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“People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.”

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Author:Liam Payne

“But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.”

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Author:Abbey Lincoln

“Everyone wants to be immortal. Few are. Margaret Thatcher is. Why? Because her values are timeless, eternal. Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the world, and ask what Mrs Thatcher believed in, and they will tell you. They can give a clear answer to what she 'stood for.”

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Author:Maurice Saatchi

“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.”

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Author:Morley Safer

“If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.”

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Author:Payne Stewart

“Players don't really ask for much or want much. But the things that they do need are important.”

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Author:Sheryl Swoopes

“I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.”

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Author:Yulia Tymoshenko

“If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that.”

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Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber

“It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to decide what you play. I don't know. I can only say this: I don't want to and have no interest in playing a plastic surgeon. That's for sure. I'm open to anything else.”

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Author:Dylan Walsh

“Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself!”

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Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.”

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Author:Steve Lacy

“When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.”

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Author:Tamara Mellon

“If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!”

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Author:Terrence Malick

“What questions do I want my audience to ask?”

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Book:Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

Source: Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

“I figure there are enough self-opinionated assholes trying to get their ugly little faces in front of you as it is. You ask a lot of kids today what they want to be when they grow up, and they say, 'I want to be famous.' You ask them, 'For what reason?' and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong - in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes.”

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Author:Banksy

“It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it. It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.”

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Book:The Fairyland Series

Source: The Fairyland Series

“Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can't. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not TV. Art of all kinds is an interactive challenge. The person who makes the work and the person who comes to the work both have a job to do. I am never wilfully obscure, but I do ask for some effort.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

“You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.”

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Author:Tarsem Singh

“Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. [...] Every now and then I ask myself, 'What is it that I would want said?' I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If you are obsessively active, please at least pause to ask yourself why and to listen for the answer from the still, quiet voice alive and well within you. I don't have an answer for the hurry sickness afflicting our society and our souls. But I do trust that the how-to-stop-it is within you, and you can change your pace if you want to.”

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Author:Sue Thoele

“I think we must ask ourselves if this is really what we want to do to God's creation, to drive it to extinction? Because extinction really is irreversible; species that go extinct are lost forever. This is not like Jurassic Park. We can't bring them back.”

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Author:Stuart L. Pimm