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Related A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on st... ANGUS YOUNG There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and ev... WALLACE SHAWN Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen ... PAUL MOONEY Getting to No. 1 makes everyone feel better; of course it does. But it's swings and roundabouts ... PAUL WELLER Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why yo... JASON MARSDEN I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same w... TAYLOR SWIFT I do go back to Russia frequently, about twice a year. I hate the flight, but it's worth it. My ... OLESYA RULIN That's what you have to learn with life. It's your life at the end of the day. There's r... TREVOR JACKSON There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lo... ESPERANZA SPALDING I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person... ESA-PEKKA SALONEN People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But th... BRYAN BATT There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when peo... IKE BARINHOLTZ Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're n... MAX GREENFIELD There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're fa... BETTY WILLIAMS There's no way that anyone can know the ebb and flow of one's career. You can't know tha... HOLLY HUNTER There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight.... AL ROKER No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may see... DEMI LOVATO You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find o... WYCLEF JEAN It's like a jigsaw, there's a piece of the puzzle at the beginning and it's the only one... CAROLE BOUQUET It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don&... JOHN HUGHES You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I&... CATE BLANCHETT Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do i... TOM SIZEMORE There's no quick or magical way to lose weight. You just have to do it the natural way - diet an... JORDIN SPARKS With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew... MAIKA MONROE There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do thin... TAYLOR SCHILLING There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book ... SCOTTY MOORE There's something about the schedule of working in TV that's attractive. You know exactly wh... NAT FAXON Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose y... RICHARD PRICE Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not ne... EMMA THOMPSON No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, ... KARL LAGERFELD Honestly, I've always loved cheesesteaks. They're kind of my go-to when there's nothing ... CARSON WENTZ The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there... DAVID LLOYD There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the ot... DAVID CARRADINE I love being tall. as you literally look at life from a different perspective: it's easier to br... GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got ... JOHN LYDON There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always... ZAC EFRON There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and yo... ANNETTE BENING It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sou... SHAKIRA My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it... ZOE KAZAN Pretty much, the writer's in charge in theater. Of course you're in charge with the director... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE Nobody wants to make a bad 'Flight of the Navigator' remake. There's just no interest. W... COLIN TREVORROW At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting f... LESTER HOLT There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing o... CARA DELEVINGNE Every day that you're on set is a new day to learn something. Every time you're there, there... ISAAC HEMPSTEAD WRIGHT It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day. SAMANTHA FOX It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, t... KOBE BRYANT The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save you... DAVID BOWIE If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's... JESSE EISENBERG The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of... MARJANE SATRAPI Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I ... PAZ VEGA You hit those valleys sometimes and it's really frustrating. It's like getting stuck in traf... JASON BATEMAN You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my jo... SAM HUNTINGTON There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there... WYNTON MARSALIS If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all... GEORGE LUCAS Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ... J. J. WATT Find what you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life, that's true. But also alw... LISA VANDERPUMP There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality... BEN WHEATLEY When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You k... NANCY REAGAN There's nothing that everyone likes in the world. People have different opinions. It's just ... MIYAVI When people see my makeup, they think all types of crazy things that I'm doing to my skin, but i... NICKI MINAJ You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can unders... HOLLY HUNTER We all have different things that we go through in our everyday life, and it's really important ... KELLY ROWLAND It's one thing to have a scouting report and not be able to execute it, and it's completely ... JAKE ARRIETA There's nothing like having a football coach yelling at you at homecoming in front of a bunch of... SUZAN DELBENE I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syll... YELAWOLF There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be te... JOHN CUSACK Whether you agree with Julian Assange or what he's doing, there's no question of the impact ... CAMERON WINKLEVOSS There'll never be another 'MASH.' There's nothing in the way of doing your best work... HARRY MORGAN I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of t... DREW SIDORA So many times, when you're doing a job, you feel like you're a nuisance at times to people, ... CRAIG SAGER There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of ... WAYNE DYER I really like playing other people. There is no other feeling like it, to have a different voice com... CRISTIN MILIOTI In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. The... JULIETTE BINOCHE It sounds kind of farfetched, yet I can't tell you how many people have had this syndrome... the... GEORGE NOORY Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of. WALTER O'BRIEN I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell y... BRIAN SETZER There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard... EDDIE MARSAN There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can... NEALE DONALD WALSCH At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through y... FELIX BAUMGARTNER There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designe... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a ... AZIZ ANSARI It's different as a guest as opposed to being a star of a series. A guest star is a whole differ... DONNIE WAHLBERG Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong ... JEWEL Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into ot... SALLY HAWKINS When I'm bored or tired of being blonde, I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a perma... SARA BLAKELY That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And wh... LUKE BRYAN I felt that 'Deep Space' was the way to do a spin off series of an existing franchise where ... RONALD D. MOORE Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning abou... TWIGGY Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you ... TOMMY CALDWELL Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot o... SYLVESTER STALLONE People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but ma... MARTIN SCORSESE There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's agains... ERIC STOLTZ You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't ... CALLIE KHOURI I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and e... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of,... VERNON WELLS No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it. ZOLA JESUS But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. Th... JEANNE TRIPPLEHORN There's nothing more powerful than to consider why you're running, no matter what pain you... ELOISE WELLINGS Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a... HELENA BONHAM CARTER 'Days of Our Lives' was an insane schedule. You're doing a whole one-hour show in a day.... CHARLES SHAUGHNESSY
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