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• It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.

  Hugh Jackman

  Song, Interesting, Needs

  "Hugh Jackman Talks Tom Hooper's LES MISERABLES; Filming Begins in March, Confirms 3D is Being Discussed" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

  Jesse Jackson

  Community, Used, Know How

  "Some Layer of the Excitement is Gone". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. August 08, 2011.

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• I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Anger, Thinking, Space

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• I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Voice, Alcohol, Sound

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

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• 'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian until the last part of the 20th century. Before that, you might identify as a Baptist, or a Southern Baptist or a Methodist. But there wasn't one identifier that put you in a fold with all the other believers.

  Penn Jillette

  Christian, Self, People

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

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• It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

  Mindy Kaling

  Funny, Writing, Character

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• Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Boss, World, Able

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• It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.

  Donna Karan

  Yoga, Balance, Needs

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• I used to be super trendy and totally sexy. But I look back now and I used to want everything short and low cut and you really can't do it all.

  Kim Kardashian

  Sexy, Cutting, Want

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• I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

  Ken Kesey

  Memories, Used, Holes

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• There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Country, Brazil, Today

  "Obama Is Average". SPIEGEL interview, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.

  Diane Kruger

  War, Struggle, Confusion

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• The ultimate art form of fashion is couture. I completely geek out when it comes to couture. It shows fashion as it used to be. I don't know how many people can actually afford the clothes, but in a way, that's beside the point.

  Diane Kruger

  Fashion, Art, Clothes

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• I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Sports, America, Syndicate

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• My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Kids, Son

  "Talib Kweli On Mainstream Hip-Hop And Honoring The Old School". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 24, 2013.

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• In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  People, Used, Frightened

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• I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Honesty, Thinking, Used

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• Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.

  Frank Lampard

  Sports, Running, Player

  Interview With Rob Hobson, www.cfcnet.co.uk. August 10, 2005.

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• I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.

  Artie Lange

  College, Thinking, Voice

  Interview With Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.

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• Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation.

  Hugh Laurie

  Play, Way, Months

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

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• I used to be obsessed about how I presented myself. I didn't want other people dressing me because I didn't want to be treated like a clothes horse.

  Annie Lennox

  Horse, Clothes, People

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• I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Good Day, Four

  "How I Write" by Elmore Leonard, www.gq.com. August 19, 2013.

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• I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started.

  Adriana Lima

  Jobs, Bikinis, Skinny

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• You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Funny, President, Serious

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• I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Movie, Stars, Actors

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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