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Related I don't want to be 50 years old and not know what's going on with my kids and my grandkids. TORREY SMITH It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don&... JAIME PRESSLY The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them t... EMINEM I see too many celebrity kids who can't sing. If you don't have it, give it up, because peop... CHARLES KELLEY Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I don't like to spend a lot of money on haircuts: I'll sometimes grow my hair and get an act... PAUL DANO I'm the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids wat... MARLON WAYANS A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't... BRIAN SELZNICK Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and ... CAMERON MATHISON I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I do... STING I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to co... GEOFFREY CANADA I don't know if it's responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamou... EZRA MILLER At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. ... TYGA You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don't want my kids to just foc... KEVIN HART This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in y... LIONEL RICHIE It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not h... STEVE CARELL I'm just an actor, and if I can leave something behind that my kids will be proud of, then that&... JOHNNY DEPP Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the k... JUDITH VIORST I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'... BRYAN GREENBERG I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's no... CARLY POPE I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up e... SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR I don't know much about politics, but you have to look at it with the bigger picture and think w... MO FARAH 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 I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to... TOM BRADY I've noticed women my age and a little younger, anywhere from 35 to 50, saying, 'Who would w... MARY GAITSKILL I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'G... DYLAN MINNETTE The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them. ALEC ISSIGONIS My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' ... LEE DANIELS Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not... RHEA PERLMAN I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older. FAITH EVANS These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying t... DAV PILKEY Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify... BILLY UNGER If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids ... MARIO BATALI I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids. STEVE ZAHN People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't ... IGGY AZALEA People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don&... BILLY CORGAN A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to ... PENN JILLETTE I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by ki... CARINE ROITFELD I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it'... EVAN RACHEL WOOD With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next j... WILLIAM SHATNER My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act ... MATT GROENING I urge younger artists to know that you don't have to be anything you don't want. You can do... TREY SONGZ I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I wa... LAURYN HILL My favorite song is 'No Air,' a duet I did with Chris Brown. I don't want to sound weird... JORDIN SPARKS I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spen... AARON RODGERS As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'you don't cry because it's over, you're... PAT BURNS I don't watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do lov... GARTH NIX I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. T... TOMMY LEE My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything... JACK BOWMAN It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sou... SHAKIRA I love kids. But that's such a big commitment. And it seems long-term. It seems like a commitmen... ELLEN DEGENERES Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so ... KHALED HOSSEINI Whenever we can, we try to talk to students. If I can, I'll invite kids from a school to a sound... TROMBONE SHORTY I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobb... IRWIN ROSE I don't like to have time on my wall; it's too-in-your-face. BETSEY JOHNSON In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with... KEVIN HART I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on... TAYLOR SWIFT I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me... YOUNG THUG If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out... JACK WELCH A lot of comedians get a bad rep once they have kids and that's all they talk about, and people ... TIG NOTARO Guilty pleasure implies that it's something that I feel guilty for watching... people tell me I ... NE-YO I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I... JOHNNY DEPP In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I know black kids who don't even know any other black kids except their cousins. And that's ... DARRYL PINCKNEY There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids... JENNIFER YUH NELSON I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a ... MAC DEMARCO Like most parents, I want everything for my kids that I didn't have. But I don't intend to s... CURTIS JOSEPH The kids look at me, 'Ah, you're my hero.' I want to teach those kids. 'Hey listen, ... ALBERT PUJOLS It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I l... BURT BACHARACH I want a guy who's going to be accepting of - one, my big 'ol, loud Mexican family - and als... BECKY G People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids... TORI SPELLING All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty... WILLIE NELSON I know a lot of kids that if you don't know how to deal with them, you lose them. They don't... JIM BROWN I don't want to spend my life on an ice cube. JOHNNY WEIR I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my ... WADADA LEO SMITH Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the mu... JODI PICOULT I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, an... RANDY PAUSCH Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you ... LARRY THE CABLE GUY I don't like precious things; I don't spend thousands of dollars on jewellery for myself. I ... ERIN WASSON A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you'r... GARY OLDMAN I'm not trying to brainwash my critics. If they're critics, they're critics, and that... JOHN CENA My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Su... MARK BURNETT A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise ... ALESSANDRO NIVOLA I was born with my moustache and, no, I've never been tempted to shave it off. I don't spend... ROBERT WINSTON When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of j... KEVIN NEALON It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything ... CAM I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them... ALAN JACKSON I love soup 'cause I don't like to cook. It's so easy to prepare, and it fills you up an... CARRIE ANN INABA Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It&... ALAN CUMMING I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every bo... SUE GRAFTON I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I ... KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Kids are smart: don't underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot ... ISABEL ALLENDE My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were... PAUL THEROUX I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow... PAT CONROY I love doing kids' shows, and I love working with kids. I've done a lot of it. A lot of peop... 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TOLKIEN In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the... J. R. R. TOLKIEN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ... J. R. R. TOLKIEN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are... R. KELLY I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &... R. KELLY I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the... R. KELLY I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But... R. KELLY When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something... R. KELLY Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies. R. KELLY If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That... R. KELLY You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz... R. KELLY I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because... R. KELLY In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo... R. KELLY I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,... R. KELLY I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either. R. KELLY I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me... R. KELLY Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated.... R. KELLY You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seein... R. KELLY Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot... R. KELLY Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp... R. KELLY My greatest competition is, well, me. R. KELLY I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu... R. KELLY Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys arou... R. KELLY I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l... R. KELLY I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me. R. KELLY I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm... R. KELLY Wasted time means wasted lives. R. SHANNON