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“I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.”

“When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.”

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“I have always loved running on the roads, ever since I used to take part in relays for my club when I was 12 and 13. I felt really at home on the surface.”

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Author:Paula Radcliffe

“Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.”

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Author:Rene Redzepi

“Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.”

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Author:Richard Roeper

“I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.”

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Author:Stuart Rose

“When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.”

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Author:Wayne Rooney

“I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.”

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Author:Alana Stewart

“No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.”

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Author:Albert Speer

“When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that “civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.” The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.”

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Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, “What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?” Like, everyone collectively decided, “We’re done!” Over time I got more confidence.”

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Author:Ben Silbermann

“It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.”

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Author:Chesley Sullenberger

“I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day. It used to be sushi, but these days I cannot stop eating mac and cheese. I haven't had it from a box in a long time, but I'll make it homemade style with four types of cheeses, lots of milk, maybe a little ketchup. I don't know, I'm crazy like that.”

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Author:Cobie Smulders

“I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.”

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Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“I used to watch 'Coming to America' every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved 'The Golden Child,' so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.”

“I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.”

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Author:John Slattery

“I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.”

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Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.”

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Author:Andy Summers

“As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.”

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Author:Boz Scaggs

“There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.”

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Author:Boz Scaggs

“You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!”

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Author:Bubba Sparxxx

“I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist.”

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Author:Emeli Sande

“The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.”

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Author:Howard Stringer

“Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.”

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Author:Jane Smiley

“The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.”

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Author:John Sweeney

“My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.”

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Author:Kodi Smit-McPhee

“Love can be used to drain people. Through eye contact people send a cord out to drain you long distance. Through sexual manipulation, anyone who can make you like them can drain you.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.”

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Author:Hank Aaron

“Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew.”

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Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.”

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Author:Peter S. Beagle

“If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the British a lot of trouble because they were kind of white and uptight. It didn't quite fit. How could a temple of God be covered with pictures of people, in their term, fornicating?”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.”

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Author:Gail Carson Levine

“I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.”

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Author:Francis Lawrence

“I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.”

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Author:Julian Lennon

“I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.”

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Author:J.K. Simmons

“My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.”

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Author:Jason Statham

“The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?”

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Author:Maggie Smith

“When I was 14 I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.”

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Author:Mark E. Smith

“Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.”

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Author:Maurice Saatchi

“I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.”

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Author:Michael Shannon

“I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.”

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Author:Nicholas Stern

“I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.”

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Author:Parker Stevenson

“I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.”

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Author:Regina Spektor

“If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.”

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Author:Richard Serra

“I don't go to games as much as I used to because of the NFL's Sunday Ticket. So I'll watch the games, take notes.”

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Author:Steve Sabol

“Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.”

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Author:Tom Sizemore

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