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I think it's mainly when I need inspiration I look at the old pictures. I don't find it as much in the new stuff. I love Carole Lombard. I think she's wonderful. Gloria Grahame was really great. Garbo. Dietrich. People knew how to create an illusion. Now everything is very realistic and straightforward. Everyone's grunge.
Kelly Rutherford / Actress
Inspiration
New Stuff
Realistic
Straightforward
Wonderful
Love Great Look
Mainly
Pictures
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The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.
John Travolta / Actor
Accepting
Audience
Careers
Luxury
Track
Wonderful
Good Great Enough
Good Great Always
Bad Guy
Buy
Execute
Material
Wherever
Wonderful Thing
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I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
Kate Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Friends
Imagination
Full Life
Imaginary
Mean
Stuff
Toys
Used
Wonderful
Life World People
Full
Sort
Incredibly
Invented
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There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.
Shakti Gawain / Author
Knowledge
Wisdom
Access
Feels
Force
Given
Intelligent
Intelligent Life
Intuition
Source
Universal
Wonderful
Life Wisdom Knowledge
Within
Everyone
Any Given Moment
True
Through
Deep
Each
Each One
Exists
Inner
Moment
Resides
Sense
Tells
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Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.
Nick Davies /
Daily Life
Defined
Existence
Fascinating
Frightening
Obvious
Predictable
Safety
Suffocating
Wonderful
Now
Life Daily World
Banal
Life Culture World
Full
Daily
Imbecile
Place
Merely
Mysteries
Remain
Tracks
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There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.
Burt Rutan / Aerospace Engineering
Airplane
Brother
Country
Flew
Hey
Marvelous
Pilots
Wonderful
Wright Brothers
Time People Short
Time People I Can
Brothers
Countries
Period
Early
Short
Few People
Four-Year
Hundreds
Ooh
The Wright Brothers
Thousands
Time Period
Wright
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As long as I focus on what I feel and don't worry about where I'm going, it works out. Having no expectations but being open to everything is what makes wonderful things happen. If I don't worry, there's no obstruction and life flows easily. It sounds impractical, but 'Expect nothing; be open to everything' is really all it is.
Marketa Irglova / Singer-Songwriter
Expectations
Focus
Long
Obstruction
Things Happen
Wonderful
Wonderful Things
Work Out
Open
Works
Easily
Expect
Flows
Happen
Having
Impractical
Makes
Sounds
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I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.
Edward Norton / Actor
Angry
Fascinated
Feelings
Freeze
Frightened
People
Volume
Way
Wonderful
Counter
Contradictions
Emotions
Express
Responses
Tend
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What's wonderful about 'Star Trek' having been rebooted so successfully by the J. J. Abrams movie franchise is that - the corollary effect is that it creates a new generation of fans, and they're interested in all of it. They don't just sit around and wait for the next movie to come out; they'll go back and re-examine episodes.
Robert Picardo /
Movie
Episodes
Fans
New Generation
Wonderful
Interested
Star
Corollary
Creates
Effect
Franchise
Generation
Wait
Re-Examine
Star Trek
Successfully
Trek
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I really believe that the more distractions and fixes I remove from my life, the better I'll feel about myself. The biggest of those is Depeche Mode. It's the one marriage that survived, but I'm not sure it works - for me, anyway. Jumping on a plane to go somewhere else and be told how wonderful I am doesn't feel good any more.
Dave Gahan / Singer-Songwriter
Marriage
Feel Good
Jumping
Remove
Somewhere Else
Survived
Wonderful
Life Good Myself
Sure
Anyway
Life Good Marriage
Somewhere
Biggest
Works
Depeche
Distractions
Mode
Plane
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Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.
Janine Di Giovanni / Author
Beautiful City
Hills
Medieval
Rockets
Siege
Wonderful
Artists
Beautiful City People
Bosnian
Side
City
Full
Cosmopolitan
Writers
Grenades
Muslims
Poets
Wonderful People
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By 1973, we had a space station, the Skylab, and we had multiple probes going up to planets. So, all this wonderful stuff happened in 10 to 15 years. About that time, there should have been enormous initiatives to make it affordable for people to fly in space, not just a handful of trained NASA astronauts and Russian cosmonauts.
