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  • Penelope Fitzgerald It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.
    Penelope Fitzgerald
    English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer (1916 - 2000)
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  • Ben Nicholas It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.
    Ben Nicholas
    Australian actor
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  • Alex Trebek It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
    Alex Trebek
    Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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  • Bill Paxton It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Bow Wow It's weird because every movie that I do is always a role that reminds me of a role that 'Pac would have done. And when 'Pac did 'Juice,' he was young - probably like 21, 22 - something like that. And that's my favorite actor. I know it might be weird to say, but he was talented on screen, and that's who I studied.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Ella Higginson It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; The tear may be forgotten - but the hurt stays in the heart.
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  • Samuel Johnson Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Tsitsi Dangarembga It’s bad enough when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.
    Tsitsi Dangarembga
    Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker (1959 - )
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  • Beanie Sigel Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
    Beanie Sigel
    American rapper and actor (1974 - )
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  • Angela Davis Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Billy Corgan James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps - but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Burt Reynolds Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.
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  • Branford Marsalis Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • August Wilson Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Ornette Coleman Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
    Ornette Coleman
    American jazz musician (1930 - 2015)
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  • Billy Higgins Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
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  • Augustus William Hare Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Bethany Kennedy Scanlon Jealousy's vicious bulldog trampled through my soul. I was furious, no, furious is not a strong enough word; I was enraged with envy, hate, and malice toward a strange brunette kissing my boyfriend. What is that tramp doing with my man?
    Lori Lentrall, in Secrets of an Undercover Agent
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