"And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.“

-Elizabeth Gilbert

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"I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life."

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"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life."

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"I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding."

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"As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change."

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"My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis."

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"When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself."

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"I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music. I had to discover it for myself."

-Tony Kanal

"Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing."

-Austin Butler

"I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as a kid. Someone drew me, and actually did a pretty good job!"

-Rutina Wesley

"I thought that 'Twilight' would be a kind of girl movie, but it was cool."

-Kodi Smit-McPhee

"Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, 'This guy is very cool.' I wanted to be like him when I was a kid."

-Jim Sturgess

"Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises."

-John Dobbin