I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.
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VIN DIESEL There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that ha... EMMYLOU HARRIS When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed ... ANGELINA JOLIE My first kiss was with a girlfriend. And it was at a party. I think I was hopeful that that would ha... TYLER BLACKBURN I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you... JENS LEKMAN The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like th... MAGGIE Q It's like this - because I travel so much, I crave certain foods or certain things, like from ce... ALEX MERAZ I like the collarbone, a very clean collarbone. I think there's something also very delicate and... GUGU MBATHA-RAW I think there's a, you know, certain kind of freedom for me when I get on stage. Maybe it's ... LIV WARFIELD I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps... GEORGE W. BUSH David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood i... STEVE ERICKSON I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big differe... EVELYN GLENNIE I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he&... TOMMY BOND I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. ... JEREMY RENNER There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do li... KRISTEN STEWART Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about bein... 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LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone t... ANNA SUI I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean... LISA GLATT There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of ... COREY TAYLOR It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You... JAY-Z Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total diffe... LATRELL SPREWELL There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someo... ALICIA KEYS What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense o... BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but t... MICHAEL C. HALL For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say... RONDA ROUSEY I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't ... RADHA MITCHELL I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrat... NOLAN NORTH I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way th... WALE I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appea... DEMETRI MARTIN I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it. CARL ICAHN A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound ... THE EDGE I think acting is a gift. I look at someone like Ben Kingsley, and he's incredibly charismatic, ... JONATHAN JACKSON I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think m... BILL PLYMPTON There's nothing like doing a show at home. When you do a show in Chicago, there's just a cer... CHANCE THE RAPPER There's a certain amount of pain and heartache that goes with being the mother of a star and tha... GEORGIA HOLT Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional... MADHURI DIXIT There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that... DOLLY PARTON I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher... DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a ... VINCENT CASSEL I think everyone should take an acting class. It's like therapy because you get to learn a lot a... JOELLE CARTER There's an honesty to Clark, Kal-El - Kal-El's the better way of saying it because he is bot... HENRY CAVILL When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a composition... CHICK COREA I think a woman's body is so much more sensual than a man's. I'm not saying strip off al... LINDSAY LOHAN Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a stra... MICHELLE WILLIAMS I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different thi... JAIME KING My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a backgrou... DAMIAN LEWIS As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it... CHRIS EVANS I don't follow anything that's said about him much, but the Uwe Boll that I know is just a r... MICHAEL EKLUND The golf swing is very, very rhythmic. 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BRANDON FLOWERS A lot of biopics to me feel very much like someone is standing in front of the camera and is reading... GRAHAM MOORE I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they w... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a r... J. COLE I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher'... DAMON LINDELOF I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers... JUSTIN TRUDEAU I like some of the young guys like Senator Thune. He's a guy that looks good. He's very arti... JOHN BOOZMAN We had a music teacher in sixth grade, and I saw her tune her guitar. I said, 'Whoa. There's... BRITTANY HOWARD Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've... BETH ORTON I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. 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CHRIS MORTENSEN For what Angie does, she's probably the best in the league. If coaches didn't prepare for her they w... CRAIG MORTENSEN It's obvious how much they've improved and made this team what it is. They've been consistent for a ... CRAIG MORTENSEN Their press hurt us. Glen�--wood was playing well; we wanted to keep it close. CRAIG MORTENSEN Foul trouble can hurt us. We don't have a lot of depth. CRAIG MORTENSEN We went to the Green River tournament with the hope there would be more competition. Unfortunately t... CRAIG MORTENSEN The second time around we need to stay focused and stay disciplined. We could still have a big game ... CRAIG MORTENSEN (Montrose) missed their chance to win it, and we gave a sigh of relief. Then we got the tip and went... CRAIG MORTENSEN We have to break the first line of their press. If we do that, we'll be OK. If we don't, we won't be... CRAIG MORTENSEN You never know if that means anything until you face each other. Maybe we were just that dominant be... CRAIG MORTENSEN Markie is going to outwork her opponent. To go from playing a couple of minutes a game last year to ... CRAIG MORTENSEN When I was covering them, they had nothing and the league knew it. I mean, in 1986 David Archer led ... CHRIS MORTENSEN I would think this labor shortage is limited enough where it can be solved by moving the labor into ... ERIC MORTENSEN What happens when we encounter a culture whose norms are very different from our own? Can we impose ... ERIC MORTENSEN So you walk into them and say, 'This is wrong! Take it away!' But wrong according to whom? ERIC MORTENSEN It will be tough to qualify for that one. . . . You get to state, there are tons of fast girls. RACHELLE MORTENSEN 'Stunning' is a word. But you really can't describe it. TONY MORTENSEN It's going to be a long, long bye week. Two weeks to think about this. TONY MORTENSEN The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, wh... DALE T. MORTENSEN I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to th... DALE T. MORTENSEN Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane... DALE T. MORTENSEN My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Acade... DALE T. MORTENSEN I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college prep... DALE T. MORTENSEN Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are... DALE T. MORTENSEN Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to commun... DALE T. MORTENSEN I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis u... DALE T. MORTENSEN In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners... DALE T. MORTENSEN As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the... DALE T. MORTENSEN Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions. DALE T. MORTENSEN Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a... DALE T. MORTENSEN