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Related I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function. MELISSA MCCARTHY It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a conc... HOWIE MANDEL The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it... DOUG AITKEN You have an hour and a half or two hours - maybe two and a half hours - in a movie, and it has to be... JON FAVREAU I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. B... KENNY WORMALD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there ... CARINE ROITFELD I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-... ADAM GREEN Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in... MARILYNNE ROBINSON There's a fundamental difference between how often men remember to say 'I love you' and ... BRETT YOUNG I can pour myself into Bon Iver. It's a thing about self- and mental discovery, and those are al... JUSTIN VERNON I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be ... HELEN MCCRORY It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN Day one through three of the radio tour, I actually went by Camaron Ochs. I went to my first set of ... CAM That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you ... AARON PAUL I'm just so lucky - my office is a racetrack. That is something I'm very thankful for. It... CHANTAL SUTHERLAND The game is nine innings. It's not two, three. It doesn't matter if it's the fifth throu... GIANCARLO STANTON I love musicals, but I find it's just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece he... DICK VAN DYKE It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours... GEORGE LUCAS Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are ... ELIZABETH STROUT Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and th... JEFF TWEEDY Half the shows on Comedy Central are just multi-cam blue sets, and they kind of look like game shows... ERIC ANDRE Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're fou... CHRISTOPHER ATKINS Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game. RAFAEL PALMEIRO Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel ... DAN STEVENS I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three fee... SCOTT PATTERSON I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, &... KATHI APPELT I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work. DAMIEN HIRST It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study ... MILA KUNIS If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before y... AUNG SAN SUU KYI It's just like high school. If you're a freshman or a sophomore, it's hard to tell the s... TONY ROMO Sometimes I forget that I am even watching myself, realizing that's me. It's like you almost... EVAN RACHEL WOOD I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it... EDDIE VAN HALEN It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to p... RYAN GOSLING I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there... BILL KREUTZMANN Women over 30 are usually somebody's mother in a 'Porky's' movie, being silly and be... RITA MORENO No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And... WILLIAM BERNBACH Beyonce was just always full-out. She's like a beast. So you learn that no matter how you feel, ... HEATHER MORRIS It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm goin... CANDACE BUSHNELL 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You... DIORA BAIRD It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum. JERRY SPRINGER So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going o... CHARISMA CARPENTER If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes whe... ROBERT PATTINSON 'Need You Now' is a universal subject matter. It's something that not just country fans,... HILLARY SCOTT There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six... OLESYA RULIN It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibi... FRED DURST There's nothing like doing a show at home. When you do a show in Chicago, there's just a cer... CHANCE THE RAPPER I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and s... DAVID WALLIAMS For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But th... RICK PERRY There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how... OCTAVIA SPENCER Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It... ERIC BURDON When you're sitting ringside, there's a primal thing there that hooks into violence and exci... ANTOINE FUQUA There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out ... SEAN LENNON Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons... DAVID S. GOYER Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know ... JOHN HURT When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an... CHRIS PRATT Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for y... JOHN WOODEN For queer people, the personal is very political, just to talk about it in a public space. It's ... BEN HOPKINS This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how... PETER BONDRA He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. EDWIN EDWARDS Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of thre... MARIO BATALI It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying ... AARON SPELLING My house is really clean. It's a really big house so I have three ladies who come in and clean i... TOMMY LEE There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood's kind of a throwback... MONICA POTTER Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It's not just creating a hit show - it... LESLIE MOONVES I think that connection with humans is so important. Sometimes I'll do this monologue and talk t... CHET FAKER Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you&... BENNY BLANCO That's the way I like it because there's no time to have nerves about it. You just run out a... DOUG FLUTIE There's no point in starting a business unless you're going to make a dramatic difference to... RICHARD BRANSON It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' Yo... ERIC JEROME DICKEY Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different ... ANNABELLA SCIORRA The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere,... EDGAR RAMIREZ It's not like the old competition that you had between Leno and Letterman. It's a friendly c... JON BATISTE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the ot... DAVID CARRADINE Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just... MARK RUSSELL The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording ... ROBIN WILLIAMS I try to do everything from the viewpoint of what's best for my kids. I have three kids and two ... KIMORA LEE SIMMONS And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this... DAVID HOCKNEY I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded chara... BEL POWLEY It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sou... SHAKIRA I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pil... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pil... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to wat... DAVID HYDE PIERCE Television is such an evolving medium. When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just s... CHRIS PRATT Relationships, if you want them to work, take work. The biggest thing that I learned growing up, and... JOSH DUHAMEL With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics ro... JAMIE FOXX As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef ... GORDON RAMSAY I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a thea... HAL PRICE I've climbed Stromboli when it's erupting, which is quite a heavy climb: three hours with a ... MICHELLE PAVER Whether it's a movie I'm in or not, if there's a good movie, and it's low budget, an... TONI COLLETTE Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write ... BILL CALLAHAN There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there... IMRAN AMED You know what, I'm happy to say that everything outside of 'Dexter' feels like a vacatio... JENNIFER CARPENTER Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two ... JAMIE MOYER You hit those valleys sometimes and it's really frustrating. It's like getting stuck in traf... JASON BATEMAN When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care... BARRY GIBB
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STEVEN PINKER A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space... STEVEN WRIGHT If you cannot peacefully coexist with many different cultures and beliefs, then you should probably ... STEVEN MAGEE Many past mistakes paves the road to future discoveries. STEVEN MAGEE There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments. STEVEN MAGEE An electrical utility company that blatantly lies to law enforcement about an electrical fraud resea... STEVEN MAGEE Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either dam... STEVEN MAGEE The USA is corrupt in many areas with law enforcement and utility companies being two of those. STEVEN MAGEE There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surv... STEVEN MAGEE The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time wher... STEVEN MAGEE Many mistakes makes for a very smart person. STEVEN MAGEE What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the bou... STEVEN JOHNSON This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an insta... STEVEN PRESSFIELD A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when ... STEVEN MAGEE Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. STEVEN SPIELBERG The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that... STEVEN PINKER A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for ... STEVEN BIKO We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender. STEVEN SQUYRES The police seem to be learning the hard way that the more abusive they are to people, the less peopl... STEVEN MAGEE Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have com... STEVEN BIKO The backbone of the electrical grid is largely massive numbers of steam driven engines that turn ele... STEVEN MAGEE Chance favors the connected mind. STEVEN JOHNSON