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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
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"Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own."

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Oliver Parker Film Director
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"f you're making the scene as a director, you're looking for alternatives, once you've got to that place that's very much in Rowan's [Atkins] head, to see if you can take it further, in some places. Sometimes you do absolutely know there's something there. You just feel it in your bones."

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Oliver Stone Filmmaker, Screenwriter
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"[When making movies I] set out to be authentic to [myself] and to put it down the way [I] feel it and know it and interpret it. And then others sometimes key into it and get it."

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Oliver Stone Filmmaker, Screenwriter
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"A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line."

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Mae West Actress, Singer, Screenwriter
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"Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints."

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"I've personally been on the outside sometimes. But I was - I personally was never persecuted especially in the way in which sharing my own experiences."

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Lara Stone Model
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"Sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird."

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Karen Allen Actress
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"The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films."

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Ice T Rapper, Actor
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"It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do here. That was the first time I ever heard rap considered folk music. And sometimes somebody will make you understand like, "Hey, what you doin' is serious, don't play it lightly 'cause it's changin' my life.""

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"You learn that Hollywood has its own rules, sometimes. And it's tricky, and sometimes you can't see what's coming around the corner."

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Larry King Television Host
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"Someone once said, "I don't lie because then I don't have to remember anything." I've told white lies a lot. Sometimes when you tell stories you'll embellish them a little, especially with foxhole humor."

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