Burt Rutan / Aerospace Engineering
Space
Affordable
Enormous
Handful
Multiple
Nasa
Planets
Stuff
Wonderful
Astronauts
Initiatives
Space Station
Trained
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If my son came to me years from now and told me, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'That's wonderful. I'm so glad you know who you are.' But if he said, 'I want to be a woman,' I would say, 'Ahhh. This is gonna be hard. Let's get started.' Because it doesn't matter that that's where happiness lies - it's on the other side of a lot of struggle.
Vivienne Ming /
Glad
Son
Struggle
Wonderful
Happiness Lies
Lies
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If I am told my loving you had to happen because of some Freudian stuff about my childhood, that might be degrading or deflationary, but if I am told it had to happen because you are such a wonderful person that I couldn't possibly resist your charms, or because we are so incredibly compatible, then necessity seems very romantic.
Nomy Arpaly / Philosopher
Childhood
Loving You
Wonderful
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I'm just a country boy from north Georgia, and I have three children and a wonderful wife. And when I look at my three children, who are 8, 11, and 12, and they really represent the faces and the future of the children all across my congressional district, and what the Tea Party stands for is not extremism; it's about their future.
Tom Graves / U.s. Representative
Future
Country
Country Boy
Extremism
Faces
Georgia
Party
Tea
Tea Party
Three
Wonderful
Across
Boy
District
Congressional
Represent
North
Stands
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You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
Buddy Hackett / Comedian
Boys
Brooklyn
Growing Up
Tick
Wiser
Wonderful
Years
Me Nobody Know
Boy
Nobody
Leave
Entered
Hawk
Magazine
Nest
Richer
Wonderful Thing
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I came up with the idea of a daredevil who's going to go upside down, in a metal car, at 90 mph, and it's never been done before. I get into this metal car, I'm strapped in. You pull back, and it's a roller coaster at Magic Mountain, with kids and nuns and everything else! I pass out while everybody else is having a wonderful time.
Bob Einstein /
Car
Daredevil
Done
Magic
Mountain
Mph
Roller Coaster
Upside Down
Wonderful
Came
Idea
Coaster
Everybody Else
Having
Metal
Nuns
Pass
Pull
Roller
Strapped
Upside
While
Wonderful Time
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I would have to say 'The Crucible' stands out because it was one of the best experiences I've ever had, but, you know, Arthur Miller being present on the set - which was wonderful and incredible - but, to have him in your eye line is quite intimidating. It's such a beautiful language he created, so that was challenging but exciting.
Winona Ryder / Actress
Arthur
Crucible
Eye
Intimidating
Wonderful
Quite
Set
Experiences
Line
Miller
Present
Stands
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Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the years that I was at Columbia. The Downbeat Jazz Poll. Leonard Feather, who was a huge critic back in the day, different polls that he had. The Playboy poll, a number of polls. So the music was great.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Audience
Columbia
Huge
Jazz
Playboy
Records
Wonderful
Great Music Me
Music Great Me
Critic
Won
Number
Feather
Label
Poll
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I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I'm totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.
Richard Branson / Business Magnate
Forgiveness
Biographies
Holiday
Nelson
Vision
Wonderful
Twice
Totally
Autobiographies
Every Time
Generally
Walk
Honoured
Least
Mandela
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Finally if I had a pot that needed decoration, I would hand it to Alix [MacKenzie] and I would say, "Can you do something with this?" And she'd look at it for a while and then proceed with a brush to embellish the form and enhance the form, and it was wonderful. She could bring the pot to life, whereas if I did it, it was a disaster.
