Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.
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It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus o...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT VR has a whole range of things it's very good at, and there's a lot of things that it's ...
FREDDIE WONG My way of connecting to the community that I imagined was out there somewhere for me, but wasn't...
LIV BRUCE I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN I was upset about getting $40 haircuts, like, every month. That's a lot of money, and so, man, t...
STEVEN ADAMS There's been a lot of wedding songs and proposals. It's cool because when they play it at we...
JON PARDI Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON I'm definitely a fighter, like Christina Aguilera would say.
WILL CHAMPLIN I'm like the Christina Aguilera of the Internet.
SKY FERREIRA When I get my heart rate up, I get good exercise and I think it's good for a lot of things, plus...
MIKE DITKA I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was of...
CHARLI XCX I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s po...
CAITLIN ROSE I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ...
JACK WHITE Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a hea...
JACK BRUCE Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA I grew up with a lot of brothers, and I don't have any sisters, so for me it's really import...
MICKALENE THOMAS A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA I'm not aiming to be someone like Christina Aguilera.
GIN WIGMORE It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!
NATALIA KILLS It's a circus life, the movies. It's a lot of travelling, a lot of antisocial hours; there...
PAUL GREENGRASS I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's ...
BRAD PITT It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote...
CHARLIE HUNTER You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself...
DIANA KRALL A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in th...
KURT BRAUNOHLER It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much...
TOM COLICCHIO I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It'...
DENIS LEARY Spike Lee listens a lot. He's one of the quietest creative people I've ever met.
JAMES MCBRIDE The sneaker comes from sports, but it's couture now. It's not made in Asia: it's made in...
GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI What's the good of Twitter if you can't tweet cute... Twitter's so silly. I tweet about ...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really kn...
OLGA FONDA It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Cra...
JANE SEYMOUR In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's alwa...
J. COLE I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.
MAISIE WILLIAMS A lot of the time, we're shooting summer campaigns in winter because they have to come out the n...
GIGI HADID I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music...
JENNIFER HUDSON When I started, I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to si...
SONU NIGAM I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l...
R. KELLY I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a l...
JOHN F. KERRY But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and...
CHRIS MONEYMAKER Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It'...
ADAM DRIVER A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like...
DARLENE LOVE On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they'...
LINDSAY LOHAN It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
SAM RAIMI I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one...
ICE CUBE People ask me, 'How's 'Teen Wolf?' and I tell them it's literally the best job I...
SHELLEY HENNIG A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don...
BRANTLEY GILBERT I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walk...
PAUL WALKER I live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of West Indian culture, so it's nice.
EVE I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record...
SPIKE JONZE They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with ...
BROOKE SMITH I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had ...
CHRIS EVANS When push comes to shove, I'm a fighter, and I'm going to force someone to fight. It takes a...
ROBBIE LAWLER To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been...
STEVE HARVEY 'Idol' was a great experience. It was a great stepping-stone. I got to meet a lot of amazing...
PHILLIP PHILLIPS I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money ...
WALT DISNEY There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
RALPH FIENNES I've had a lot of mother figures. But by the time my mom came into my life, it wasn't a '...
PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them ...
DAVID FRIEDMAN It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm...
DANIEL BALDWIN I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.
BOB DOLE I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my...
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.
ANSEL ELGORT And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it mig...
JOE SACCO 'Arnold Layne' just happens to dig dressing up in women's clothing. A lot of people do -...
SYD BARRETT I think I started doing covers when I was... what, like 9 or 10? I would always do the songs that I ...
SABRINA CARPENTER I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a ...
ROBIN WRIGHT All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's...
LOUIS TOMLINSON It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as well. S...
SIENNA MILLER San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environme...
LES CLAYPOOL I can't put anyone even really close to Christina Aguilera besides Stacie Orrico.
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual.
MICK RALPHS When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be ...
ASHLEY MONROE I haven't done a lot of action movies, so it's kind of fun to get to do a lot of stunt work.
MARK-PAUL GOSSELAAR I'm very proud of Family Ties. It's meant a lot to a lot of people.
TINA YOTHERS I use Maybelline New York Great Lash Mascara. Thanks to my mother, I have really long lashes, so I...
BRITTANY SNOW People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don&...
BILLY CORGAN I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
DAMIEN HIRST There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.&...
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AMY TAN Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, bu...
AMY TAN I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the sam...
AMY TAN No one can travel your own road for you; you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems fro...
AMY TAN I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what'...
AMY TAN Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings...
AMY TAN God, life changes faster than you think.
AMY TAN A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them '...
AMY CHUA Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around...
AMY WINEHOUSE Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
AMY GRANT My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
AMY SEDARIS I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someo...
AMY SEDARIS You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use y...
AMY SEDARIS I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to mak...
AMY SEDARIS I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's ...
AMY SEDARIS People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
AMY SEDARIS I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But...
AMY SEDARIS I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'...
AMY SEDARIS