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• In the early days I'd be slaving over a mixing desk. I'm not a recording engineer but I used to mix the record. We used to do it all by ourselves. I just don't really want to do it anymore. I want somebody to do it for me. I want to concentrate on other things. That's been a big change, a learning curve. But no regrets, it's all part of life's rich tapestry.

  Stevie Jackson

  Regret, Curves, Mixing

  "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

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• I was drawing professionally by the time I was 12. I used to do very detailed sort of photorealistic pen-and-ink work, and I burned out on it around, like, high school. And cartooning really got me back into drawing.

  Dan Povenmire

  School, Drawing, Ink

  "We Just Keep Trying to Beat Every Show With the Funny Stick Until It's Funny". Interview with Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. June 10, 2015.

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• I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

  Paul Westerberg

  Writing, Boys, Men

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

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• City's effort to end homelessness among veterans is different than how things used to be in L.A.

  John Carlos Frey

  Cities, Effort, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on there with a directing partner, so I could blame him when everything went tits up. But since then my nerves have incrementally decreased so I'm not plagued by the same sense of nerves as I used to be.

  Guy Ritchie

  Pounds, Video, Nerves

  Source: collider.com

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• I used to play Barbies with my Mormon neighbor friend; it was always, "Oh, we're going to go on a date. Ken's taking us out, and we're going with Ken on a date." And I was like, "We're parachuting behind enemy lines to save the Jews." That's how I played Barbies. I was told when I was a girl that every Jewish woman has to have five children to replace three fifths of our people that were killed. That's how I was raised.

  Roseanne Barr

  Girl, Children, Play

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• I used to scream at everybody at the beginning of my career. I'd get really emotional. I'd project all my issues about my parents and safety onto the executives, so every conversation where they gave a note was life or death and you don't love me.

  Judd Apatow

  Emotional, Careers, Issues

  The ELLE Interview, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• A lot of bands that are great disappear a little bit faster than they used to. They don't get as much support for the long haul. You have to be pretty tough to hang in there.

  Judd Apatow

  Long, Support, Band

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way you used to root for Bill Murray or John Candy in "Stripes." Seth had something that very few people you encounter have: he had a writer's mind and he had his own comic point of view.

  Judd Apatow

  Sweet, Fun, Views

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Working with Jean-Claude is a lot of fun. Because he's a great actor who also happens to be a fighter. That combination doesn't usually come together anymore. Usually, you have to fight the stunt double and then act against the actor. In his case, you are fighting with a real guy. It takes a minute to get used to that. Because it doesn't happen any more.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Fun, Real, Fighting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I believe in what I do. I mean, I don't go out - I don't have the clothes or drink anymore, I don't do drugs or any of that. I used to. But I got very ready to get me out of the house.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Believe, Mean, Clothes

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• My dog didn't like me very much. My first dog, Dmitri, was a poodle. I used to think Dmitri was something I could play with and ride. I tried to ride a poodle. And then he bit me.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Dog, Thinking, Play

  "Marley & Me - Jennifer Aniston interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.

  ASAP Ferg

  Fashion, Art, Grace

  Source: www.gq.com

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• What tends to happen in most movies is that strip clubs are used as a short hand for unsympathetic, sleazy people. And that's just a lazy cliché.

  Steve Coogan

  Hands, People, Lazy

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• There were days when we used to say, what was in today's paper is tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.When I became successful, I enjoyed myself a little.

  Steve Coogan

  Successful, Paper, Littles

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn't worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know: I'm really running the show.

  Scott Raab

  Running, Two, Hbo

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.

  Bruno Mars

  Mother, Song, Dad

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• The Bible talks about how God uses difficult situations to develop our character and get us stronger. The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends. But out of that darkness, out of that disappointment in my life, that's what God used to push me into another level of victory or another level of ministry that I never knew I had.

  Joel Osteen

  Disappointment, Father, Character

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.

  Alan Greenspan

  Political, Groups, Social

  "Senator Kerry speaks, &c." by Jay Nordlinger, www.nationalreview.com. November 01, 2006.

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• Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mean, Goal, Achieve

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• I have read that the ancients, when they had produced a sound, used to modulate it, heightening and lowering its pitch without departing from the rules of harmony. So must the artist do in working at the nude.

  Antonio Canova

  Artist, Sound, Harmony

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• I worked out of desperation. I used to hit fast and run in hopes that people wouldn't realize that I really couldn't do anything.

  Betty Hutton

  Running, People, Realizing

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

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• I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a PhD in comparative literature so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called FMR, so we have a common interest in design.

  David Chipperfield

  Art, Book, Wife

  "My space". Interview with Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2008.

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• The problem is that taxes aren’t used efficiently.

  Mian Muhammad Mansha

  Problem, Taxes

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• Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

  Douglas Hurd

  Giving, Tools, Slave

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