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JENNIE FINCH I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids an...
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JAMES HORNER It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk...
MALLORY ORTBERG I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.
EVA MENDES My life is so active, and I'm fighting the whole day that I don't have any aggressiveness or...
RONDA ROUSEY I don't feel when I'm writing that I'm drawing from any other writer, but of course I mu...
CHARLES MCCARRY I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained ...
RALPH ALLEN I write every day. Most weekdays, I write about ten hours a day. That doesn't mean eight hours o...
JONATHAN MABERRY I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blow...
SEBASTIAN VETTEL My day-to-day life changes; I don't have any standard day.
CHRISTY TURLINGTON I don't have one favourite spot - I love writing anywhere that I feel inspired. I have to admit ...
ELLA WOODWARD I have a half an hour warm-up I do that my voice teacher gave me. I exercise at least for an hour du...
JOSH YOUNG I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don...
JESS WALTER If I go anywhere, and I don't have my coffee, I don't drink coffee. When I travel, I carry i...
GRACE HIGHTOWER Nowadays, you don't need to live in a fashion capital of the world, have lots of money, or be ab...
CHIARA FERRAGNI I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I...
FERRAN ADRIA I don't see any state that Democrats have won five out of six times, or six out of six times, th...
JOEL BENENSON I'm not superstitious about good luck charms and all that. I don't have any ring or any tang...
SHREYA GHOSHAL I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a pr...
WANDA SYKES I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but re...
JONATHAN TROPPER I'm totally against animal cruelty. I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal...
LEONA LEWIS Because I'm no longer a pop star 24 hours a day, I'm no longer bogged down by the stupid stu...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
LARRY WALL I love New York. I can walk half a block and I'm at the grocery store. I don't have to drive...
CAMREN BICONDOVA I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was rais...
KATEE SACKHOFF I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'...
IRIS APFEL I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing to...
HEATH LEDGER I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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HARRIET WALTER I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to thre...
SHAWN JOHNSON During all of my writing career - this includes when I was writing plays and my other screenplays - ...
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LEONARD NIMOY I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it...
CARLENE CARTER Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we ...
JENNIFER ESPOSITO I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at d...
TOM PETTY I don't watch a lot of TV. I just don't have a whole lot of time, and my life is so disorgan...
CHRISTOPHER MCCULLOCH With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I...
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MATT DAMON I work 18 to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, so I don't have time for a social life. Or any l...
CELIA HAMMOND I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious ab...
ADAM CAROLLA Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like tha...
MICHAEL NESMITH I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever t...
WALE If I don't get eight hours, I can't function, so I'm a great believer in power naps.
BOBBY DAVRO The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.
CATHERINE KEENER I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
JACK VANCE I'm a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I...
BEYONCE KNOWLES I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting...
ZACK GREINKE I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm ...
IAN RANKIN It doesn't matter at all for me that I work in hospital or anywhere with limited space. Every da...
YAYOI KUSAMA I find my vocabulary is quite a lot better when I'm hungover. I feel like I unlock a key of word...
ELLA EYRE I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobb...
IRWIN ROSE At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on t...
GAIL CARRIGER Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I ...
LYNN COADY I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don...
MELISSA ETHERIDGE I love to eat and I don't believe in denying myself, so I have to work out. I'm not obsessed...
AMBER ROSE I wouldn't say I have comedy chops. I guess you get lucky with good writing because I don't ...
MICHAEL PENA I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but ...
MADELINE ZIMA I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.
KEVIN MCCARTHY I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't k...
MAYA ANGELOU I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my ...
BECKY G At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. ...
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LUKE PERRY I guess I don't know if I'm comfortable with fame or touring or promo or any of that stuff, ...
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EMILY BLUNT I can't see where there is anywhere left to move. If you don't have a recount it's hard ...
ROBERT TORRICELLI Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take...
HOWARD FINSTER It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone bei...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a g...
WALLACE SHAWN I would never complain about the position I'm in or the attention I get. At the end of the day, ...
DAVID BECKHAM I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not reall...
PANSY HO It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view - I don't care if I...
OLLY MURS I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.
JERRY DELLA FEMINA I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good...
RAINBOW ROWELL I don't have any fear of turning 30. But maybe that's because I know I'm never going to ...
ALFIE ALLEN Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, ...
BETH BRODERICK I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno...
ARIEL PINK I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don'...
HARRY CONNICK, JR. I'm a martial artist, and I don't train because I have a fight; I train because it's my ...
GEORGES ST-PIERRE I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
DAVID CASSIDY Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at ...
MALLORY ORTBERG I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accep...
MICHAEL J. FOX It's been great having my little girl. It's like having a workout 24 hours a day. I don'...
CAM GIGANDET Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part ...
DAVID BOWIE If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.
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GAIL GODWIN You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at ...
GAIL KELLY I mean it today. And tomorrow, it will be today again, and I will mean it for that today. It's alway...
GAIL DAYTON How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the trave...
GAIL CARRIGER The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, ...
GAIL COLLINS Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, a...
GAIL HAMILTON Overall we had a great team effort. It was good to get the win under tough conditions.
GAIL ANDERSEN We were all ready to play. Hopefully we'll schedule it for next week sometime.
GAIL ANDERSEN Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for.
GAIL ANDERSEN In spite of the young lineup, we will be competitive and have a quicker overall team. Last year was ...
GAIL ANDERSEN We will have a lot of new faces in the mix. We have good team chemistry, new guys are finding their ...
GAIL ANDERSEN We're a young team. We'll grow from this, and it will only help us in the future.
GAIL ANDERSEN We looked like a completely different team in the second half. We built momentum and started attacki...
GAIL ANDERSEN The team never quit, and three team members played an exceptional game, all over the field.
GAIL ANDERSEN It was one of those precision plays that unveil themselves about once a match. It all came together.
GAIL ANDERSEN For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to ge...
GAIL COLLINS You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off...
GAIL COLLINS In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dram...
GAIL SHEEHY Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripateti...
GAIL COLLINS Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-3...
GAIL SHEEHY The delights of self-discovery are always available.
GAIL SHEEHY You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of ...
GAIL COLLINS You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper o...
GAIL GODWIN