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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
Being Real

"Trying to tell you I'm the one, come and holla at me before I'm on the next thing, YMCMB."

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Coco Rocha Model
Being Real

"Everyone thinks that because my dad was really well known for his body that I would have that pressure too, but the truth is that I don't look at those pictures of him being really muscley and say, "yep that's really what I want to look like!""

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Being Real

"Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic."

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Hannah Murray Actress
Being Real

"Ive always loved musical films; I find them really thrilling and exciting; it was part of what made me want to be an actress, that feeling of being really transported."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good."

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Lea Thompson Actress
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"As a mother, anyone who has a teenager can attest to being really excited when they have something positive to be putting their energy into. They have so much energy, and it can go in the wrong direction."

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Frank Miller Comic Book Artist
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"But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence."

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Jane Austen Novelist
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"... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience."

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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
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"The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows."

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Kim Smith Artist
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"I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do."

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