I am pop, but like to shake things up a bit - funky things people wouldn't expect.
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ADAM CAROLLA When I get tired, I start eating things that I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because t...
CAROL VORDERMAN I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I ...
BAT FOR LASHES I almost always have a strong passion about the things I do. I wouldn't say aggressive, but I am...
PANSY HO I love the interaction with different kinds of people. I like to shake things up, make a difference.
ALAN SIEGEL I love doing things people don't expect.
LIL' KIM All of my books tend to be about things going on in labs that you wouldn't really expect.
MARY ROACH I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or br...
KAREN GILLAN If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am toda...
WAYNE NEWTON The external motivation lasts maybe one or two plays ? I?m just directing things a little bit. We ne...
MELVIN WATKINS I love old funky things. Color just makes me happy, and things all lined up.
BOBBI BROWN I wouldn't say I'm girl-crazy, because that makes me sound like a bit of a womanizer. That i...
HARRY STYLES I feel like things are weirder in our food production chain than I can even make up. I wouldn't ...
ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN I like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.
CARLENE CARTER 'Billboard' needs to tell the truth, shake things up.
PRINCE I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn't turn out the way I would want to, b...
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be...
KATHERINE JENKINS There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So p...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me...
BELLA THORNE Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go t...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I thin...
ABBY WAMBACH All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.
ANDRE BALAZS I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.
VANILLA ICE I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative thing...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and ...
WAGNER MOURA I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like a...
NAIMA ADEDAPO I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more i...
DAVID S. GOYER As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
ZOE CASSAVETES There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I&...
JACK WHITE I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
MADONNA CICCONE I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.
CHANDLER RIGGS I am like a friend to my children, but when things get out of hand, the 'mum' in me springs ...
JUHI CHAWLA If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I think the strong snap-back we've seen might be a bit unnerving. It depends on whether (Fed chairma...
BILL MEEHAN I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.
WENDY O. WILLIAMS My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If som...
IRIS APFEL I am mean; I'm nasty at times. I don't feel like talking to people at times. When I am in a ...
KAJOL We decided to go with a different lineup to shake things up a little bit. It worked because we were ...
STEVE ARNOLD I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.
BUTCH TRUCKS I wish that I had been born a man, then I wouldn't be the boy that I am.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like sw...
LL COOL J I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that ...
BOZ SCAGGS If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would b...
BABYFACE I'm not quite that difficult, even though maybe I'm a little bit bossy. But you know, in ord...
HEIDI KLUM It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be fu...
CURTIS JONES I am a very private person. I don't like to talk about things till someone asks about them.
ALIA BHATT I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the wa...
BODE MILLER I don't like people who hide things. We're not perfect, we all have things that people might...
GRACE JONES I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of...
CARA DELEVINGNE I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.
NAIMA ADEDAPO People like 'Crank,' some people like 'Redemption.' I'm just happy to do things ...
JASON STATHAM I don't like acting things; I like feeling things.
DOUGRAY SCOTT Sometimes, things need to be so understated on film that I don't even see them as funny, which i...
T. J. MILLER It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intel...
DAN STEVENS I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It'...
OLIVIA COLMAN Guys wake up at your place and they expect breakfast. They don't eat bagels and M&M's in...
ELAYNE BOOSLER I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot,...
LOUIS THEROUX It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bl...
RICKY SKAGGS We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
ALAN BENNETT Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, p...
RACHEL CORRIE The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky...
TOM LEHRER That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would p...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take thing...
STANLEY KUBRICK I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainl...
TARAN KILLAM I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was...
TRACEY EMIN Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybod...
MICHAEL HUTCHENCE Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.
KATE MOSS I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to ...
EVE ENSLER I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an ...
LYNN COADY You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
SAMUEL LARSEN I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
RAFAEL DOS ANJOS There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have ...
DANIEL KEYS MORAN A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn'...
FREDDY ADU I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she'...
NIGELLA LAWSON There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in...
POST MALONE Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist&...
JACK WHITEHALL I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. An...
LORDE I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, ...
JAMES LEE BURKE I don't really like to promote anything, but I will promote things I believe in and things that ...
CAMERON DALLAS You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
CARL LEWIS I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a l...
CARINE ROITFELD Coming out of Juilliard, I had a big head, and a lot of people wouldn't want to be an assistant....
BRYAN COGMAN I find dealing with tempered chocolate a bit tricky, but that's a chocolatier's job. So I da...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD Clearly things were not right last Saturday night and it was time to shake things up,
CLIVE WOODWARD I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that pers...
NATASHA LITTLE If I am in a beautiful place, but I don't like the people, I am miserable.
ALBER ELBAZ I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know ...
SIENNA MILLER First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums t...
RINGO STARR I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.
TIM BURTON Sometimes, having a reputation can be the best thing because people expect you to be really difficul...
BOY GEORGE I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of t...
PETER CAPALDI I wouldn't call myself a feminist. I am just me. I like boxing and acting and doing my charity w...
NICOLA ADAMS If I had to describe myself, I wouldn't use words like 'hero.' I wouldn't use 'p...
EDWARD SNOWDEN I don't know whether it will shake riders up, but this will be a little bit different, so maybe peop...
DAN TANGHERLINI I've done all kinds of things I said I wouldn't do and, of course, now I'm glad. Thrille...
DIANE KEATON If some guy said this to me, I wouldn't listen either, but one-rep max-outs are the dumbest thin...
LUCAS TILL I have a tendency to break rules and shake things up. I would say that with me people never know wha...
NUNO ROQUE But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
CALISTA FLOCKHART No matter what people say, about what I did, about what I am like... They say you are not dedicated ...
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