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  • Ben Folds My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Ben Affleck My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • William Shakespeare My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Augusten Burroughs My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Barbara Park My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My sister can walk down the street and just know what's going on with people. She'll say, 'Oh, they're going through a divorce' or, 'Their kid just went off to college' or, 'He just got a great job.'
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Johnny Carson My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
    Johnny Carson
    American TV personality, businessman (1925 - 2005)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Francis Bacon Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • John Ruskin Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Mark Twain Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Richard Nixon Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Satchel Paige Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
    Satchel Paige
    African-American baseball player (1906 - 1982)
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  • Jesse Jackson Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Charles Lamb Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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