I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.
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Related I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a... ANNIE JACOBSEN I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's ... PLATON This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one... OLIVER STONE I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up. DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope and she's mar... PAZ VEGA I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows. LIEV SCHREIBER I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the ... PENELOPE LIVELY I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff f... STEVE FORBERT I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to... TRENT REZNOR I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that ... DAVE BAUTISTA It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you... ANNE-MARIE DUFF I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. I... IAN RANKIN I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don... HOWARD HODGKIN The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as s... VIKRAM SETH I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I&... SHARON STONE I'm a historian, and that freaks me out. MIKE TYSON I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not s... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'... IOAN GRUFFUDD I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that... STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS I'm not too secure about my looks. They can always change. I was heavy and overweight as a teena... LORENZO LAMAS I'm not one of those women who's like pro women. I'm an individual, and I'm in an in... LAILA ALI Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I'... ERIC BRAEDEN I'm a historian in my own mind. QUENTIN TARANTINO I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our ... ROBIN S. SHARMA What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, t... JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.'... LAURA BENANTI My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm wi... HAMZA YUSUF As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write... 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JUDITH JAMISON I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a g... D'ANGELO I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of int... IRA GLASS But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going... MARK WAHLBERG I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to... FINN JONES The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get thr... DAVID O. RUSSELL But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if someb... ABBEY LINCOLN I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky. ZOE CASSAVETES I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunat... JULIAN SCHNABEL I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards... FIONA SHAW You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not ... ANTHONY BOURDAIN From the core, I'm a shy person, but when I'm on stage, I know how to put it aside. Of cours... LEON BRIDGES As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the... SYLVESTER MCCOY It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me ... ADRIEN BRODY If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike S... WARREN G I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal... NEKO CASE I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general ru... JOHN SIMM I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least o... TERENCE WINTER I think a woman's body is so much more sensual than a man's. I'm not saying strip off al... LINDSAY LOHAN Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputatio... SAMUEL E. MORISON I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as ... FEIST I'm the CEO of A$AP Worldwide. But as you can see, when I'm with them, everybody's equal... ASAP ROCKY If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long a... MICHAEL J. FOX I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's... RAY CHARLES As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an ... YOUNG JEEZY I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as poss... JOE SCARBOROUGH It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to s... DAVID SPADE I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black... STEVEN WRIGHT The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever. I've got... NIALL FERGUSON Unfortunately, I'm not 185 and 6-3 and can run and catch fade routes all game. I do the dirty wo... DARNELL DOCKETT I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things close... NANCY PICKARD I'm not good with sci-fi stuff. I'll be in it, as long as I can see what I'm dealing wit... CHELAN SIMMONS I eat many different ice creams. I'm not an ice cream snob, although I do think Ben & Jerry&... JERRY GREENFIELD Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's... MARK MORRIS I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference ... JILL SCOTT I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the ... GRAHAM HANCOCK Naturally, my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men w... ALICE MUNRO I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as ... FREEMA AGYEMAN I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake ... NICOLE KIDMAN I do the best I can when I'm accepting the role to say, 'This is about as much as I can do, ... BILLY CRUDUP I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the ph... CYNTHIA OZICK You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going t... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I a... CHELSEA CAIN I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to... VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good.... JANET JACKSON Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mi... HOWARD FINSTER When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn... SUSANNA KEARSLEY Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism. DICK VAN DYKE It's shameful to admit, but it's been a bit of a lifelong affair, and I do now feel I'm ... MIRIAM MARGOLYES I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role. YAMI GAUTAM I'm a very stubborn person. I think it has helped me over my career. I'm sure it has hindere... DAVID BECKHAM I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to imp... DEIRDRE O'KANE Cooking, to me, it's kind of therapeutic. It's completely different from music as well. I... PHILLIP PHILLIPS At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as ho... ALBERTO GONZALES The world that I am coming from, hip-hop, is so regurgitated and repetitive that some people are use... KID CUDI I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Ca... RONALD D. MOORE When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'... BEAR GRYLLS I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the... LUCINDA WILLIAMS I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write. L. E. MODESITT, JR. I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denominat... RAY CHARLES It's almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - I'm a musical goer, but I am ... DAVID LEVITHAN I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is ... RANBIR KAPOOR What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b... STEPHEN R. COVEY
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PENELOPE CRUZ As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody... PENELOPE CRUZ I had a horrible, horrible breakdown. It was just huge, like the worst period of my life, and it las... PENELOPE CRUZ I like roles that people don't recognize me in. PENELOPE CRUZ The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of... PENELOPE CRUZ I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling parti... PENELOPE CRUZ It felt like there is a dialogue between these two movies and these two women. They could be friends... PENELOPE CRUZ He's completely different from the others, and he has a special dedication to his actors. PENELOPE CRUZ I want to be the only one to show you everything and to be the one you'll always remember for the re... PENELOPE WARD To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a thin... PENELOPE FITZGERALD When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagin... PENELOPE SPHEERIS It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister... PENELOPE CRUZ For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good nights rest. PENELOPE SWEET Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere. PENELOPE GILLIATT I'm particularly excited about the sulfate results...because so much of the material we are looking ... PENELOPE BOSTON I bought you a dinner in an elegant restaurant for our first one and took you for a plane ride for o... PENELOPE WARD A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a... PENELOPE FITZGERALD I have this theory. If you think about almost any given moment in life, there is a Beatles song that... PENELOPE WARD Red dress, strappy shoes? wow. She's really staring at you. - Shit. - And she seems to be crying.Les... PENELOPE CRUZ Johnny [Depp] is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian. PENELOPE CRUZ you cant trust somebody who thinks you're crazy PENELOPE CRUZ he can have my body, but he will never have my soul. never! PENELOPE CRUZ I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the tr... PENELOPE CRUZ In the beginning, there was silence. L. PENELOPE But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste... PENELOPE FITZGERALD That made love—not grace—the magic ingredient. Then a new thought hit her. Perhaps love was... PENELOPE MARZEC This was a different kind of a kiss, not one that leads to something, but a hard, painful one. ... PENELOPE WARD I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little gi... PENELOPE CRUZ It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women. PENELOPE WILTON The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and ... PENELOPE CRUZ Ever since I was a little girl, I've worried too much. It always bothers me because sometimes yo... PENELOPE CRUZ I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice ... PENELOPE WILTON Letting yourself be vulnerable isn't always a weakness. Sometimes it can be a conscious decision to ... PENELOPE DOUGLAS Gotta love a woman that can hand you your own ass. PENELOPE DOUGLAS Sigh like the wind--open your arms, your chest, your heart--and all creatures will hum to you. PENELOPE SMITH No one else can make you happy, and putting that expectation on the other will doom both of you. You... PENELOPE DOUGLAS I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she's going to drag me there herself. PENELOPE DOUGLAS A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more that block her view. She needs a man standing... PENELOPE DOUGLAS You turn me on.” He cups my face, brushing my hair away from my eyes and a tear off my cheek.” PENELOPE DOUGLAS I bite my bottom lip, trying not to cry. I never cry in front of them. PENELOPE DOUGLAS He's a reminder of what I want to feel everyday, whether it's with him or on my own. He's taught me ... PENELOPE DOUGLAS My eyes burn with tears, and I'm so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to sa... PENELOPE DOUGLAS I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she'd going to drag me there herself. PENELOPE DOUGLAS