I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.
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Related I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately... COMMON I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in th... BLYTHE DANNER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a s... RAFAEL NADAL If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some dis... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so ... JACQUELINE EMERSON I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone. DAVID KARP You go into an audition, you're either the one or you're not, and if you're not, you go ... BRYAN CALLEN Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people the... BUTCH TRUCKS I can tell you, if you shoot in the rain you're going to have a lot of voice ADR to do after the... ZACHARY KNIGHTON I've worn jeans until they're ripped all the way around the crotch and I can't wear them... LILY DONALDSON The whole idea is you can't sit around and do nothing. You have to get up and start living one d... DARLENE LOVE There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character yo... MARC DAVIS I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. CHARLES M. SCHULZ A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look ... JANE SEYMOUR If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively. MEL BROOKS I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when... PRAS MICHEL I've been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on ... CARRIE COON What I've realized recently is that the difference between me and Mickey Mouse is, there's n... CARRIE FISHER I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people ... STEPHEN LEWIS I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, 'There's only a few people... ADAM JONES I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you... LAURA PREPON You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's... SONIA RYKIEL I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role a... ALEXANDER SIDDIG Because you're fat, you feel that everybody's watching every bite you take. So, you closet-e... AL ROKER I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about h... RUPERT EVERETT I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be ver... RACHEL MCADAMS I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wa... DAVE NAVARRO You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot o... EDWARD WITTEN I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because i... DAVID NAUGHTON If you're down to 6% body fat, which I've done before, you burn out really quickly. Like, in... DANIEL WU Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad... KEKE PALMER I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don... JOYCE DIDONATO It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been wh... HELEN MIRREN Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to... MEL BROOKS If you can find a group of women, any age, who are supportive and kind and love you, that's the ... KATIE LOWES If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, ... MICHAEL KEATON I probably should have a brand, but I think you can't get the best artists to work for you if yo... BRIAN GRAZER Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the... RAY LIOTTA It would be fun to be a redhead... you can get away with being, like, really volatile and fire-y bec... ANNA KENDRICK One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. N... CARRIE FISHER When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone ... TANC SADE I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to c... VANILLA ICE A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly,... JASON STATHAM In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're... KIM BASINGER When you've travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you're y... PETER HOOK I didn't realize the ceiling that I had, and I don't think a lot of players understand what ... BEN ZOBRIST I'd like to prove that if you take care of yourself, you can actually not regret the fact that y... TONY BENNETT You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. Tha... BOB COLACELLO I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you'r... DAMBISA MOYO You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team yo... JIM PALMER I believe that in music and in a lot of things it's kind of like surfing, you can have a really ... DELTA GOODREM And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you'... RICK WARREN When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breat... WILLIE NELSON If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, ... TONY KUSHNER Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. ... JACK FALAHEE I hate myself in interviews. All of a sudden, you stop and you're like, 'Chris, how dare you... CHRIS EVANS You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in... STEPHEN AMELL I've never had a celebrity crush! I don't believe in those, really. I feel like you have to ... DAVID ARCHULETA Coming from the theater, I love the adrenalin rush from working on 'NCIS.' You get home and ... COTE DE PABLO I know with me, you really have to, like, pound me over the head to say, 'I like you. I really l... KIELE SANCHEZ A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can... ANNE HATHAWAY For summer, I definitely love doing stuff outside. I love beach volleyball if you're close to so... BEHATI PRINSLOO I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used ... STEVIE NICKS If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concep... JANE CAMPION If you're a coach, you've got to have a lot of confidence in what you're doing. Your ego... BUD GRANT I really think you can manifest your dreams. You can manifest your destiny. If you want something ha... BILLY MAGNUSSEN You have a lot more freedom when you're the sidekick - you can bring a lot more of your own flav... BREE TURNER I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in... ADRIAN LYNE Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself. DAMON WAYANS I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it... SPIKE JONZE I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but i... ELIZABETH MCGOVERN Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a ma... MALCOLM X I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write any... COREY TAYLOR The quarterback, you can play with a lot of big injuries. You get a little injury like an index fing... ELI MANNING If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplishe... CARLI LLOYD I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do th... DON YOUNG Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, be... LANA PARRILLA You know, you have a lot of people - I've met a lot of people in the past, I've gone to priv... ISSA RAE But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not ... DAVID LLOYD I'm choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You're the o... LIZZY CAPLAN I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be... MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a p... DUANE CHAPMAN I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long... JEFF BEZOS I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and... ANDREW MOTION Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you ha... LOUIS C. K. If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've l... MARY J. BLIGE I sort of feel like if you're slightly marginalized, you're hungrier, and you can take more ... MARILYN MINTER If you get to the point in your career where you're running with a gun - I've yet to run wit... DAVID COSTABILE It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to... KARL PILKINGTON No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or i... AVRIL LAVIGNE If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, an... PAUL SIMON I record all night and sleep all day. It started because you're excited about the music and you ... DAMIAN MARLEY You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really r... ANNA KENDRICK If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour y... DAVE CHAPPELLE If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to ... BILLY EICHNER If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting s... FRANK BLACK Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can ne... VENUS WILLIAMS Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and gettin... GUY PEARCE If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. I... ADAM FERRARA
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