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Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

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I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind. ↗

— Eva Mendes

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I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that way. I don't think people need to be married. I think a lot of people need that piece of paper, but I don't think everybody needs that to feel secure. ↗

— Eva Mendes

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Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant.' ↗

— Eva Mendes

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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character. ↗

— Sam Mendes

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It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself. ↗

— Sam Mendes

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It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen. ↗

— Gary Cherone

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You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals. ↗

— Rick Mercer

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We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet. ↗

— Thomas Menino

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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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