actresses, My Favorite

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

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• Well, Jen and Josh are the two funniest people on set. They're absolutely insane. If you put them together, it's just a disaster, But, I mean, it's so much fun! They're both probably the funniest people on set.

  Willow Shields

  Fun, Mean, People

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• I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.

  Lennie James

  Drama, Ghost Stories, Eight

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

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• I know its corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through.

  Andy Dick

  Laughter, People, Laughing

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• I've got girlfriends who call me 'Raye' or 'L. Raye', but when somebody calls me 'Lisa', it's like, 'You've got two more times to say that and then I think you're disrespecting me and I'm going to have to cut you!'

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Girlfriend, Cutting, Thinking

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