So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.
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IWAN RHEON I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,... B. B. KING I'm very grateful for social media. I think it has shown people my true nature, and through that... LAURA BENANTI I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lo... ZOSIA MAMET I'm grateful for everything. I'm grateful for my health, and I'm so grateful for the lov... ELLEN DEGENERES Interestingly enough, my more high-profile things are in uniform. But if you look at my full body of... MICHAEL CUDLITZ Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm... LEONARDO DICAPRIO I've been watching Michael J. Fox since I was a toddler, basically. I watched all the 'Back ... JULIETTE GOGLIA I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time a... DEBI MAZAR I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that wa... EVA MENDES Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now... CARLOS SANTANA I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that... GRANT GUSTIN I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that... SHELBY LYNNE I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war... M.I.A. I feel like I'm just doing a job. It's amazing to think that you affect other peoples' l... KIP PARDUE It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just t... LESLIE NIELSEN I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to ... BRUCE WEBER Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that. BRYAN BROWN Why does everyone think they need to be a star? It's ridiculous. The celebrity culture is so sil... JENNIFER GARNER I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female charac... RYAN GOSLING I like to think that faith has been a part of my life since I was a lot younger. It's definitely... NICK GOEPPER It's just so much fun to relax and just play baseball for a living. It's a great time in my ... FREDDIE FREEMAN I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the sc... GORE VIDAL I don't think I need a significant other to be happy because I always like to find that for myse... KYLIE JENNER I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but... ADAM MCKAY I've worked my entire career to try to broaden the perception of the WWE. A lot of folks think b... JOHN CENA I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overvie... RON PERLMAN I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people w... NAVI RAWAT I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too... K. D. LANG I've been making music for a long time, but I've been waiting to do it right, because I don&... EVAN ROSS I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write someth... G-EAZY I always have a rough outline, but I'm shocked at how little I actually follow it. Those charact... ERIC WALTERS I think it's really strange for somebody that's probably never been in the public eye. All o... CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it. DAVID SCHWIMMER I learned from working in the fashion world that if I have a day when I feel slapped in the face, or... HEIDI KLUM I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of wor... F. GARY GRAY It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me... DUFFY Once a week, I don't eat for 24 or 30 hours. Your brain becomes very lucid about ideas. It also ... CHRIS MARTIN For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even witho... WASHED OUT I'm grateful for every day I'm still alive. Everything is still working. I attribute it to e... JOAN RIVERS For me, it always has to be about health. That's why I'm a vegan. Well, I don't even do ... EMILY DESCHANEL I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Osc... CATHERINE ZETA-JONES The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and e... DWAYNE JOHNSON It's kind of stupid that people think I'm just partying all the time. DONALD CERRONE I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've be... YAYOI KUSAMA I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books h... GABRIELLE ZEVIN I'm not worried. I'm just so grateful to be in the position that I'm in. I'm just go... CARRIE UNDERWOOD I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. T... KEVIN MCCLOUD I look up and go, 'I'm living in the world I visualized a long time ago.' From making mo... RICHARD LINKLATER I think there are barriers, but I think for me specifically, my barrier is being rejected from the k... AWKWAFINA For my whole career, I've been a singer-slash-songwriter, even though I'm very thankfully kn... JENNIFER NETTLES Celebrity is a big part of the American social system. I'm certainly grateful for what it's ... ROBERT REDFORD Me and my buddies are all like brothers. So it's okay for us to say 'I love you' or what... PAUL WALKER People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... It's good to have a foothold in reality, a base somewhere that's always been a base. Sharman... SEAN BIGGERSTAFF That's the thing I'm worst at: resting. I have to be forced to do it. Sometimes I think of l... RONDA ROUSEY I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reck... KIP MOORE I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I... JACK OSBOURNE I lost the life that I knew, and I really had to rethink my future and think about my core values an... AMY PURDY I'm single. I just moved to a new city. I'm sort of starting over. I'm in Los Angeles. I... SUTTON FOSTER I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better,... 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MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in s... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO Nothing's the same anymore. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI All love is unrequited. All of it. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI As things unravel, it's a larger conspiracy, so basically after the second year ? the show you think... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. Th... MICHAEL J. GELB Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order excee... MICHAEL J. GELB A champion views resistance as a gift of energy. MICHAEL J. GELB Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriousl... MICHAEL J. GELB I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your hea... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by other... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion MICHAEL J. TUCKER Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and... MICHAEL J. COHEN I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI [T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its valu... MICHAEL J. SANDEL First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the prin... MICHAEL J. SANDEL I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemica... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix... MICHAEL J. COHEN They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, t... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintel... MICHAEL J. BEHE It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harsh... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided t... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl... J. MICHAEL BREWER The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time,... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ... MICHAEL J. BEHE The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula... MICHAEL J. BEHE Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc... MICHAEL J. BEHE The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or... MICHAEL J. BEHE Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ... MICHAEL J. BEHE There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I reall... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm. “Yes, I see it, but—” �... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN