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Related I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really ... CASS MCCOMBS Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always neede... MARY DALY That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get sl... NIGEL HAMILTON I don't attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to m... HASKELL WEXLER I don't work all day, every day on 'Rizzoli & Isles,' but I work every day. It may b... BRUCE MCGILL The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know ... GAVIN NEWSOM I don't think it's about playing and singing, to be honest. That seems like old news, you kn... ESPERANZA SPALDING I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in grou... DAVID CARSON Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids ... BILLY BOB THORNTON It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think... HEATH LEDGER There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the p... ASAP ROCKY In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that. CARA DELEVINGNE If I probably didn't have tattoos, or if I probably didn't bleach my hair, or if I probably ... GUY FIERI I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I&... DEMI LOVATO I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on h... MARC JACOBS It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That'... LAURA INNES I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's tru... ARUNDHATI ROY Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the mu... 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CARLENE CARTER In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's somethi... DWIGHT SCHULTZ I think when people see photos of you out and about in your personal life, they assume that you'... LIAM HEMSWORTH I don't really have guilty pleasures. I like what I like, and I don't worry too much about w... ANN LECKIE I don't know how racists live with their racism. We need to take the road of love. I don't t... KENNY LEON There's definitely been moments in my life, even recently, where I've taken chances or spoke... TIG NOTARO I don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to b... BIPASHA BASU I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemi... ANDREA BOCELLI I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's fu... DEMETRI MARTIN People are going to have their opinions. Whether it's good or bad, I don't really think abou... SIDNEY CROSBY If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'G... VINCENT BUGLIOSI I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I jus... DREW SEELEY I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting... ZACK GREINKE I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says... MAYA ANGELOU The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the w... ERNIE HARWELL I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And ... HILLARY CLINTON I like sparseness. There's something about that minimalist feel that can make something have an ... BRITT DANIEL I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in p... NATASHA LITTLE I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came... CHRISTIAN KANE I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don... IMELDA STAUNTON I think the pageant system is about empowering women. I think that aspect of it is great, but when y... OLIVIA CULPO Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's g... JAKE OWEN I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I jus... DAN MARINO My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' ... LEE DANIELS I just think Valentine's Day is a day to really appreciate the person you love, no matter who it... PRINCE ROYCE But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwash... JOSH HUTCHERSON For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that yo... J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. ... ANDIE MACDOWELL Anyone that I know who wants to work in these fields by the sweat of their brow, the bend of their b... MARCIA FUDGE The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't thi... AUNJANUE ELLIS We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an Af... HENRY LOUIS GATES I think it's a competitive advantage that both Amazon and Google and other tech companies have o... BRAD STONE I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze ... ALEXIS BLEDEL I don't care how advanced technology gets. I don't think that there's anything that can ... ANGELA AHRENDTS I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers u... BRADLEY COOPER Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted... ROWAN WILLIAMS I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name ... FKA TWIGS I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at lif... MIKE DITKA There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might... CHRIS YOUNG I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a ... DANIEL HANDLER I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'... SAM SMITH I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being differe... SUSANNE BIER For me, I never take a job thinking it's going to grab ratings or that it's even going to be... KATE DEL CASTILLO I've got the long hair and kind of androgynous look. It's love-hate; it's sexy, but not ... 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I've always worried ... KAJOL I think 'The Sopranos' probably solidifies the misconception that people have about New Jers... FRANK VINCENT 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 don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don... JOANNA CASSIDY I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. M... CALLIE KHOURI I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it&... ALICE LOWE We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it... ED O'BRIEN I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more im... LAETITIA CASTA I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not t... RANDY HARRISON I like to wear whatever I like. I don't care about others' judgment or if it's right or ... ISABELI FONTANA I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you... LL COOL J I don't really have any interest in allowing other people's kind of idiotic, unnecessary, ei... ANDY BIERSACK What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and... NATASHA LEGGERO
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I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them. GARTH STEIN In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story a... GARTH STEIN All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thin... GARTH STEIN If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good bo... GARTH NIX With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than youn... GARTH NIX I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in '... GARTH NIX Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking ... GARTH NIX I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a b... GARTH NIX I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nons... GARTH NIX In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I ... GARTH NIX There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first ... GARTH NIX Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content tha... GARTH NIX I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very youn... GARTH NIX In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic. GARTH NIX I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and ... GARTH NIX I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age'... GARTH NIX Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music,... GARTH HUDSON I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there... GARTH ENNIS As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready ... GARTH ENNIS I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's... GARTH ENNIS I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the charact... GARTH ENNIS I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of... GARTH ENNIS I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can su... GARTH ENNIS If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write. GARTH ENNIS It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a ... GARTH ENNIS Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the ... GARTH ENNIS There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on o... GARTH ENNIS Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I re... GARTH ENNIS Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be. GARTH ENNIS With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure. GARTH ENNIS I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with... GARTH ENNIS The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as a... GARTH ENNIS Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want... GARTH ENNIS It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly in... GARTH ENNIS Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of ... GARTH ENNIS You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of missi... GARTH ENNIS I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and y... GARTH ENNIS I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I ... GARTH DAVIS I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how t... GARTH DAVIS Most of the available Indian films in Australia are Bollywood. I did not watch them. In my early day... GARTH DAVIS There's no doubt that 'Lion' is an audience pleaser. I mean, I went to a lot of research... GARTH DAVIS Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything. GARTH DAVIS I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the... GARTH DAVIS I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other... GARTH DAVIS The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives... GARTH DAVIS I definitely storyboard, but I only start once I have cast and location. I like to find the world fi... GARTH DAVIS Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me. GARTH DAVIS I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just mak... GARTH DAVIS Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers. GARTH BROOKS Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently wh... GARTH BROOKS I'm much too young to feel this damn old. GARTH BROOKS I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and g... GARTH BROOKS It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become ... GARTH BROOKS People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something. GARTH BROOKS You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is. GARTH BROOKS I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright. GARTH BROOKS