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I love general history. That`s all I read really. I don`t read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that`s really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love. I like micro-histories. I like reading about little tiny events, not huge. I read a lot. I live in horse country and I just read a book about Confederate guerrillas who came to the thoroughbred farm, my neighbors, and stole thoroughbreds for their mounts and they were worth thousands and thousands of dollars. That`s really interesting to me.

- Steve Zahn

(on acting in Austrailia) I was studying with this lady and I`d go to see these producers and I`d read for them or whatever and they`d all be like, `You`re great... but we don`t have anything for you.` I`d always be like the takeaway kid from the Chinese food store even though I`m Korean. Go figure. That kind of thing still happens here in the movies and stuff but at a much more extreme micro-scale. That`s what Australian film and TV was like. It was before Fox moved over and The Matrix was there so I kind of had to go through my own right of passage. One day she told me, `I`ve booked you an audition in New York.` Next thing I knew, I was stepping off a plane and it just felt right.

- Leonardo Nam

That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.

- Andrew Harrington

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

- Andrew Schroepfer

We`ve constructed what we consider a micron-scale analog of an ox, ... These are `micro-oxen,` a micro-scale beast of burden.

- April Locklear

That`s what it`s supposed to do--speak truth to power. I`m not surprised by this...hip-hop tells the micro history, but it also tells the counter-history to the official narrative.

- Arnaud de Borchgrave