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RACHEL BLOOM I love being married: you don't have to go out, you don't have to be on the prowl, and you d... AVIVA I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. An... OPRAH WINFREY I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, bu... ALESSIA CARA I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being al... ANDY WARHOL What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing. DAVID ORTIZ I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere ... AYUMI HAMASAKI I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything t... MAIRA KALMAN If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was... GLORIA VANDERBILT I am not a fake. I am natural. I am just being Caster. I don't want to be someone I don't wa... CASTER SEMENYA Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration,... ELLA FITZGERALD I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don... JACK RUBY I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skept... RON CONWAY I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of ... WARREN BEATTY I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacatio... ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force ... JUAN PABLO GALAVIS If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don'... ALAN ARKIN I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face. "... BRANDON SANDERSON If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach... BILL NUNN I tell people a lot of times, if you want to be a part of something, you never know, you kind of jus... ANDERSON PAAK You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have b... ADAM PEATY I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals unt... BRUCE GREENWOOD It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to de... DYLAN WALSH There are a lot of podcasters that are females of color. And I think that we should be allowed to te... JESSICA WILLIAMS I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of... AMY SEDARIS I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying of... DAN MALLOY I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about... DAVID GUETTA Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the ... EMIR KUSTURICA I'm naturally shy, so the social media thing is new to me. I haven't really figured out how ... HUNTER HAYES The thing is, when we do fight scenes, when we kill people in the movies, they bring in experts to c... ANNABELLA SCIORRA At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. ... TYGA I reached rock bottom halfway through college. And it was - because of all the pressure that I think... JIDENNA I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and sa... DAMIEN RICE But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to. DAN REYNOLDS I know that I'm a bit of a snob now, because 'The Lover' put me up here and I just don... JANE MARCH Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don'... KALPANA CHAWLA I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a m... ED RENDELL You don't even wish for the success that I had, because you don't think it's attainable. TOM DELONGE No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don... NICK CAVE I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really ... CASS MCCOMBS Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something.... LANE KIRKLAND My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part o... RICHARD M. NIXON Money can't heal your heart. Money can't give you purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I... NICK VUJICIC I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist. ALISON GOLDFRAPP I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I ... JOHN MALKOVICH I don't want this to come off bad at all, but I really don't watch Disney shows. I don't... ATTICUS SHAFFER I'm not going to throw chairs; I'm not going to cuss. I'm not going to do that kind of s... ANDRE WARD I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all ... STEPHEN KING I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a stateme... ALEXANDRA ROACH I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don... HARRISON FORD I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes... ARUNDHATI ROY I only eat things that you don't have to kill. CAROL KANE If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your rig... KIM DOTCOM I'm sure there will come a time when I won't be able to, you know, walk around so easy somet... FRANK DILLANE Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&... B. B. KING You see the standard hunting show; it's an outdoor television show. A lot of times, it's jus... SHAWN MICHAELS I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happe... MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chap... CASSANDRA CLARE I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don&... ZACK GREINKE My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, '... ZENDAYA I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. I... ZEDD I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginn... DIANA GABALDON For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don... JEFF BRIDGES I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help t... ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always ... JENA MALONE I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet. ELIZABETH GILLIES I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story ... CHRIS WARE I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don't love yourself, take ... KIMORA LEE SIMMONS I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative. RICHARD BRAUTIGAN As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think... SANIA MIRZA I don't want to make 'Chandni Bar 2.' I didn't think 'Fashion 2' will happen... MADHUR BHANDARKAR When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a... MARY KARR I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't ... MIKE COLTER Unless you have a real passion for making movies, then don't bother. I had to carry energy and l... LAURA HARRING
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