I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and another on my back that says 'The Road Not Taken,' which is a poem by Robert Frost.
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Related Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker. MILLA JOVOVICH I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I d... LEO HOWARD I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some mar... JOSH KEATON I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit lik... CAITY LOTZ I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts... CAMERON MONAGHAN I have a ladybug on my wrist that I got when I was doing 'John Tucker Must Die,' and I have ... BRITTANY SNOW I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket. JASON RITTER I have my guy Semi who is my on the road - he's my personal trainer. He helps me out with traini... AVICII I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two y... AKSHAY KUMAR One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at wri... MARIA SHRIVER I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The c... WOJCIECH JARUZELSKI I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not s... ADAM PALLY I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't... TONY STEWART I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavywei... VIN DIESEL Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake p... HOWARD NEMEROV One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I wou... MEGALYN ECHIKUNWOKE I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. ... JAY PARINI If I can go every day of the week, that's great and I'll do it. Usually I can't, so it... SASHA PIETERSE On a normal day, I crawl out of bed before 8 A.M., have a protein shake, chuck my gym kit on, and go... ELLA EYRE I would love to have a complete family. I'd love to do it all at once. I'd love to be able t... MICHAEL EALY I've been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started ta... DANIELLA ALONSO There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I'v... LENA HEADEY I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial a... NATALIA TENA I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to... GARY ALLAN 'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The ... M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I h... JESSE TYLER FERGUSON I'd like to get back to my family and friends - believe it or not, I do have some real friends. O. J. SIMPSON I did my 'Hulk,' but it was not easy. If I do another Hulk film it will always be compared t... LOUIS LETERRIER My eighth-grade year, I was home-schooled. I'd basically wake up, go to the gym in the morning, ... JACOB DALTON When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses d... MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujits... BOOBOO STEWART At the moment I have my family coming out with me on the road. We have our own vehicle and it's ... DAVE LOMBARDO I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have ... SCOTT ADKINS You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?' KATE UPTON You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts. CAM GIGANDET I'd love to do an action film. I'd love to do a film based on a book series; I love to read ... KATHERINE MCNAMARA I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm ... GARY SINISE I came from doing Wushu and other martial arts, and then I got into movies, and I had to learn that ... DANIEL WU I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach v... VICTOR WEBSTER I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on... JOE ROGAN Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,... RAY BRADBURY We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in RACHEL CARSON My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The C... KACY CATANZARO Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue... B. B. KING My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for ... STEVIE NICKS My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simple... JAMES FENTON I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince wil... BRITTANY SNOW I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character ... SAM ROCKWELL I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I w... ADAM FERRARA I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, ... HARRISON FORD To make a film like 'The Grandmaster,' I know I'm not going to make just a standard kung... WONG KAR-WAI When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven S... VIN DIESEL How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not... NICOLAS CAGE Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li do... JET LI I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that... BRYSON TILLER Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wea... STEPHEN MARLEY Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li do... JET LI I emcee how I feel for the moment. I'll always be influenced by Tribe, but my EP and LP have a l... PHIFE DAWG I'm the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids wat... MARLON WAYANS Martial arts was really the first thing in my life that I followed through on and accomplished a deg... CHUCK NORRIS A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it's not only just a part of pop culture, but ... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN I keep pushing for the Crest Whitestrips thing. I get so many compliments on how white my teeth are,... JILL WAGNER I have a tattoo of an executioner on my right upper arm. I have a tattoo of the Grim Reaper on my le... DOMINICK CICALE I'm an American songbook guy, though I've got eclectic tastes. I really love the American so... TONY DANZA Some of the martial arts films, the motivation is about martial arts. That's where it's comi... MICHELLE YEOH It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the f... CHUCK NORRIS I'm the type of person that will do triple sessions in one day. I'll do Pilates, I'll do... LAURA PREPON I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get ba... VALORIE CURRY I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Fri... CAMERON MONAGHAN If it isn't Martial Arts, Music, Poetry, Thought Provoking , GOD, or something that will help make m... DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people... SKYLAR GREY I only went into a gym by accident. My mum couldn't get a babysitter and wanted to do aerobics, ... NICOLA ADAMS The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love ... DAN GILROY When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd real... DOLPH LUNDGREN I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair ... ETHEL MERMAN I have a recurring role on 'Person of Interest,' which is my husband's show. I play the ... CARRIE PRESTON I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spen... AARON RODGERS My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, ... DUFF GOLDMAN I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm defin... JAMIE FOXX I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've alwa... RALPH HALL I've got some great stuff in my sports memorabilia collection. But my favorite thing by far is t... DARIUS RUCKER It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. 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TOLKIEN In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the... J. R. R. TOLKIEN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ... J. R. R. TOLKIEN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are... R. KELLY I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &... R. KELLY I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the... R. KELLY I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But... R. KELLY When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something... R. KELLY Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies. R. KELLY If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That... R. KELLY You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz... R. KELLY I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because... R. KELLY In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo... R. KELLY I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,... R. KELLY I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either. R. KELLY I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me... R. KELLY Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated.... R. KELLY You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seein... R. KELLY Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot... R. KELLY Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp... R. KELLY My greatest competition is, well, me. R. KELLY I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu... R. KELLY Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys arou... R. KELLY I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l... R. KELLY I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me. R. KELLY I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm... R. KELLY Wasted time means wasted lives. R. SHANNON Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach fille... R. VENNING It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. R. PALMER Life is too short to learn German. R. PORSON