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Related There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you kn... ELON MUSK I've always been very comfortable wearing not much, in my swimwear or my underwear, or running a... MIRANDA KERR I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and ... NANCY MEYERS I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always... JOHN LENNON I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think t... NENE LEAKES I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don'... CHUCK NOLL I'm way flashier on Instagram and Snapchat because I feel like that's what people want to se... KYLIE JENNER I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not an... SYD BARRETT I'm very comfortable with how I look. I always have been. I think I look pretty good. There'... AVRIL LAVIGNE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've... JOHN HURT I've never been a popular person, but it doesn't matter. I have everything in my life that I... VINCENT GALLO I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child. I don'... NEON HITCH I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use. MARILYN MANSON It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Ca... ADELE I don't have Facebook; I don't have Twitter. I don't have anything because, believe it o... WISSAM AL MANA I was brought up by my mum and my sister. I've always been around independent women; I like that... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON I don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to b... BIPASHA BASU I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but ... MADELINE ZIMA I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or an... JAMES MCAVOY I'm a bit of a slag... Some people don't think it's very nice, but I don't care... I... ROBBIE WILLIAMS I don't have any concerns about my weight. I've always been healthy. I eat right. I'm ju... RUBEN STUDDARD I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've... TIM DUNCAN I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that'... KARRINE STEFFANS In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires... BRAM COHEN I really don't care what people think of me. I've got my family. I've got my friends. Ye... CHRIS KYLE I've never been crazy. I'm a very good girl, to be honest. I don't do anything to hurt a... LEIGHTON MEESTER I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls. TABITHA SOREN In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But ... JANUARY JONES It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not... PSY I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It'... LARRY THE CABLE GUY I have a very eclectic iPod. So I've got my cardio people - so it's anything from Beyonce to... MICHELLE OBAMA I would like to do a music person's story, a bio. I've wanted to do Aaliyah forever. But I d... KEKE PALMER I purposefully did not want to watch anything I've done so far; I actually don't like lookin... SAM CLAFLIN People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. ... USAIN BOLT I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much.... ADAM SANDLER I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I... EDMUND HILLARY I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very... ANDREW SULLIVAN I don't try to be someone I'm not - I've always followed my heart and trance has always ... ARMIN VAN BUUREN I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with peopl... SHIRLEY MANSON I've always been one foot in, one foot out of this game because I'm not comfortable with bei... PAUL WALKER I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't ... BILLY GRAHAM I've been able to see some very impressive people that are in politics, and I've been able t... DONALD TRUMP, JR. I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smar... LARRY WALL I'm so excited about 'Shattered;' it's something I've really enjoyed working in,... CALLUM KEITH RENNIE I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't ... LAPO ELKANN I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around p... NATE DIAZ If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy,... MIKE BIRBIGLIA So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual pers... SOPHIA BUSH Sometimes, I get so annoyed when other people brag. And sometimes, I know that I'm better than t... ERIKA CHRISTENSEN I've accomplished so many things in basketball. I financially secured my kids' life and thei... ALLEN IVERSON I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried ... KAJOL 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 As an adult, I've always tried to be a good person my whole life, so I've made good friends,... ROMAN REIGNS I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been ... DARYL HANNAH I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don... HANNAH WARE Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always bee... PAIGE BUTCHER Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I've never been good at getting on people's nerves, and from the little quotes I read, it... ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good wr... PATTON OSWALT I will say I was a lot bigger as Superman. A lot bigger. I'm not saying how much. It's modes... HENRY CAVILL I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all. GARY SINISE I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes... ARUNDHATI ROY I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on se... KRISTEN STEWART Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don'... DAVID NIVEN You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap sta... BRANDON FLOWERS I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've ju... YVETTE NICOLE BROWN I have never been offended. I don't know what it means. It's not that I disagree with it. I ... MILO YIANNOPOULOS I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I... CATHERINE TATE I just don't like showing everything I've got. I don't want to look like I'm trying ... ELISHA CUTHBERT I've proven I'm courageous. I'm gutsier than anybody; I've got a better imagination ... MICHAEL KEATON I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don'... RACHEL JOHNSON Some people are really proud of me, and some don't like it. I don't really know what to tell... BRYSON TILLER I'm a lot more comfortable in the ring. I'm comfortable catching punches, and defensively, I... SONNY BILL WILLIAMS I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encou... JOEL OSTEEN I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior pow... BOB DYLAN I'm not a security-type person: I don't want to have bodyguards around me. I'm not into ... THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done bef... DAVID GALLAGHER It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a mela... NORAH JONES I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but dist... GARY NUMAN About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afra... TAMAR BRAXTON Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It&... DAX SHEPARD My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast... STEVEN SPIELBERG I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbro... BOY GEORGE Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more... DANA HILL I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I'v... EVAN PARKER It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on... KATARINA WITT Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm... LEONARDO DICAPRIO For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doi... EMMA CAULFIELD I'm always in flats. Jeans, jumper, flat shoes or a pair of trainers. It would probably surprise... VICTORIA BECKHAM I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I d... CHARLENE TILTON It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just t... LESLIE NIELSEN I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a da... TODD ENGLISH I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don&... MARK WAHLBERG
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GARY SINISE I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I kn... GARY SINISE My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go... GARY SINISE You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on t... GARY SINISE The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to ... GARY SINISE Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine run... GARY SINISE Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them. GARY SINISE I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America. GARY SHTEYNGART In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, bu... GARY SHTEYNGART I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do ... GARY SHTEYNGART I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who re... GARY SHTEYNGART I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. ... GARY SHTEYNGART American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it. GARY SHTEYNGART Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so importa... GARY SHTEYNGART I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both t... GARY SHTEYNGART If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch. GARY SHTEYNGART That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my mult... GARY SHTEYNGART I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pret... GARY SHTEYNGART A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it... GARY SHTEYNGART I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them se... GARY SHTEYNGART In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, ... GARY SHTEYNGART I don't have many possessions, apart from my books. GARY SHTEYNGART I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We'... GARY SHTEYNGART I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbeli... GARY SHTEYNGART Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person th... GARY SHTEYNGART I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creati... GARY SHTEYNGART Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph... GARY SHTEYNGART The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a n... GARY SHTEYNGART When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've g... GARY SHTEYNGART Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissiv... GARY SHTEYNGART I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot. GARY SHTEYNGART In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it. GARY SHERMAN Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than sc... GARY SHERMAN I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. T... GARY SHERMAN You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more h... GARY SHERMAN I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to ... GARY SHERMAN The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political ... GARY SHERMAN The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more t... GARY SHERMAN Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a stu... GARY SHERMAN