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Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies – and it is free, and it is fast. – Nicholson Baker

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Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. – Nicholson Baker

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When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. – Nicholson Baker

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Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking Can women be funny? People still ask that. Its like asking: Can women breathe in and out? – Julie Walters

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The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if its a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But its so much more alienating than vegetarianism. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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The funny thing is Im not bothered or sad about being on my own – after all Ive never had a husband. – Francesca Annis

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Its painful for me to watch someone who isnt funny. Its horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks. – Joe Rogan

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With most British actors, its amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in. – Norman Jewison

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We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there. – Wilson Greatbatch

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When I was younger – it might be a romantic idea – I always thought I might go crazy. – Diane Kruger

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