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BRIAN GREENE For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults ... RICK RIORDAN I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They'r... DAVID HEYMAN Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six mon... LAUREN BACALL I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music... JENNIFER HUDSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; th... NAOMIE HARRIS Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you ha... LIAM NEESON My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Su... MARK BURNETT With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than t... BOB NEWHART More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like i... KATE VOEGELE A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up ... IAN RANKIN There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this i... JOAQUIN PHOENIX Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're ... SAM KEAN My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where t... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I'm not trying to brainwash my critics. If they're critics, they're critics, and that... JOHN CENA There's a couple of movie parts that I can't remember. There was always something kind of lu... CRAIG ROBINSON What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because ... AL JARREAU I'm sitting at home every time there's a Grammy. It's like, 'What is Sharon doing to... SHARON JONES My nieces and my nephews think the only thing that I do is 'Ice Age.' That's fine with m... DENIS LEARY With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a pers... CHRIS BROWN I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to... CODY LINLEY It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in gene... RYAN REYNOLDS I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they... MARY GAITSKILL Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make thei... SHERMAN ALEXIE For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, ... BOB SEGER There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew... ARI GRAYNOR There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to ma... CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Many companies don't exist after 25 years. It's a rarity. Or if they do exist, they're l... JOHN MORGRIDGE People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but ... NATHAN MYHRVOLD It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don... FRANCES CONROY I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and c... MADONNA CICCONE I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. Th... 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