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" I think anybody can cook if they take the time. " - Coolio

" Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you’re working all the time, so you’re learning rather than sitting around and waitressing. " - Lydia Leonard

" Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to ‘own’ them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again. " - Barry Ritholtz

" I would like to be a polyglot. " - Rachel Maddow

" For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language. " - Fabrice Luchini

" What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it’s never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you’ve missed something. " - Lakhdar Brahimi

" I told my wife once, ‘I feel like I’m getting paid to sit at the feet of Aristotle.’ Some people are like, ‘You’re comparing David Milch to Aristotle,’ and yeah, I am, but I’m not Plato. " - W. Earl Brown

" I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs. " - D. B. Sweeney

" People don’t know how to listen, and it’s not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write – but nobody teaches you how to listen. " - Daniel H. Pink

" When we were working on ‘River Ota’ in the ’90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it incorporates elements of Chinese calligraphy. " - Robert Lepage