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“I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.”

“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.”

“My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.”

“Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.”

“Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.”

“Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.”

“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”

“Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.”

“In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.”

“Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this dispute from the ivory tower into day-to-day decision-making. Is it right to write? The publishing industry is slowly beginning to commit to using sustainably harvested trees.”

“Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.”

“I avoid oily food and in fact my friends get mad at me as I don't have cake even on my own birthday. I do have a sweet tooth though for chocolates.”

“And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.”

“In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.”

“I don't need no extra attention from nobody. I'm good.”

“Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.”

“You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.”

“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”

“I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do.”

“James Gunn runs his set like a 12-year-old's birthday party. Every day, he is so excited to come to work.”

“The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.”