Talia Balsam quote: "I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special."

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ED HELMS

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MATTHEW RHYS

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CHAD HUGO

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MARY LAMBERT

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HERSCHEL WALKER

I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a write...
BRYAN COGMAN

Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.
LAYNE STALEY

I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in pr...
KEVIN GATES

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I did...
AMY TAN

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DAVID GEFFEN

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SUSANNE BIER

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CHRISTIAN KANE

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
NATALIE DU TOIT

I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.
ELIZABETH GILLIES

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.
BRUCE NAUMAN

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. An...
OPRAH WINFREY

If you agree to do a sex scene, you have to be willing to not be awkward about it. C'mon! I don&...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

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ZOOEY DESCHANEL

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MIKE CRAPO

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MARISSA JARET WINOKUR

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PAGET BREWSTER

A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I ha...
DANIEL BOULUD

And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty...
PATTY HEARST

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RALPH NADER

I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
HAMID KARZAI

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GAYLE FORMAN

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EDWARD DE BONO

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HANYA YANAGIHARA

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THALIA

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LARRY THE CABLE GUY

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MARY J. BLIGE

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JEN KIRKMAN

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JUSTIN VERNON

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BIPASHA BASU

I love the entire process of being on the set and being able to create a character. It's so much...
SHERRI SHEPHERD

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AIMEE MULLINS

I was terrified of being a mum because I didn't think I'd ever be grown up enough.
ESSIE DAVIS

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WENDY COPE

The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as...
RICK PITINO

I constantly have anxiety about being the lead of the show. I don't talk about it because it sca...
ERICA DURANCE

I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of informatio...
SAMANTHA BEE

You see the standard hunting show; it's an outdoor television show. A lot of times, it's jus...
SHAWN MICHAELS

I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything....
JASON ALEXANDER

The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly faili...
DANIEL TOSH

I'm certainly not 10 pounds away from being an ingenue! Of course I would love to lose 10 pounds...
MARISSA JARET WINOKUR

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RACHEL KUSHNER

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. How...
KEVIN HART

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LUCY LIU

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PRUITT TAYLOR VINCE

The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a b...
JACK WELCH

I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.
JOEY MCINTYRE

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NEKO CASE

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DAVID STEINBERG

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JOHN WOODEN

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
JOHN VON NEUMANN

I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
BARRY O'FARRELL

I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn'...
DAVID RAKOFF

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KELLY ROWLAND

The good thing about being pregnant is that I don't have to worry about sucking it in or dieting...
BUSY PHILIPPS

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SIMON COWELL

I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn&#...
KATE MARA

I loved being a test pilot, and so being an astronaut was - was not my end point in, you know, eithe...
GREGORY H. JOHNSON

I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You do...
TARAJI P. HENSON

If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do ...
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE

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LISA SEE

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RAM CHARAN

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VILLE VALO

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ED HELMS

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LARRY FLYNT

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JOE GREENE

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HEATHER MORRIS

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KIRK DOUGLAS

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GARY JOHNSON

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LAMAR ODOM

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TODD HAYNES

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PETRA COLLINS

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JANE GOODALL

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P. L. TRAVERS

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TOM BERENGER

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JOHN ABRAHAM

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PRINCE

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AIDAN GILLEN

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KENNETH BRANAGH

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WIN BUTLER

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RICHARD DREYFUSS

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DEBORAH COX

It's a great thing about being pregnant - you don't need excuses to pee or to eat.
ANGELINA JOLIE

I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself.
BEN FOSTER

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XAVIER SAMUEL

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ETHAN PECK

But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough...
MONICA LEWINSKY

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RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

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