Warren Mackenzie /
Hands
Looks
Wonderful
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What's lovely about 'Eureka' is that it's a sci-fi show, but it's not monsters from outer space; it's not craziness from outer space. It's just about this community of people and what they do. These geniuses have sometimes done wonderful things and sometimes created global warming. It has this wonderful left-of-center sense of humor.
Joe Morton / Television Actor
Humor
Space
Craziness
Done
Global Warming
Lovely
Monsters
Outer Space
Sci Fi
Sense Of Humor
Wonderful
Wonderful Things
Show
Eureka
Geniuses
Global
Outer
Sense
Warming
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I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.
Elizabeth Gilbert / Author
Affection
Down The Road
Ends
Excitement
First Kiss
Love Story
Night
Passion
Romance
Wisest
Wonderful
Love Great World
Love Great Look
Begins
Love Great Passion
Deal
Expect
Great Deal
Necessarily
Road
Story
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Producing is a wonderful foil to being an actor: acting being largely about getting out of my head, being present, a little irresponsible, whilst producing is the polar opposite. You need other players to act; you can't act in a void, but producing is about making something out of nothing - conjuring a thought or an idea into reality.
Juliet Rylance /
Irresponsible
Reality
Void
Wonderful
Opposite
Act
Actor
Idea
Getting
Foil
Head
Largely
Making
Present
Polar
Producing
Whilst
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Shooting of a sex scene is never going to something where you're having a wonderful time. It's a very intimate thing and a very intimate space to be put into - that's usually a space reserved for one. To have someone else in that proximity is pretty jarring, but we're all in the same boat and we're all experiencing the same anxieties.
Antony Starr / Television Actor
Anxiety
Boat
Wonderful
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The wonderful police officers who spend time with me I don't think appreciate that, but I do still drive. I do still cook: not often, but just last week, I really felt like making one of my mum's old recipes - so I did. I do still go to our local department store to buy things like maternity jeans that no one else can really do for me.
Jacinda Ardern /
Appreciate
Department
Felt
Jeans
Maternity
Mum
Officers
Police
Recipes
Week
Wonderful
Time Me Drive
Drive
Buy
Cook
Department Store
Spend
Last
Local
Police Officers
Store
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Being appointed as the next Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester is a completely overwhelming honour. This extraordinary orchestra and its wonderful musicians are unique in so many respects, and particularly in their creation of an exceptional sound world based on outstanding tradition that is, at its heart, inspirational.
Andris Nelsons /
Inspirational
Creation
Exceptional
Extraordinary
Honour
Next
Orchestra
Outstanding
Sound
Unique
Wonderful
Appointed
Based
Particularly
Many Respects
Musicians
Respects
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When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.
John Kenneth Galbraith / Economist
Law
Sea
Wonderful
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You don't have to be very brilliant. You don't have to have such a wonderful education. You can be an outstanding success if you will only take what little you have, whether it's little or much, and start using it, putting it into operation, doing something about it, and doing something with it. And, of course, that calls for initiative.
Napoleon Hill / Author
Brilliant
Littles
Wonderful
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Greg Rucka always writes lovely, believable female characters in books like 'Whiteout,' 'Queen and Country,' and 'Lazarus.' I am a fan of Kelly Sue DeConnick, who does a wonderful female lead in 'Captain Marvel.' And DC's 'Batwoman' is currently the only book at the Big Two with a lesbian solo lead character, and it's always outstanding.
Gail Simone / Writer
Believable
Book
Character
Country
Female
Female Characters
Lovely
Outstanding
Solo
Two
Wonderful
Always Character I Am
Does
Currently
Fan
Captain
Dc
Lead
Queen
Lead Character
Lesbian
Marvel
Sue
Writes
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In those times when a kid first tries to express themselves creatively, it sets them on a different path. Sometimes, that path can be really wonderful and can lead to a career doing some of the things you love. I also think that the price on that is a certain amount of alienation or distance created between a lot of the people around you.
