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" My career, I look at it in a Darwinian framework. I'm going to do exactly what I want, and I'm going to survive, or I'm not. I'm not going to pander. I'm not going to change things. I'm not going to do focus groups. I'll live and die by the sword. I don't care. Because I couldn't live with myself. "

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Sitting

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David

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" Why buy a book when you can join a library. "

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Famous

Noisy

" The grass isn't always greener on the other side! "

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" Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are. "

" Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away. "

Ricky Gervais

Shut Up

Look

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" Where there's a will - there's a relative! "

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Only

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Out

Look

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Friends

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