If you have a soar throat, it may be painful to swallow. A soar throat can be caused by viruses or bacteria.

Level 4 Unit 1 Lesson 3

Headaches can be very painful and last for a long time. If you have a headache your head hurts.

A sprained ankle can be so painful that you can't walk. Someone with a sprained ankle may need to use crutches to walk.

A burn is an injury to the skin caused by fire or heat. If you get too close to a fire, you will be burned.

An earache is a sharp dull or burning pain in the ear. Common causes of earache include an affection, a changing air pressure or water in the ear.

Missing someone is not about how long it has been since you have seen them or the amount of time since you have talked; it is about that very moment when you are doing something and wishing they were there with you.

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

The ones who live for themselves find it easier to follow their dreams.

For the live shows, I'm just getting my song together. I go back to my hotel room and I just listen to my song over and over again, figure out how to make it different and put my little Pia spin on it.

The Russian Federation and the United States of America, the two biggest nuclear powers in the world, but apart from nuclear-wise, we have a lot in common. We have huge territories, natural resources, technologies, science, education, and of course human capital.

I believe I've accomplished my goals of trying to get better every year, and a little bit of that, a little bit of luck, a little bit of everything just falls in place, and you end up on top.

Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect. I sometimes think that Ray was only happy for three-and-a-half years in his life. And those were the three-and-a-half years before I was born.

The longest journey starts with a single step

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

The Canadians kind of look out for each other a little bit.

You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.

It is inhumane in my opinion to force people who genuinely have a medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.

I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

Why shouldn't I be allowed to say stupid, outrageous things?

If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.

You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

I'm one of those people who would be OK with fading back into the background a little bit.

I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.

I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.