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  • Bryce Dallas Howard '50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Ben Foster 'A Streetcar Named Desire' is one of the best, if not the best, modern American plays. It deals with family dynamics, mental health, PTSD, war, and love. It's hard to beat.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis 'Are the gods not just?'
    'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?'
    Source: Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956) Orual & The Fox
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bailey Chase 'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of fun, and I was obviously very excited about the opportunity to work with Rose Byrne and Glenn Close. I'd been a fan of that show before I started working on it.
    Bailey Chase
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Caitlin Rose 'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Carl Honore 'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Carl Lewis 'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz 'Returnless risk' is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Ben Lovett 'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Goyte has an odd, '80s vibe to it, but that does not mean that I did not like it. Quite the opposite actually. The song is different, and slowly lured me in. The video is just as strange, but definitely enjoyable.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Billy Graham 'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson 't Is not too late to seek a newer world.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • André Gide 'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • George Eliot 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Joseph Addison 'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • A. Sidney 'Tis not necessary to light a candle to the sun.
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  • Ezra Pound 'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • John Selden 'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • J. Seldon 'Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.
    J. Seldon
     
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  • W. M. Thackeray 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Robert Browning 'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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