Paul Dini / Writer
Alienation
Amount
Certain
Different
Distance
Path
Wonderful
Love People Sometimes
Between
Career
Created
Creatively
Different Path
Times
Express
Lead
Price
Sets
Themselves
Tries
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'Lady Bird' probably doesn't need more attention than it has gotten. It's a perfect movie, and some of its perfection is in its casting, but this is a movie crammed with wonderful work by people who aren't Laurie Metcalf and Saoirse Ronan: people like Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and, yes, that Timothee Chalamet.
Wesley Morris / Journalist
Attention
Bird
Casting
Perfect
Tracy
Wonderful
Crammed
Gotten
Lady
Lucas
Yes
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I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's a wonderful place; it looks over the Hudson River. I can see 30 miles into New Jersey. My landlord would like me to die because the rent is very low. I'm trying to outlive him. He can get a lot more if I disappear.
Mark Margolis /
Apartment
Disappear
Fashionable
Jersey
Landlord
Looks
Miles
New Jersey
Trendy
Wonderful
Die
Hudson
Low
Neighbourhood
Outlive
Rent
River
Wonderful Place
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My mother was the greatest mother in the world. She thought I was the greatest thing on two feet. I'd come home with a little composition I had written at school, and she'd look at it and say, 'It's wonderful! You're another Shakespeare!' I always assumed I could do anything. It really is amazing how much that has to do with your attitude.
Stan Lee / Comic Book Writer
Amazing
Attitude
Composition
Feet
Mother
Wonderful
Written
Greatest
Assumed
Greatest Thing
How Much
Shakespeare
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People are stubborn about what they perceive to be the right thing or the wrong thing, and it takes a long time to filter this human condition. There's a waiting period until people catch up. But if you have patience - which it takes when someone thinks differently from you - everybody always catches up. That patience is a wonderful virtue.
Johnny Mathis / Singer
Patience
Human Condition
Long
Long Time
People
Right Thing
Stubborn
Virtue
Waiting
Wonderful
Everybody
Time Waiting Always
Thing
Condition
Always
Someone
Catch
Differently
Period
Until
Wrong
Human
Filter
Wrong Thing
Right
Takes
The Right Thing
Thinks
Which
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At first, 'Family Ties' seemed to just be a wonderful project of its time. These were the Reagan years, the new conservatism. Alex P. Keaton quickly became the Fonzie of the '80s, so it seemed very much a product of its time. But I soon began to realize that it went far beyond that. These great family shows transcend whatever time they are in.
Michael Gross /
Conservatism
Family Ties
Great Family
Ties
Wonderful
Time Family Great
Became
Began
Beyond
Far
Family Time Great
Project
Just Be
Product
Quickly
Reagan
Realize
Seemed
Soon
Transcend
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I'm extremely positive about investment in Africa. Africa has a wonderful climate, wonderful people, and amazing possibilities. Africa has been called dark and hopeless, but today it is neither of these. Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. It's the best place to invest.
Christoffel Wiese /
Positive
Amazing
Awakening
Dark
Hopeless
Huge
Investment
Population
Resources
Today
Wonderful
Young
Africa
Almost
Billion
Invest
Extremely
Place
Market
Neither
Wonderful People
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She (Judy Garland) was a friend of mine, a trying friend, but a friend. That is what I tell myself: She did everything she ever wanted to do. She never really denied herself anything for me. See, I say, she had a wonderful life; she did what she wanted to do. And I have no right to change her fulfillment into my misery. I'm on my own broom now.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Misery
Trying
Wonderful
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I love a great melody and wonderful lyrics that speak from the heart, and my music has that and speaks about it; but there's just something that was really raw and energetic about the early House music. It's hard to describe. It's like you had to go to these parties where the stuff was being played on these huge sound systems to really feel it.
Kaskade / Dj
Energetic
Melody
Sound
Wonderful
Love Music Great
Describe
Just Something
Parties
Raw
Speaks
Systems
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This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.
