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“Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.”
Source : Sir William PETTY (1769). “Tracts chiefly relating to Ireland, etc”, p.23
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“I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.”
Source : "'Newsies' Cast Talks Broadway and Big Breaks". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. March 14, 2012. 
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“There are three things, to my account, that I need each day. One of them is something to look up to, another is something to look forward to, and another is someone to chase.”
Source : Matthew McConaughey's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 2, 2014.
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“For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.”
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“I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.”
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“The more you own, the more it owns you.”
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“You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.”
Source : Stella Benson (1924). “Pipers and a dancer”
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“You always know when one of the first ["Harry Potter" movies] are on TV, because you'll get a text message from one of your friends saying, "How high was your voice?" It's like watching a home movie, in some sense. But you just remember because the audience sees the scenes as they're written, but we remember shooting [the scenes] and all the stories that came around it. Like the Quidditch World Cup in ["Harry Potter and the] Goblet of Fire," it's like the Glastonbury Festival at Leavesden [Studios].”
