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• I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.

  Phil Collins

  Song, Brother, Writing

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• 'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Christmas, Song, Kings

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• I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Hobbies, Bigger

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• Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Passion, Play, Piano

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• 'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

  Mason Cooley

  Ghetto, Roots, Faithful

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• I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

  Billy Corgan

  Play, Kind, My Own

  Interview with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2005.

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• My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

  Billy Corgan

  Jesus, Life Is Good, Guy

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• Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

  Sloane Crosley

  Reality, Tree, Brain

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• Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Mistake, Past, Choices

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• It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

  Matt Damon

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Trying

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

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• And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

  Larry David

  Writing

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• I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good!

  Paula Deen

  Southern, Magic, Secret

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• All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

  Beth Ditto

  Fashion, Kids, Nerd

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the 80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.

  Beth Ditto

  Eye, Gay, Way

  "In bed with Beth Ditto". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2011.

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• When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.

  Sheena Easton

  Tunes, Albums, Made

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• Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Believe, People, Computer

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• I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love.

  Todd English

  Giving, House, Trying

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• I'm a big fan of 'The Office,' both the British and the American versions.

  Tina Fey

  Office, Fans, Bigs

  "7 Questions with Tina Fey". Interview with Fred Topel, www.zimbio.com. May 7, 2008.

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• It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.

  Thomas Frank

  Disappointment, Party, Two

  "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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• There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery’s version of the Barack Obama “Hope” poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama’s Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists’ Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

  Thomas Frank

  Depressing, Portraits, Lobbyists

  "Obama and the K Street Set" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2009.

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• When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.

  David Gerrold

  War, Writing, Kids

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

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• I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Self, Things To Do

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• Oh my gosh, I’d give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it’s going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I’ve already forgotten.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Mean, Giving, Advice

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Talks Hygiene, Beauty Routines And Her Onscreen Characters For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Kari Friedlander, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

  Al Gore

  Creativity, People, Imagination

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• Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it's quite scary, 'cause I'm quite honest and open, they can be very revealing. But covers, I don't have to think about, just get me up there!

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Thinking, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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