If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally r... LIAM NEESON When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you... PAGET BREWSTER When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out... NEIL YOUNG In TV, when you're doing guest roles, you're gliding into a zone where people are already ve... STEPHEN ROOT Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that'... JOE ARPAIO You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow... JAKE OWEN Wherever I go, people ask: 'What is she? What is she?' There has always been an agenda - the... ROMA MAFFIA But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always ... JENA MALONE I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real re... RICHARD LAGRAVENESE You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan... HALSEY I think everyone expects if you're in the lead, or if you're a favourite to win, you will wi... JASON DAY Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o... SAM MENDES When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that... VERONICA ROTH I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and th... MAIARA WALSH If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're use... JOHN CUSACK Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you'... DIANNA AGRON You go into an audition, you're either the one or you're not, and if you're not, you go ... BRYAN CALLEN One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. B... PATRICK FUGIT You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our... J. SMITH-CAMERON If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the ... DANNY DEVITO When you're doing a film, you're on a set and you have retakes and you have time to get it r... MEGAN FOX Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and... JACK HUSTON If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate. BRUCE COCKBURN If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go ho... NEVE CAMPBELL Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometime... BRUCE WEBER The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of... WAEL GHONIM Sometimes when you're in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there'... WILL YUN LEE Anaheim is not like Los Angeles, where there are more people and more paparazzi. You don't have ... ALBERT PUJOLS If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life... EVEL KNIEVEL Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidat... BETTY WHITE When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and the... LARRY SPEAKES Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And yo... JASON MORAN When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, ... ED HELMS If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, ... TONY KUSHNER If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirem... TAISSA FARMIGA Whatever you wanna be, just, at the end of the day, if you're being a good person, which is not ... GNASH I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the ti... ELLE FANNING If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you... J. J. WATT Because you're fat, you feel that everybody's watching every bite you take. So, you closet-e... AL ROKER I think the problem with people, as they start to mature, they say, 'Rap is a young man's ga... JAY-Z The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If... DAVID SIMON I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you... RYAN GOSLING If you read 'Lord of the Rings' and dismiss it as a lie because it has orcs and elves, you... DOUG TENNAPEL You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because som... CAROL BURNETT There is no fear in the word LOVE! For LOVE does not know fear... PHILIP T. M. Makeup is something that a female has to reckon with every single day. Whether you wear it or don... ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN I think privacy is valuable. You don't have to share everything, and it's healthy to occasio... ASHTON KUTCHER If you're healthy, if you don't get sick much, if you don't go to the doctor much or use... RUSH LIMBAUGH I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in... GARY COLEMAN I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone h... MATTHEW VAUGHN It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, beca... WILLEM DAFOE It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your ... CHELSEA PERETTI I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the... ASHWIN SANGHI I've lived in L.A. for a long time, and they say, 'If you sit in a barber's shop for lon... ROBBIE WILLIAMS Magic to me is you make a movie and it's all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you ... JULIA ROBERTS When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don'... FREDDIE HIGHMORE You would think with me living in Los Angeles I would go to the beach all the time, but we don't... MARISSA JARET WINOKUR If you had a job, and every day you're going back home and telling all your friends how horrible... STEVE SCALISE Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; th... NAOMIE HARRIS Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you'r... AARON TVEIT It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then... EDNA FERBER You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dream... NICK CANNON I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring... GEORGE STRAIT And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, t... SHIA LABEOUF When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ... AMY POEHLER If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your o... CLIFFORD STOLL It's one thing if you live in London and you're rooting for Chelsea or you're in New Yor... JOHN MCENROE If you believe in what you do, you are immortal. The day that you don't believe it, the day you&... CHARO Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding e... BILL NYE That's the thing with dementia. If you're with somebody who has a serious illness, you can u... JUDY PARFITT You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, an... CLINT EASTWOOD Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're ... GERARD DEPARDIEU In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a ... DAN GILROY Either you're this, or you're that: either you're - if you're a Pakistani, you'r... MIRA NAIR You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forwar... KEVIN COSTNER There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 ... MEG TILLY If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fa... YVONNE STRAHOVSKI Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you'r... FINN WITTROCK For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name o... LIAM NEESON When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like... BEYONCE KNOWLES If you're a juvenile delinquent today, you're a hacker. You live in your parent's house;... JOHN WATERS If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically... JAMES CHANOS There just aren't many little guys who are good actors. They don't get the training; they do... KENNY BAKER People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's n... REMY MA What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people... WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON It's a fun job, but it's stressful because you have to be funny. You have to have punch line... STEVE BREEN You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competitio... RACHEL BROSNAHAN I think that everybody's worked on shows where you feel like maybe a divide has happened between... JESSALYN GILSIG If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at ... BERNARD SUMNER If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices tha... KATHY MATTEA You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don&... TATIANA MASLANY I think 'The Sopranos' probably solidifies the misconception that people have about New Jers... FRANK VINCENT If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to g... ELIZABETH PERKINS
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