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“The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.”
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“Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.”
Source : "Newsweek's Evan Thomas: Obama Is 'Sort of God'". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.newsbusters.org. June 5, 2009. 
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“I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.”
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“Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.”
Source : James Agate (1944). “Ego 6: Once More the Autobiography of James Agate”
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“My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time reading the press. It's often the new acts that strike a chord, because they aren't seen on other shows.”
Source : "The taste-makers" by Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2005.
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“Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.”
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“I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Whenever I get a tweet that's trying to promote a thing someone cares about, I'm like, "how annoying!"”
