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GERMANY KENT I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER I was an in-between size. I wasn't tall enough to be a real forward, and I probably didn't h... JIM BROWN For a long time, there was this rumor that I turned down doing 'Austin Powers,' which is not... TERRY ZWIGOFF When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at... TAYLOUR PAIGE I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't fin... NICOLAS CAGE A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what ... BRYAN ROBSON It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn'... OCTAVIA SPENCER When I started on 'The West Wing,' that was at a time when this was still a stigma, because ... ROB LOWE I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car... ISAAC BROCK I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when y... MAGGIE CHEUNG For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playi... SAM BRADFORD I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And ... DANICA MCKELLAR I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered m... FRANCES BAY When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don... ANGIE HARMON In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my p... SANDRA OH I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the oth... ANTHONY HOPKINS What I want to say is that nobody is unbeatable. There's a kid out there who probably wants to b... CHAD LE CLOS Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn&... LANCE HENRIKSEN The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death t... PLATON I do a lot of cardio. I think it's super important, especially for women. I don't have a tre... ALISON SWEENEY A real estate closer. Oh, what's that? I'm a real estate opener. What is a real estate close... LOUIE ANDERSON If I probably didn't have tattoos, or if I probably didn't bleach my hair, or if I probably ... GUY FIERI When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V... VESTA WILLIAMS There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I w... FAITH HILL I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. 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DWIGHT HOWARD I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy. MELISSA MCCARTHY One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I wor... BROCK LESNAR I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so ... OLLY MURS Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt ... JONATHAN KOZOL Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good e... AIMEE MANN I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that... PATRICIA RIGGEN My only hesitation after 'Law & Order' was that I didn't want to be in a super dry p... JAMIE BAMBER I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself arou... IDINA MENZEL I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with ... ZHANG XIN Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did y... ROBIN WILLIAMS When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it - MS overall, as a subject, as a disease - th... JACK OSBOURNE Right after the draft, when I came out to Oakland, there was a press conference and a dinner with th... STEPHEN CURRY I find it really liberating to be in a place where I am a foreigner in every way. I've lived wit... JHUMPA LAHIRI There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Rom... TONY SCOTT Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a ga... BEN FELDMAN I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these thing... BAHMAN GHOBADI I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people... BEBE REXHA Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff g... TAYLOR LAUTNER I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was n... EVAN DAUGHERTY The truth is that I didn't start out making commercial movies. My films were not film festival m... JAMES GUNN You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, ... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil... CHRISTINA ENGELA I think that's why I was able to do well in the beginning: because it was such a foreign thing. ... AWKWAFINA My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. 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ELIZABETH PENA When I made 'Eight Below,' they wanted me to shoot digital, and I didn't want to do it b... FRANK MARSHALL If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's ... ISAAC BROCK I've actually apologized to some people I was a real jerk to, because I feel ashamed. I didn'... HOWARD STERN I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. MARK TWAIN I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it wa... DAMIAN LEWIS When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going t... AMELIE MAURESMO I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they... JOHN LYDON I didn't want to do all of the mags, and we didn't get paid for those shoots - 'Hollyoak... ROXANNE MCKEE I wanted to have a reaction from the audience. I wanted to be able to talk to somebody, and not be t... BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it. I... ALESSIA CARA I think the audience for Limp Bizkit is probably not going to be particularly interested in what we&... WALTER BECKER The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom i... KATE BOSWORTH I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane. ABRAHAM MASLOW When I did the video for 'Holding Out For A Hero,' we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon... BONNIE TYLER I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable... SIENNA MILLER In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the... AYUMI HAMASAKI I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I ... EDWARD RUSCHA I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted ... KAROLYN GRIMES At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I... BO BURNHAM I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that ... FRANCESCA ANNIS I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very ... HANNAH WARE
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BARBARA PARK I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus... BARBARA PARK I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f... BARBARA PARK For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job. BARBARA PARK All of my characters are less than perfect. BARBARA PARK There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of... BARBARA PARK In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ... BARBARA OLSON He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the... BARBARA OLSON Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon. BARBARA OLSON There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ... BARBARA OLSON From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ... BARBARA OLSON Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi... BARBARA OLSON Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi... BARBARA OLSON It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ... BARBARA OLSON Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ... BARBARA OLSON I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ... BARBARA OLSON The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t... BARBARA OLSON I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls... BARBARA OLSON The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat... BARBARA OLSON Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of autho... BARBARA OLSON It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize... BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life. BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them. BARBARA MCCLINTOCK If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o... BARBARA MCCLINTOCK We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at an... BARBARA MANDRELL What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want t... BARBARA MANDRELL That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow. BARBARA MANDRELL