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DEYTH BANGER There are a lot of actors that I really love to watch, actors who I have fun watching - I think John... JARED PADALECKI Hustle is simple - it's doing the work. A lot of people like to talk about it, a lot of people h... TROY CARTER I'm sitting at home every time there's a Grammy. It's like, 'What is Sharon doing to... SHARON JONES A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have heal... NATALIE COLE You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think ... DARREN ARONOFSKY Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportu... ALEXIS BLEDEL I get a lot of girls who say, 'I just want to be a model so badly.' And I think: 'You ca... CARA DELEVINGNE You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. The... GINGER ROGERS We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like... DAN GILBERT I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy.... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to ... ANDY ROONEY Technology has changed the fan/actor interaction quite a bit. Now it's really easy to communicat... MISHA COLLINS When you play a show or festival, people know what they're getting; they want it. Then you'r... TYLER JOSEPH I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That... LARRY FITZGERALD These are stories you hear... of people sitting in a mall and being spotted, and you think it will h... NIMRAT KAUR Parliamentarian rules, the rules of the House, how you get bills referred, really the nuts and bolts... JIMMY GOMEZ There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to dir... JAMES FRANCO What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think ... RONNIE DUNN If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of diff... MICHAEL P. ANDERSON Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone ... MICHAEL IMPERIOLI Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why yo... JASON MARSDEN I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, ... MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be... AMY SEDARIS I don't really get off on the anonymous love of strangers, which I think a lot of actors do. The... JOHN C. REILLY I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a... JAMES PATTERSON Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reco... JONATHAN MILLER Hollywood is a very volatile place where artists come in, and they essentially say they want to belo... LEONARDO DICAPRIO A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached a... TY BURRELL Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it i... WILL ARNETT It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for s... BOBBY MOYNIHAN 'Chels-emojis' are in the works. I use emojis heavily in life, and I think a lot of people d... CHELSEA PERETTI Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lo... JOAN JETT I am very tall, and when you're a teenager, you want to be like everyone else. I used to slump a... ELIZABETH DEBICKI I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more inte... GENE SIMMONS I would imagine that the more time you spend talking to another person, the more you're going to... DAVID CHASE Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in ... KID ROCK When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spen... RIC FLAIR I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not wh... MATTHEW GOODE Steroids do not guarantee you're going to have success. I think a lot of people think that they ... TONY GWYNN Interestingly enough, my more high-profile things are in uniform. But if you look at my full body of... MICHAEL CUDLITZ Acting is a job you can learn a lot in. You get to play lots of different characters with different ... KELLY MCCREARY If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. The... STEPHEN KING I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted a... SALLY HAWKINS So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really kn... OLGA FONDA I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocrac... COLIN FIRTH I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortun... DANNY ELFMAN I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, pos... GILLIAN FLYNN In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't wan... JOSH TURNER There's nothing more confirming in your life than looking in front of you and seeing some really... KATHLEEN EDWARDS
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MARY MCCARTHY Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wr... MARY HEMINGWAY But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they a... MARY BALOGH ...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag... MARY MCCARTHY Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up childre... MARY WESLEY The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career t... MARY BARRA World peace starts with the Creator- Jesus!! MARY KATE We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story. MARY MCCARTHY A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a ... MARY ASTOR A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. MARY ASTOR It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. MARY ASTOR The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches. MARY ASTOR Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours. MARY SCHMICH To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certain... MARY STUART Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet
never really meet; and two others at ... MARY CATHERWOOD It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the ... MARY GRANDPRE to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is morta... MARY OLIVER You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles thro... MARY OLIVER The Uses Of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved on... MARY OLIVER Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, w... MARY OLIVER Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. MARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? MARY OLIVER Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing throug... MARY OLIVER Do one thing everyday that scares you. MARY SCHMICH [I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever... MARY BALOGH My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering t... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, bu... MARY OLIVER To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. MARY OLIVER There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to... MARY STEWART The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well... MARY MCDOWELL Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. MARY BUCKLEY If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call f... MARY PICKFORD I have never been contained except I made the prison MARY EVANS The happy ending is our national belief. MARY MCCARTHY There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. MARY LITTLE The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its me... MARY WEBB It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. MARY STEWART Saddle your dreams before you ride em. MARY WEBB Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY No pressure, no diamonds. MARY CASE Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. MARY BYRANT It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regar... MARY HENLE A child is fed with milk and praise. MARY LAMB You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call Failure is not the fal... MARY PICKFORD Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. MARY MCCARTHY A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito... MARY MCCARTHY If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to l... MARY DALY Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all. MARY DALY