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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
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"Hemingway and Saroyan had the line, the magic of it. The problem was that Hemingway didn't know how to laugh and Saroyan was filled with sugar."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine."

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Billy West Voice Actor
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"But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do."

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Ali MacGraw Actress
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"In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned."

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Amy Adams Actress
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"I watched The Muppet Movie obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear."

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Amy Hill Actress
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"I'm usually sort of ambiguous in terms of whether I'm playing a good person or a bad person. I can walk that line of funny but also dark, and I'm happy doing that."

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Aya Cash Actress
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"I've always just shown up to set and said the lines, [but] I want to help develop scripts and help cast and help bring a visual tone to something."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods."

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Vanilla Ice Rapper
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"And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair."

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Veronica Roth Author
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"If the Dauntless knew about this, everyone would be getting in line to learn how to drive it,” he says. “Including me.” “No, they would be strapping themselves to the wings.” Christina pokes his arm. “Don’t you know your own faction?"

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