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Gabriel Mann Actor, Musician
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"For me as an actor because I've been at it so long, it becomes much harder to watch movies because you really see the seams of everything."

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"He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock."

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Justice, Jurist, Author
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"But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye."

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Oliver Stone Filmmaker, Screenwriter
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"I believe in intermissions. I lived through this experience with JFK and Nixon. JFK should have had an intermission. It should have come right after the Donald Sutherland scene, because then there's just too much information flooding in. You need a break. Same on Nixon. It was a long film, but I couldn't help it, with that kind of subject."

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Olivia Wilde Actress, Producer, Director
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"I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits."

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Olivia Wilde Actress, Producer, Director
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"Looking natural takes so long! If you look at the runways, the look for models is predominantly natural, isn't it?"

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"I shouldn't have stayed so long away. Every time I come here, I get so supercharged with energy. I truly believe that Israel is the energy centre of the world. And I also believe that if we can all live together in harmony in this place, then we can live in peace all over the world."

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"The End of a long week with Viking Leader AKA DJ Virgo AKA Avicii! So many great songs! #icantwait #revolution"

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"There's that layering of selves that we can have with someone else across a long relationship. I go to the baths, the Korean spa. I love looking at the maps of people's bodies. The women have so many mastectomy scars and ectopic pregnancy scars and stretch marks, and all these things are amazing and wondrous to me. I guess I find it stranger not to attend to flux than to attend to it. But in a relationship it's also scary - you don't know where you're going to end up when you go through change."

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Maggie Smith Actress
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"I just did adore Daniel - Daniel Radcliffe, who I had worked with before "Harry Potter" and spent a long time telling all the producers they had to see him because I thought he was so terrific. And it's been sad thinking about it because of Alan Rickman."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?"

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