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People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.
Paul Theroux
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.


Natalie Massenet
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Don't get too set on becoming an actor at an early age. I think that's where some people get into trouble. Acting becomes their life. I don't want that.
Freddie Highmore
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The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right.


Nigel Lawson
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Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.
Morley Safer
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I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.
Ariel Garten
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
Edith Sitwell
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Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.
Roger von Oech
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That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.
Winona Ryder
As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.
Ross MacDonald
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It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.


Tom Petri
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My kids are exhausted every day, and I keep them that way. It's gym, ice, homework. They're too tired to get in trouble.
Nelson Peltz
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My style icon actually is my three sisters. I love the way they dress and the way they put things together. I definitely get most of my style from them.
Kendall Jenner
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I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.
Gwyneth Paltrow
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Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.


Douglas Coupland
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I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.
Charles Stross
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
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You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.


Bill Bryson
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The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.
Chris Robinson
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I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble.
Kris Kristofferson
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