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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
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"Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in Excalibur. That was the first thing I said to her. "I loved you as Morgan Le Fay.""

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Nigel Cole Film Director
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"I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny."

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"When I did my first solo show and it made my dad uncomfortable, I wasn't quite ready for my spotlight moment in my life yet. I didn't have enough sense of myself and self-esteem and confidence: this is when I started looking to get my master's in something."

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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"The best thing you can give is God consciousness. Manifest your own divinity first. The truth is there. It's right within us all. Understand what you are."

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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"You can't understand the first thing about God unless you love Him. These big so - called Vedic scholars - they don't necessarily love Krishna, so they can't understand Him and give Him to us."

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Lennox Lewis Professional Boxer
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"There are still a lot of Mike Tyson fans out there, and a lot of disbelievers in the first fight, and they want to see us fight again. I am the emperor. If he wants to fight, I am here. If he does not, I understand."

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