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• I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: 60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.

  Valentino Garavani

  Fashion, Clothes, Littles

  Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com.au. August 10, 2010.

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• For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Heart, Years, Broken

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• But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

  Ridley Scott

  Adventure, Smell, Creating

  "Exclusive Print Interview with Sir Ridley Scott for Gladiator". Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. September 13, 2005.

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• Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or just listen to your favourite tune. Dance, talk or be lifted up to where you can see how other people make things work. Sit out over space with a drink and tune in to what's happening elsewhere in the city. Try starting a riot or beginning a painting – or just lie back and stare at the sky.

  Joan Littlewood

  Baby, Lying, Sky

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• Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense of his sense of reality, to be his closest and effectively his only friend, to encourage him to rejectthe consensus of opinionand find reassurance only in her arms is binding her mate to her with hoops of steel that will strangle them both.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Pride, Reality

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• We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.

  Dave Mason

  Favourite City, Cities, Wicked

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• My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

  P. J. Plauger

  Experts, Definitions, Fields

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• Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

  Cale Yarborough

  Dirty, Intelligent, Pigs

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• The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

  Meredith Willson

  Men, Brave, Coward

  "Libretto for Meredith Wilson's the music man: book, music and lyrics".

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• Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

  Robert Fripp

  Simple, Knowing, Understanding

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• Invention is the mother of necessity.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Mother, Invention

  Thorstein Veblen (1994). “Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times : the Case of America”, p.63, Transaction Publishers

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• Fred didn't have a favourite colour. He was just pleased that he could see all of the colours in the colour chart. That was his wish for everyone. Fred wanted people to experience the joy of seeing vivid colours - in nature: the greens and browns of the mountains; in their work: the orange, red and black of the back of the retina; and in life.

  Gabi Hollows

  Motivation, Orange, People

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• All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird, but I used to do a New Jersey accent in every audition in the States just because I liked to do it, really. It's completely bizarre. Everybody would ask: 'Where are you from?' And I would say, 'Oh, I'm from London.'

  Robert Pattinson

  Life, America, Actors

  "Robert Pattinson: 'Girls scream at me all round the world. Once, I was so nervous, I started crying...'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 22, 2009.

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• I've been called other things too, and some of them uncomplimentary and sexist like the 'Queen of Sprawl', 'Attila the Hen,' 'The Mom who runs Mississauga' and the 'Mississauga Rattler', so it's little wonder that my favourite nickname is Hurricane Hazel.

  Hazel McCallion

  Mom, Running, Queens

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• My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.

  Bill Bryson

  Science, Work Out, Royal

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• In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Facts, Literature

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• The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

  Robin Gibb

  Soul, Black, Style

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

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• Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get the film down to just about the right cut. You can feel it when it happens.

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  Cutting, Dresses, Weight

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• Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Play, Boards, Chess

  Alexander Alekhine (1955). “My best games of chess, 1924-1937”

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• My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity.

  Mario Testino

  Opportunity, Curiosity, Possibility

  "Mario Testino interview: the man who makes models super". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2012.

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• I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.

  John Hurt

  Memories, Film, I Can

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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• I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Divorce, Dark, Thinking

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• The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Scotch, Champion

  "Background Briefing" with Kirsten Garrett, www.abc.net.au. August 16, 2009.

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• Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Iran, Iraq

  "Hitch-22: A Memoir". Book by Christopher Hitchens, 2010.

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• For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.

  Rupert Grint

  Film, Favourite Things

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