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• You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel.

  Ryan Murphy

  Flannels, Cotton, Hundred

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• I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.

  Peter Wright

  Beach, Clothes, People

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• The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

  John McLaughlin

  Culture, Mathematics, Rhythm

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• The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.

  Adam Smith

  Opposites, Competition, Different

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.107

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• Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Order, Cases

  Adam Smith (1778). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.390

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• This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Numbers, People

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.16, VM eBooks

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• A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Citizens, Economics

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.271, Harriman House Limited

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• I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

  Ron Howard

  Thinking, Lust, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• It's very hard to find a good comedy. I prefer doing comedy far over anything else because I think they're actually more profound. But finding a good one and a great ensemble is very difficult to do and I'm delighted that in these particular times there is so much interest in comedy and that comedy is having so much success.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Thinking, Profound, Ensemble

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The first day, in particular, is always one of those weird days because you get ..., you're thrown into this new trailer - here's your wardrobe.

  Mekhi Phifer

  Firsts, Trailers, Weird Day

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think that when you let go and "throw it all away" and stop getting attached and say "whatever happens, happens", you don't invest too much in anything particular, and things work out.

  Chris Pine

  Letting Go, Thinking, Work Out

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The structural notions to me always have to be worked out very carefully in the script stage. Whatever a particular structure is. Whether it's chronological or non-chronological. To me that's always about what point of view are we trying to address in the film?

  Christopher Nolan

  Views, Trying, Addresses

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.

  Grant Morrison

  Cutting, Careers, Editors

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

  Keira Knightley

  Photography, Growing Up, Inspiration

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think kids in Europe have developed a deeper knowledge of music and of black music in particular. You go to Europe, and these kids know about all this obscure funk and soul that kids over here wouldn't know. I think it's getting better in the States, though, with the age of the Internet.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Kids, Thinking, Europe

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There's one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things that I'm interested in now I can sort of trace back to that museum, which introduced me to them.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Museums, Houston, Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't have any particular expertise-I've never been a banker or an investment banker. But I did see an evolution in the system that I thought was problematic.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Bankers, Evolution, Investment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I realized that after finding this thing that allowed me to express myself - acting - and being encouraged by a few people that I could do it, I had kind of grabbed onto it and dug in my claws in a way that was maybe a bit unhealthy. I allowed myself to get into a headspace where I lived or died by what I achieved in this particular field.

  Andrew Garfield

  People, Acting, Way

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• I'm very much for strengthening our industry at home. It's great now there's a lot of work happening but I think with Irish film in particular, the views were starting to get a little stereotypical and we were pigeonholing ourselves a little bit. We needed to get out of that.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Home, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• How do popular attitudes get formed? Do the movies just reflect it or inform it? Where does this particular idea come from? I don't know if I can say anything too illuminating.

  Thom Andersen

  Attitude, Ideas, Say Anything

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

  Danny Boyle

  Important, Mixtures, Compromise

  "Danny Boyle’s Portrait of a Man". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 19, 2015.

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• Every film comes out of an intuition, where I'm at, at that moment in particular. But looking back on my work, somehow I get back to masculinity and how men are taught to avoid showing how fragile they can be, or to people who are in constant movement.

  Omar Zuniga

  Men, People, Intuition

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.

  Marge Piercy

  Life Is, Economic, Circumstances

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text means practically nothing in a way - , there's no particular performance that is definitive in the way a novel is a solid object you hold in your hands and here it is. You can't say that about a play. If the novel gives us a sense of throbbing consciousness, theater is pure soul, beautiful and elusive.

  Don DeLillo

  Beautiful, Mean, Frustration

  Interview with Marc Chénetier, François Happe, perival.com. March 11, 1999.

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• I have always admired organizations that help children grow and learn, and organizations that protect and shelter children when no one else does. And I wanted to draw attention to these organizations and recognize the contributions they were making to the country and to our children in particular.

  Laura Bush

  Country, Children, Organization

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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