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Related I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out. DONAL LOGUE I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resum... IDRIS ELBA I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little sc... REBEL WILSON I don't want to reveal too much, but Ghost Rider is the Spirit of Vengeance. When he goes after some... DANIEL WAY I'm a big tandem bike rider... I've had a tandem bike since I was 12, and I wanna be a compe... MIRANDA COSGROVE I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of my... WILBUR SMITH When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little hom... NICOLAS CAGE great gandalfs ghost! if he had a ghost. i doubt it. he was such a snob... MARGARET WEIS Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. I... JOHN BOYNE I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason... DANA DELANY I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I ... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider. BUFFALO BILL Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a ri... VALENTINO ROSSI I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work. SARA PARETSKY 'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was ... DENNIS HOPPER If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternit... AL JOURGENSEN I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage... IMELDA MAY Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter&... MICHAEL DIRDA . . . Charles Darnay seemed to stand in a company of the dead. Ghosts all! The ghost of beauty, the ... CHARLES DICKENS One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider&... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I'm not 100% sure 'Rebecca' qualifies as a thriller, given it's three parts screwed-... RUTH WARE Miss Millick wondered just what had happened to Mr. Wran. He kept making the strangest remarks when ... FRITZ LEIBER It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting... VLADIMIR NABOKOV Well, it's very simple and it may sound strange, but I am Ghost Rider. It wasn't that challenging ..... NICOLAS CAGE I was 22 and had worked on Wall Street for a year, and quit my job. I bought a motorcycle and sort o... JON FAVREAU I'm a complete skeptic when it comes to the supernatural and all that. I've never had any gh... JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that&... LUCY HALE On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o'clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the ... TOVE JANSSON I had a donkey called Sally that I used to call my BMX bike. As a child, I wasn't a very good ho... LEE PEARSON But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backb... GUILLERMO DEL TORO I think the masked rider is one of the greatest traditions we have at Texas Tech and I'm really prou... AMY BELL I was watching John, I thought he was the strongest. The Gerolsteiner rider... I think he was playin... JASON MCCARTNEY My Misty Ghost- "Once, I saw a beautiful rainbow in the sky, and then, poof, it was gone. Just like ... LILY FREY I'd like to see a ghost. It would confirm there's an afterlife. MARLON WAYANS I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia. MALLORY JANSEN I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had. ILLEANA DOUGLAS He takes a draw on a cigarette, blows out a smoky ghost. I reach to catch the phantom in my hands, b... BRENDA SUTTON ROSE We knew he was a great rider in the morning, but you never know … if he's going to be great in the... PATRICK BIANCONE The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand... WILLIAM CAVENDISH Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a co... WILBUR SMITH She gave him a wan smile. "And then you came, Eragon. You and Saphira. After hope had deserted me an... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was s... SUSANNA MOORE I loved 'Space Ghost' when I was in college. ERIC ANDRE I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing hi... MAJOR TAYLOR Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed ove... SYLVIA PLATH There's a lot of movies that aren't all about Christmas, or where Christmas isn't the fo... ROBERT OSBORNE On 'Ghost In The Shell,' I'm looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and... PILOU ASBAEK I remember when I made 'A Scanner Darkly,' going, 'I hope people see it in theater - but... RICHARD LINKLATER If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try try to stay alive, and offer him some meat! TREY ANASTASIO ... I don't believe in ghosts - not the scary white sheet, boogie-woogie type of ghost anyway. And y... KAREN TAYLEUR I was sure I knocked down a rail. I was already aiming to be the fastest rider with one fault. And t... KYLE DEWAR I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my... BARRY WHITE I had one proprietor of a struggling bed and breakfast tell me, 'People want a ghost. I have to pay ... JOE NICKELL I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to ... JONATHAN MABERRY 'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicho... JOHN HURT There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There ... TERRY PRATCHETT This was my dad, for gosh sakes! After not seeing him for two years, I had finally found him-in anot... JOHN MCNICHOL Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, ... MALAIKA ARORA KHAN When I was younger, I actually had a ghost face mask, and I stood in my sister's room in the cor... RORY CULKIN I'd just got back from filming my role as Flo in 'Kidnap & Ransom' when I got the ne... KIMBERLEY NIXON [To begin with, this Ghost Rider is tied to previous incarnations primarily through the body he poss... GARTH ENNIS I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what... LIBBA BRAY Again the Ghost sped on, above the black and heaving sea -- on, on -- until, being far away, as he t... CHARLES DICKENS I've seen a ghost in my bathroom with no face, this is true by the way, and I had a yo-yo that r... BRETT DIER I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am n... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON The fog was where I wanted to be. Halfway down the path you can’t see this house. You’d never kn... EUGENE O'NEILL Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like ... VANESSA HUDGENS You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on. HARRY CAREY, JR. On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger'... GEORGE CLOONEY I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and the... MAGGIE SMITH I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce. MALLORY JANSEN My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas ... SOPHIE KINSELLA I didn't know what to think. It was like a ghost. FRANK EMANUEL There are pieces of me, small pieces, still in love with a fiction. A ghost living inside a living b... VICTORIA AVEYARD I grew up with a lot of monster movies, robot movies, since I was a kid. I love anime movies, like &... RINKO KIKUCHI He was as white as a ghost in that ambulance. It was very scary. JILL SELTZER I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was ... M. WARD I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the ... KATEE SACKHOFF I'm pretty sure my house in Florida is haunted! He's a nice ghost though. ARIANA GRANDE I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all abou... MONICA SELES I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a t... OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the ... NICOLAS CAGE I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction - I was bored! ... LIAM CUNNINGHAM I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional... SCOTTY MCCREERY 'Ghost Canoe' takes place on the storm-tossed tip of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, whe... WILL HOBBS In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at 'The Mail' on Sunday in the... MICHAEL ROBOTHAM In 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he's given her away t... ALLISON ANDERS I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weeke... THEO JAMES Someone laughed at me when I said it, but I think that Roberto is a rider for second efforts. MANOLO SAIZ Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'C... RANSOM RIGGS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON At the heart of every really good Christmas movie is the threat, I suppose, to Christmas. Something ... JAMES MCAVOY I wrote ghost stories because I'd always enjoyed reading them, and they seemed to be fizzling ou... SUSAN HILL I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyte... ROBERT STACK It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photograp... VAL KILMER I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. KEVIN MITNICK
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Hi... JUSTIN CAGE With him being on the floor, he's a lot bigger, a guy that can get in there and rebound. B.J.'s ... ... JUSTIN CAGE Him being here today really showed us he still cares. He's our team captain. ... He's such a big par... JUSTIN CAGE It's a funny feeling without him being there. He sits in the same spot every day, and he's not there... JUSTIN CAGE We're thinking about it too much. When it starts getting mental, that's when you miss shots. I don't... JUSTIN CAGE We've been working hard the whole year just to get our name out there. But we're staying focused and... JUSTIN CAGE I think so, because he's such an important coach and he's known everywhere. It's going to seem a lit... JUSTIN CAGE The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live... NICOLAS CHAMFORT All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. 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