Oscar Wilde / Writer
Absurd
Serious
Wonderful
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'Game of Thrones,' people say that it's a fantasy series, but it's a hell of a lot more than that. It attracts the so-called geeks and nerds, and God bless them, they're wonderful for getting right into the show. But primarily it's about family; it's power and betrayal and jealousy. It's all those wonderful things that a fantastic drama is about.
Liam Cunningham /
Jealousy
Betrayal
Bless
Drama
Fantastic
Fantasy
God Bless
Hell
Series
Wonderful
Wonderful Things
Attracts
Game
Show
Getting
Game Of Thrones
Geeks
Nerds
People Say
Primarily
So-Called
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I can't tell you how lucky I feel. I've gotten to work Peter Facinelli 'American Odyssey,' and I got to do 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2' - which really gave me such a tremendous amount of pride and patriotism, and it was very close to my heart. I've really had such great support, so many great teachers, and so many wonderful people surrounding me.
Elena Kampouris /
Wedding
Patriotism
Amount
Lucky
Odyssey
Peter
Pride
Support
Wonderful
Fat
Teachers
Close
Tremendous
Gave
Gotten
Great Teachers
Surrounding
Tremendous Amount
Wonderful People
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I got sent off to my grandmother's for five months and watched a lot of TV and had a lot of grilled cheese with butter on it - because she was English and put lots of butter on everything - and yogurt. The English are big on dairy products, you know? I'd have an earache, and she'd be like, "Here, have some milk." Wonderful woman, but she had kind of screwed-up nutrition ideas.
Nellie Mckay / Singer-Songwriter
Kind
Nutrition
Wonderful
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The highlight of my career was my first sale, to F&SF, in 1989. Nothing yet has topped that moment. I was weeping in joy and relief. Publishing one story was all that I ever wanted, or expected. Everything since then - award nominations, getting into best-of anthologies, meeting my idols at conventions, drinking with my idols at conventions - has been wonderful, but it's all gravy.
Daryl Gregory / Author
Drinking
Joy
Wonderful
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I did have a deal for a little while a cigar company that never really materialized that much, except that I ended up with 100 boxes of my own cigars with my signature on them. Which is great, they are wonderful cigars but they never really fulfilled out so now I'm out of it. I can sign up with somebody else or go pick a blend or whatever. I probably will, there is no sense in not doing it.
Ron White / Stand-Up Comedian
Littles
Signatures
Wonderful
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Wasn't that a wonderful thing that I had a chance to work with more great actors, big stars, than just about anyone in the history of Hollywood? And some days I didn't know with whom I'd be standing face-to-face, and I was so impressed because they were all really wonderful people. And when you work with Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, George Sanders as Mr. Freeze, it's a wonderful experience.
Adam West / Actor
Chance
People
Wonderful
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I never feel there's anything I can't do with comics. There are certain things in comics that you can't do in any other medium: for instance, in Mister Wonderful, Marshall's narration overlaps the events as they're going on. That would be difficult in film; you could blot speech out with a voiceover, but it wouldn't have the same effect. That's always of interest, to see what new things you can do in comics form.
Daniel Clowes / Cartoonist
Difficult
Film
Wonderful
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The only reason the word "brand" gets a little tiresome is that something that is complex and wonderful and deep begins to sound like a can of tomato soup. I recoil at that, but I'm used to it. I know what it means: It means that The New Yorker is not merely the magazine that comes out in print once a week. It's the Web site, it's the festival, it's our mobile application - all these things - and what they stand for and what they mean.
David Remnick / Journalist
Mean
Week
Wonderful
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I'm now much more excited about genre distinctions. What I still see breaking down are more the hierarchical arrangements of genres. That is, "There is literary fiction, and then there are lesser genres." I'm much more clear on the idea that literary fiction is itself a genre. It is not above other genres. It is down there in the muck with all the other genres, and it's doing the wonderful things that it does, but to give it a Y-axis, to make it high and low, just seems absurd. I stand by that.
Lev Grossman / Novelist
Excited
Giving
Wonderful
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