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• You know, ‘The Golden Girls’ was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a show about old people, and it was a very traditional show, but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

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• Simon Monjack had nothing to do with ‘Factory Girl.’ He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us… making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel.

  George Hickenlooper

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• Every day is a learning experience for city kids, and they are really sort of forced to interact with everyone around them and develop into social beings.

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck

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• My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.

  Yusuf Hamied

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• I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

  Alan Sugar

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• No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

  Hilda Solis

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• I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.

  Hannah Simone

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• I wasn’t a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

  Rufus Sewell

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• When I began working in Yahoo, my family moved with me. Despite our efforts, our kids wanted to study in Los Angeles, and I was forced to see my family and friends only on weekends. In the beginning I even enjoyed it, but knew that at some stage I’d want to go back home.

  Terry Semel

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• It’s really good to be forced to get away and try something else, find something that’s exciting.

  John Scofield

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• You have to show Israel that it’s not going to be forced to do things it doesn’t want to do and can’t do.

  Charles Schumer

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• I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

  Irwin Shaw

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• Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I’m nothing without it.

  Nicole Scherzinger

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• I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

  Pierre Corneille

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• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced s*xual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

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• The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that’s not of your choosing simply because you’re out-voted.

  Ira Glasser

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• Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

  Imran Khan

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• What’s really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don’t intend to be one of them.

  Boy George

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• In most of the European countries – France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism – the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

  Fredric Jameson

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• Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

  Franz Liszt

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