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• I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

  Boyd Holbrook

  House, Building, Architect

  "Boyd Holbrook On Film". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 30, 2014.

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• You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

  Shanola Hampton

  Different, Complaining, World

  "5 Questions w/ 'Shameless' Star Shanola Hampton". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. January 10, 2013.

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• A lot of people have used the frog splash over the years. Every one else that used it is a four star frog splash, when RVD did it, it became a five star frog splash.

  CM Punk

  Stars, Years, People

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• It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.

  John Boyega

  Other Cultures, Long, People

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

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• I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.

  Lily Cole

  Social, Should, Believer

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

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• I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Writing, Thinking, Worry

  "Real-life romance" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.

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• I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

  Katie Aselton

  Intelligent, Thinking, Sound

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

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• I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

  Aneurin Barnard

  Father, Age, Watches

  "The Truth About Aneurin Barnard". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2012.

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• The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.

  Ben Wheatley

  Drama, Reality, Detectives

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• Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about... whatever. Now we're walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk had a fight with a robot.

  Simon Pegg

  Fighting, Journey, Emotional

  "First Star Trek 3 Script Was Too Star Trek-y Says Pegg" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 20, 2015.

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• The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Girl, Kids, Grandchildren

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones (1964). “The changing world: an editor's outlook”

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• I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.

  Sophie Hannah

  Jobs, Husband, College

  "Sophie Hannah: 'It's surprising how many poems turn out to be about sex'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2014.

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• People used to share things with e-mail on a massive scale. If you remember e-mail forwards from the late ’90s, it was a terrible way to share content.

  Jonah Peretti

  People, Mail, Way

  "Miranda July and Jonah Peretti on Reading Other People’s E-Mail". Interview with Jesse Ashlock, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. July 11, 2013.

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• I am very close to my family. I have learned a lot from my father. He used to tell me to be honest with yourself and not to argue with your seniors. You dont need to be involved in any quarrel, as sometimes you need to remain silent intelligently.

  Suresh Raina

  Senior, Father, Needs

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• There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement.

  Jimmy Page

  Distance, Guitar, Two

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• there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.

  George Eliot

  Two, Way, Audience

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.77

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• Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
  [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

  Tacitus

  Power, Guilt, Purpose

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• I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Travel, Men

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1546, Delphi Classics

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• He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

  William Wordsworth

  Faculty, Infancy, Contempt

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• It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.

  Margaret Kennedy

  Thinking, People, Worry

  Margaret Kennedy (2014). “Ladies of Lyndon”, p.100, Random House

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• Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

  Plautus

  Delight, Riches

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• In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Names, Ancient, Virtue

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• though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

  Pearl S. Buck

  War, Men, Hands

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Dragon Seed: A Novel of China at War”, p.451, Open Road Media

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• The first (barbers) that entered Italy came out of Sicily and it was in the 454 yeare after the foundation of Rome. Brought in they were by P. Ticinius Mena as Verra doth report for before that time they never cut their hair. The first that was shaven every day was Scipio Africanus, and after cometh Augustus the Emperor who evermore used the razor.

  Pliny the Elder

  Cutting, Hair, Rome

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 57, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter LIX. Holland's translation, 1922.

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• Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Character, Mean

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.377

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