In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.
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Related I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because ... MARA WILSON When I was a boy, I read a terrible article in a big weekly American magazine called the 'Saturd... ROBERT ENGLUND Thank you so much for including me in this year's It List. I couldn't believe it when I found out! I... DAKOTA FANNING On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the major... KID ROCK When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of... RACHEL KELLER I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do ... DAVID J. C. MACKAY I asked Mom if I was a gifted child...she said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me. UNKNOWN My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of ... BRITNEY SPEARS My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was i... ELOISE MUMFORD I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My bro... JUNIOR SEAU I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense ... LARRY HAGMAN Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to p... CAPRICE BOURRET If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, an... TWYLA THARP In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. I... JANE YOLEN I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in ... ELLEN DATLOW We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred... WALTER SALLES [(Entertainment Weekly) -- Anyone who has seen the attention-grabbing trailer for] A History of Viol... VIGGO MORTENSEN Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book;... A. E. VAN VOGT Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other w... VICTOR LAVALLE I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm do... HAROLD SIMMONS I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was se... K. A. APPLEGATE My mom was really cool. She's the one that gave me the mentality about believing in myself and t... PETE CARROLL It is entertainment; we mustn't forget that. Dance is entertainment. You can have the best techn... DARCEY BUSSELL Many people don't realize that we actually produce six different newspapers and the HCN (Houston C... CYNTHIA CALVERT Many people don't realize that we actually produce six different newspapers and the HCN (Houston C... CYNTHIA CALVERT They were all wonderful sportsmen and for many of them it was a chance for them to get away from Hol... CURT GOWDY Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on... WAVY GRAVY I'm consistently asked how I keep a foot in two contrasting worlds - one in the entertainment in... MEGHAN MARKLE I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper. SAM WYLY I wanted to be a cool mom. It was hectic. I felt very isolated for a long time, but in the end, it w... YOLANDI VISSER I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdin... DAVID BLAINE If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up w... SUNDAY ADELAJA The most dramatic entrance for an autograph was probably when I was in Edmonton Alberta Canada or...... BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing ... JULIE WALTERS It's certainly anyone's prerogative to say, 'I liked something more when it was this'... JUSTIN KIRK I did a lot of choral music in high school, and that was kind of my primary, stable outlet for music... AUTRE NE VEUT I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of televisio... JAMES RODAY 'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought th... PATRICK FISCHLER How did I feel as a guy who was making a movie about a single mom who's a crackhead? That - I wa... BARRY JENKINS I was raised on T.V. dinners because in those days, they were considered a well-balanced meal. And w... LINDSAY WAGNER It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as... JEFF ABBOTT If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that wer... LEE UNKRICH Something that bothered people about 'Dawson's Creek' but as a writer, I kind of dug: wr... ROB THOMAS I am consistently impressed by reddit. I'd say on a near weekly basis, by little things. Whether... ALEXIS OHANIAN But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will ... JIM CANTALUPO [It's a] natural process ... The result is essentially a great song-oriented white soul group with f... AARON KATZ 'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was maki... JONATHAN TROPPER You look at, like, a 'People' magazine, which used to be a really good, you know, nice magaz... CHELSEA HANDLER I never, in anything I've ever done, tried to get you to like it. I was never going to succeed a... ALBERT BROOKS Children often ask me, they say, 'Well, how do you become a fighter pilot, or how do you become ... GREGORY H. JOHNSON When I started watching it, it purely was for entertainment because I didn't know if I would like it... BRYAN JONES I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool. LANDON DONOVAN I started off as a rapper from Thunder Bay, Ontario, believe it or not. There was a little group of ... KEVIN DURAND When I was a kid, I played basketball religiously. I begged my mom to get me voice lessons because I... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I was like, 'Well, why not? This is what you do. This is your job.' So when I asked him for help, he... BRYAN MATTISON That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television ... VINCE MCMAHON It's been well received by the vendors and sponsors. If it's successful and we get a good response, ... DENNIS CASE A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist gr... TOM COLICCHIO My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a... IRV KUPCINET I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price... CAMILLE GUATY Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities ... NATALIE DORMER I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling ab... RUTINA WESLEY It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it. MACAULAY CULKIN I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to m... CHARLIE HADEN It's amazing because people come up to me and say, 'Chuck, you're the luckiest guy in th... CHUCK NORRIS I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many yea... MATT DAMON I notice how well or badly a guy treats a waiter, or whether he's kind to some people and not to... SARAH WYNTER The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that... MALCOLM TURNBULL Once I realised that my job as a model was to emote in front of the camera, I thought, 'Well now... ISABELLA ROSSELLINI 'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going ... MACKENZIE DAVIS I was a very naughty child, on the verge of getting expelled, but I wasn't a bad child; everythi... STORMZY These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules u... DANIEL HANNAN I did a shoot for 'Sports Illustrated,' and my grandpa called me and asked when my issue of ... JASMINE TOOKES I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, ... LAMAR ODOM Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and... A. E. VAN VOGT Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was ... HAILEE STEINFELD For those who thought it was going to be some kind of a snow job because it was paid for by the cabl... PAUL SIMON When I was a little kid, it was not uncommon for a cousin or an uncle, before they would even say ... RICK MORANIS When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm... EARL CAMPBELL Sometimes I wish I was one of those artists like David Bowie. They're not putting their private ... JOHN GRANT I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, 'No, now you've got to go and get a proper job... KELLY BROOK I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never reall... LAURA TROTT If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with... MILEY CYRUS He kind of set the curve on weekly newspapers and stayed on top of innovations in the newspaper busi... BOB FISHER My parents met in the theatre, and I thought that was so romantic. My dad was a scenic designer and ... SKYE MCCOLE BARTUSIAK Well, I've been happily supporting myself for ten years now on the hustle and trade of live ente... JASON MRAZ Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's... LATRELL SPREWELL Don't say bullshit, don't lie what you saw in the film The Seasoning you will do it, I will do it an... DEYTH BANGER I was in Europe a little while ago, and USA TODAY ran this item about how I was washing bike shorts ... THE BEATLES My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family lif... CANDACE CAMERON BURE That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't... ALAN KING When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand... D. B. SWEENEY My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life. ELVIS STOJKO That's how they say it: He loves you in his own way. Well, what about my way? What if I need for him... TAMMARA WEBBER When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a li... NATALIE PORTMAN I do a lot of teen shows and voice over work for animation, so when I got the part in 'The Numbe... PAUL BUTCHER I got my first big paycheck for 'My Best Friend's Wedding.' This was in the days when yo... CARRIE PRESTON
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't. CHUCK PALAHNIUK There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Beca... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct... CHUCK PALAHNIUK A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. CHUCK PALAHNIUK You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. CHUCK PALAHNIUK You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm. CHUCK PALAHNIUK What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too. CHUCK PALAHNIUK When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? CHUCK PALAHNIUK A menos que todo empeore, nada puede mejorar. CHUCK PALAHNIUK You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways. CHUCK PALAHNIUK What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way. CHUCK PALAHNIUK A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?" "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, b... CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant th... 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