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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used."

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Russell Brand Comedian, Actor
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"This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
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"We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate."

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J. D. Salinger Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are... Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall."

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
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"She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry them, boil them and eat them hot?"

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Gareth Gates Singer
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"Although I fancy Britney, I think Shakira is hot too. Maybe I could let them fight over me. I'm a young lad and I've got to keep my options open."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"I could eat a feeling faster than anybody, put a little hot sauce on it and wouldn't recognize it until it showed up on my behind three days later."

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Fiona Shaw Actress
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"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
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"I don't know why a beauty salon would have a cop's hat and the curling irons are not deadly unless they're still plugged in and they're hot. So I'm not quite sure about that. But I don't know who remembers anymore that you can ignite spray cans, plus there aren't really any spray cans anymore 'cause that was destroying the ozone layer. So I'm - actually, I'll have to go with they chased him with the curling irons."

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Lauren Oliver Author
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"Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache."

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"Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close attention. He is telling us the story of the free spirit that is doing everything it can to escape from within him. That same kind of spirit is inside me, inside you. There-you can hear it, I'm sure: the hot breath, the shivering heart. (Thailand)"

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