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• I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.

  Eric Burdon

  Song, Passion, Order

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• I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid to get up and sing with a jazz band. Then I started to hang out in rock clubs and learned to carry off different styles.

  Eric Burdon

  Kids, Rocks, Style

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• The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public, as people who didn't know what would happen next, but who were sure that acts of true risk and fear would produce something different from what they had been raised to take for granted.

  Greil Marcus

  People, Risk, Next

  Greil Marcus (2013). “The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years”, p.56, PublicAffairs

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• I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine.

  Shalom Harlow

  Hands, Feet, Brain

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• My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.

  Bill Dixon

  Careers, People, Knows

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• L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.

  Dylan McDermott

  Zuma, Downtown, Towns

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• San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.

  Les Claypool

  Nice, San Francisco, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

  Tom Hanks

  Mean, Years, Desire

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts' Larry Crowne: A family affair". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

  Kurt Russell

  Views, People, Point Of View

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• I try not to get too rattled about things that aren't that important - there's a different outburst for when the kids are reaching for a knife in the kitchen versus the reaction I have when they just won't stop talking. And my wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Kids, Talking, Knives

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• Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

  James Spader

  Two, Directors, Actors

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• I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.

  James Spader

  Art, Symphony, Museums

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

  Rita Coolidge

  Player, Information, Wealth

  Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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• I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Journey, Imagination

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• One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Kind, Reason, Different Kinds

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• I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  People, Trying, Honest

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.

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• We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.

  George P. Shultz

  Long, Hawks, Administration

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• There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.

  Bill Pullman

  Thinking, America, Patterns

  "A Minute With: Bill Pullman about 'Torchwood'". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. July 6, 2011.

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• I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Heart, School, Character

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• Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

  Howard Gardner

  Years, Twenties, Problem

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• One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.

  Gus Van Sant

  Realising, Havens, Shocked

  "All the world's an art school" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2004.

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• Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Thinking, Trying, Might

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• I prefer lump charcoal over briquettes but I do use both for different reasons and different recipes and sometimes I combine them both when I really want the woodsy aroma from the lump charcoal and long, even heat from the briquettes.

  Bobby Flay

  Long, Use, Recipes

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• I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happens.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Agency, Trying, Stories

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• As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.

  Emily Procter

  Adoption, Parent, Kind

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