I romanticize. I live with the ghosts of Elvis and Frank Sinatra. It seems so glamorous. They were American men who don't exist anymore. But there are ugly things about them, too.
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CHARLIE HUNNAM I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the... JOHN MASEFIELD I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had ha... CELIA JOHNSON New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neig... MIKE D I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is th... SHANE CARRUTH I don't drink much anymore, but when I traveled with Frank Sinatra, God rest his soul, I used to... DON RICKLES There are certain things that I know I don't want to do anymore. Playing out-and-out terrorists ... ART MALIK What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. ... HARMONY KORINE But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them a... DICK VAN DYKE There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real li... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. J. D. SOUTHER There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there ar... RANDY HOUSER Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip ab... CARRIE FISHER We were working... with Frank Sinatra. He was in the main room, and we were in the lounge. It was a ... BOBBY HATFIELD About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises t... DAN HICKS Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the ... DALTON TRUMBO It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn... CHRIS KYLE Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I... BETTY WHITE I've stopped going to see art films because every critic gives them four stars and say things li... TERRY ZWIGOFF Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to ... MARK TWAIN There will never be another Frank Sinatra. I never wanted to be another Frank Sinatra. I only wanted... MICHAEL BUBLE People don't understand that I have a great relationship with my parents - like, how that can ex... KATY PERRY I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do n... JOSE SARAMAGO I don't let myself get upset about the little nitpicky things anymore. ERIC SHANTEAU I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tensio... JOHN LE CARRE My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don'... OLGA KURYLENKO I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for ... LARRY THE CABLE GUY People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one ... MUHAMMAD ALI I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs... KELLY CLARKSON I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the rig... STEVE MADDEN I saw Sinatra and the Pope on TV when I was two and said 'Who's that guy with Frank Sinatra?' ROSEANNE The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When ... MICHAEL BUBLE I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will d... JOSHUA LEDERBERG People don't know about the human part of me that really cares about the world. For instance, I ... DIANA ROSS I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist. RICHARD GERE When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. T... JOHN LURIE I don't think there are enough stories told about black men and their relationships and how they... TASHA SMITH I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10... TONY BENNETT Alien abduction movies are always the scariest; no matter how cheesy they are, they still scare me f... CLAIRE COFFEE I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows eve... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live ... JOHN RUSKIN The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they ar... OREN PELI There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So p... JENNIFER COOLIDGE Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later an... SARAH MCLACHLAN I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll... WARIS AHLUWALIA Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a... JOHN LE CARRE All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty... WILLIE NELSON I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think muc... JACKIE EVANCHO There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really... JOHN OLIVER Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or... ANNIE PARISSE People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that t... DAVID SEDARIS I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them... MARTHA BECK I get excited to create things that don't exist in the same world as 'Hamilton' because ... DAVEED DIGGS I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or th... PAULA POUNDSTONE I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular. RITCHIE BLACKMORE Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up ... BESS TRUMAN I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't thin... PAMELA ANDERSON More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They ... AMY SEDARIS Sometimes people can only imagine that I live a glamorous life 24/7, which I don't. I just like ... IZABEL GOULART I love kids. But that's such a big commitment. And it seems long-term. It seems like a commitmen... ELLEN DEGENERES I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think abo... KIM GORDON The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I ne... EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do. URSULA ANDRESS In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't... MATT KEMP Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for... BRENDAN MYERS It made the staff confident, so they're sure there are no ghosts anymore. ACHIM BRUECKNER The British boys really, really go nuts... to them, an older woman is sexy, and it's an incredib... JENNIFER COOLIDGE I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives. JACKIE KENNEDY There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. ... TORI AMOS The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't m... YOKO ONO If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don'... ALAN ARKIN Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got ... ADAM PEATY Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff. CARL REINER Since I got my new liver, some of my tastes have changed. There are certain things I don't like ... JACK BRUCE I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'Th... TAYLOR LAUTNER I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. Th... DAVID DUCHOVNY Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were on... CHRISSIE HYNDE There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I... JAMES D'ARCY Traveling, I've met Ghanaian people who have seen me in minor stuff, but they see the name Ato E... ATO ESSANDOH I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded ... NICK HORNBY I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want... ELIZABETH WURTZEL I also think there's too many players who say the same boring answers, they don't even have ... SHANE WARNE All I want in life is to pet my dog and cat. After that, all I want to do is post photos of them. Mo... CAZZIE DAVID There are certain people who aren't with me any more, but they're with me in spirit. I just ... HENRY SPEIGHT I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead ... GEORGE CLOONEY I don't care about losses anymore. MARAT SAFIN I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want t... KEVIN MCKIDD When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within t... TASHA SMITH I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a sp... SHIRLEY MACLAINE If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want ... DAVID LIVINGSTONE Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even... CARLA GUGINO
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BRANDON ADAMS I actually believe 'Sustainability', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the hea... BRANDON BOYD I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an ... BRANDON STANTON Megan looked at me and blushed. A blush looked really good on her. Of course, so would soup, mud, or... BRANDON SANDERSON I couldn’t help grinning at the sight of her. Megan, in turn, raised a nine-millimeter square at m... BRANDON SANDERSON I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet. "You’re l... BRANDON SANDERSON What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked. “I’d thin... BRANDON SANDERSON Kaladin screamed, reaching the end of the bridge. Finding a tiny surge of strength somewhere, he rai... BRANDON SANDERSON You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanish... BRANDON SANDERSON When you are interviewing refugees, each person you talk to has a different story that could come fr... BRANDON STANTON Don’t do anything stupid." "Don’t worry," I whispered over the line, "I’m an expert on st... BRANDON SANDERSON The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats ... BRANDON WEBB I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile a... BRANDON BOYD I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to th... BRANDON BOYD Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excite... BRANDON BOYD I mean it allowed me to do that which was fantastic because we really get to see the character matur... BRANDON ROUTH I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think ... BRANDON STANTON Training programs shouldn't be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to produci... BRANDON WEBB The sniper is like a highly skilled surgeon, practicing his craft on the battlefield. BRANDON WEBB I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really ha... BRANDON STANTON Sometimes it is very useful to have a reputation for being a reclusive, amoral jerk. BRANDON SANDERSON Excruciating agony makes me cranky. BRANDON MULL I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't thi... BRANDON SANDERSON He felt a swelling of pride. Ridiculous, of course. He had endangered the kindgdom — how would peo... BRANDON SANDERSON There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spir... BRANDON BOYD Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king […] Whit... BRANDON SANDERSON A lot like Dave Matthews or John Mayer, I kind of stick with the acoustic genre. BRANDON JONES Same old, same old. Nothing special, but he's absolutely ready. BRANDON MACNAUGHT Next weekend is the weekend we have to wrestle perfectly. We didn't wrestle perfectly this weekend, ... BRANDON MACNAUGHT It's one of those things where you don't worry about individual wins and losses, you worry about the... BRANDON MACNAUGHT If it isn't broke, don't fix it. You want to prepare the same. ... I haven't seen any added pressure... BRANDON MACNAUGHT