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BRENDAN CALLAHAN
I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research b... MATT DAMON I had a great book and a great script to work as my raw materials, but when I got out on to the set ...
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I play one of the greatest magicians of the time period. It's an incredibly original story, a mind b... HUGH JACKMAN My mom and dad laugh at me when I go out and play in November and December, but it helps to know how...
ERIC LINDQUIST
I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'... KATE DICAMILLO The great thing about working in comics is that visually, you're the sole voice. You have to fig...
CHRIS RENAUD I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure ...
DANA DELANY
I have my guy Semi who is my on the road - he's my personal trainer. He helps me out with traini... AVICII It's a momentum changer and it helps us get out there and play our game, that high, fast-paced, high...
ELGRACE WILBORN It means a lot to me that my coaches and teammates have a lot of faith in me. I just want to go out ...
DONELL TAYLOR We still haven't (lost a conference game, in my mind). It almost makes me not want to play in tourna...
ERIC MAXWELL This is a new year. Last year is the furthest thing from my mind right now. Right now, my (mind-set)...
MARK ROMAN I call my tiki bar my tiki office, even though I also entertain out here all the time. This beautifu...
MICHELLE PHILLIPS Don't go out there,” I yelled out, suddenly afraid for the man outside to figure out the way in. F...
ROSE WYNTERS It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it ...
NATHAN LANE My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a diff...
C. K. WILLIAMS As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play an...
LES PAUL
It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't... KALEY CUOCO
I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have ... ELLEN BURSTYN That's one of my qualities that helps me out at this level, quickness. Especially now with the new r...
FREDDY MEYER I tread on the m che' with my feet and I sometimes use my teeth, and of course my hands are always w...
SHIRAZ PELED Competition helps people figure it out.
BRIAN MCBRIDE The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be v...
KATE ATKINSON A thing I do with all my characters is I break them down into one of three things: mind, heart, and ...
JACK FALAHEE I go fishing in my mind. I put out bait, the bait of my own longing, my desire, and my hunger for co...
PAT SCHNEIDER I want to compete and want to beat him, but he also helps me out a lot. I play very comfortably when...
ANDY BENSON
A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice ... LISA LOEB I go out there, I focus, I make sure that I know my assignments, make sure Coach Martz and the other...
LARRY TURNER
... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t... DEYTH BANGER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Music is a job, but I figured out ways to get my mind into a place where I could be creative. I actu...
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WESLEY WILLIS We'll figure something out even if we have to have bake sales. I can see kids skating, in my mind, i...
DANNETTEE SHOEMAKER
Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time. TOM PETTY I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of...
TIPPI HEDREN This 25-story building is so out of place and so out of character, it's going to dominate the entire...
BRAD ROGERS I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I gue...
FREDDIE HIGHMORE This is too much reality for a Friday.
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Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is ... KEVIN SMITH No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
DAN SCANLON
I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but ge... PAUL LITTLE It was a tough call. I don't know how you can make a call like that. That's not in my hands. The onl...
ABDUL HODGE It's my senior year. I'm just going to go out, have fun and play as hard as I can.
JEFF HORNER I try not to let it hit me. I go out and try to play every game like it's my last game.
ANTARRIOUS WILLIAMS I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a c...
CARLENE CARTER What Josh needs to figure out is a style of catching. Once he figures out his style and what he's co...
GARY TUCK I always will have the thought in the back of my mind. But I just got to be strong about it. Just go...
TONY JUDICE I feel good, ... They gave me the opportunity to play here, and I just want to go out there and take...
COURTNEY BROWN I figure as long as it's not just raining in my lane, then all eight women will have to go through t...
JOANNA HAYES
I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has hi... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I have a backyard (where) my kids can play. They are not allowed on the side or front of my house wi...
CARA SCHLUSSEL You go to the draft board and think, 'Here's a nose tackle. Who needs a nose tackle?' We...
BILL BELICHICK I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of int...
IRA GLASS The market is not going to figure out where it wants to go until you have some conviction about wher...
VINCE FARRELL I look it as my job to win, and I have to go out there and prove it. I have to show.
AARON HEILMAN I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe...
T. C. BOYLE It felt good. I was happy just to be out there after my long journey. It was a new experience for me...
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Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'... JOHNNY DEPP The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short...
VICTOR GARBER The coldness coats my senses. I envision it turning into a stone wall as thick as the depths of thei...
QUOLEENA SBROCCA
Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my o... S. E. HINTON I'm trying to get a lower center of gravity. I think, when I play at a lower level, it helps my ...
KLAY THOMPSON Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of my life and abou...
ANNA KOURNIKOVA It hurts because I won't be able to finish my last season. I was expecting to have my family fly in ...
ARMEIN KIRKLAND
Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it ou... DEAN KAMEN I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book tha...
WARREN G. HARDING
It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every ... KELLY MCCREARY He walked over to the piano and lifted the cover revealing black and white keys that my fingers knew...
ALEXANDRIA RHODES The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's ha...
CHRIS ISAAK It wasn't really a scolding. It was just one of those things where he expects a lot out of me, and h...
MARCUS TRUFANT The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go complet...
ZACHARY QUINTO I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look ...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN I'm not out of the game because of the way I play. The character issues and stuff like that has real...
DARREN HAMBRICK
My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I li... MADONNA CICCONE
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to mem... BEN HOROWITZ
I've always believed since I was a kid that God was gonna allow me to play professional football... REGGIE WHITE I had conversations with the entire (women's basketball) staff today, and it was basically to try an...
MARSHALL PARKS
My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing ... BEAU BRIDGES To me, it always comes down to character and script and then director. If a character belongs to me,...
ANYA TAYLOR-JOY It's always a great thing to expand your fan base. That helps the players, it helps the team and it ...
AMAR STOUDEMIRE
It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It'... ALAN ALDA
For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of be... SARAH MACLEAN That's pretty huge. I went through a situation in college where I was looking over my shoulder prett...
JASON FIFE
Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd... KIRK DOUGLAS
I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife a... DR. DRE You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stif...
NOMAR GARCIAPARRA For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and t...
GAL GADOT Sometimes I'll write without the guitar or the piano, but most of the time I'll be playing a...
JOHN DARNIELLE Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo...
DANIEL OJEDA
Visualization - it's been huge for me. Your mind doesn't know the difference between imagina... LINDSEY STIRLING
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