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BILL WITHERS I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
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ERIN HUNTER Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens...
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CHERYL HINES When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked ...
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DEYTH BANGER I've gone through long periods of time when there's no work for me. You wait for the next jo...
CHARLIE COX If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
JACK WARNER Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You ...
DAN QUAYLE The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a mome...
DEL CLOSE There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't rea...
STANLEY DONEN Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much ...
AMY GRANT It's a bloody shame that all the video stores have gone, I'll tell you. Everything's so ...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It...
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BORIS YELTSIN There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality...
BEN WHEATLEY I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
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MARC ANDREESSEN No matter what your hair looks like once it's wet, it's about embracing it and loving yourse...
KESHIA KNIGHT PULLIAM The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
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BILL MEDLEY There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate...
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CHANTAL KREVIAZUK There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open...
TAYA KYLE It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.
TRACEY ULLMAN That's the challenging thing with TV; it's not the action scenes per se, and it's not th...
JASON O'MARA When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You k...
NANCY REAGAN Sometimes I get off stage, and I almost have no recollection of what happened. It's almost like ...
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GABRIELLE GIFFORDS Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON When people see my makeup, they think all types of crazy things that I'm doing to my skin, but i...
NICKI MINAJ You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possib...
BARRY JENKINS When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you.
KYLIE MINOGUE The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fl...
MICK JAGGER Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on...
BILL GATES I never understood when people go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so easy being pregnant.' No, it'...
CAMILA ALVES I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, ...
EDDIE MARSAN Contrary to what we've been told, life is simple. We complicate matters with our choices.
MICHELLE RICHARDSON If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you ...
CHRIS LILLEY It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door.
PETE HAMILL A good trick I learnt early on is not to immediately look at playback because once you know the shot...
AIDAN TURNER I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
JOE DIMAGGIO The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no central...
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AL UNSER It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan...
ZAKK WYLDE Because in a split second, it's gone.
AYRTON SENNA When you're sitting ringside, there's a primal thing there that hooks into violence and exci...
ANTOINE FUQUA No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-...
TATIANA MASLANY You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV...
DAVE ROWNTREE There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's...
ROSE BYRNE It's the playoffs. There's no room for okay.
DAVID ROBINSON No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because ther...
RACHEL KELLER Being on a Michael Bay set is... well, it's the only set I've ever been on. But I would imag...
ROSIE HUNTINGTON-WHITELEY Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much atten...
YOTAM OTTOLENGHI When you work with filmmakers, and it's their first film, there's an exuberance and optimism...
REBECCA HALL No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it'...
DAVID LETTERMAN I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped....
TAYLOR DAYNE I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It's show business. No show, no business.
DICK WOLF If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth...
A. R. RAHMAN As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it...
CHRIS EVANS Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever ...
AMY POEHLER When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach,...
CARINE ROITFELD I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too o...
TAMSIN GREIG A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You'r...
STONE GOSSARD I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it...
SPIKE JONZE Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot o...
SYLVESTER STALLONE There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out ...
SEAN LENNON A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say yo...
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can...
LEROY NEIMAN To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no c...
ANDREW WYETH It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
ED STOPPARD Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's ...
DAMIEN HIRST Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it&...
LOU HOLTZ When you're on TV and in people's houses - it's great that anybody watches anything you&...
NICHOLAS HOULT There's no denying that candy is comfort food and it's affordable.
DYLAN LAUREN I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and the...
MAGGIE SMITH You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ...
DEYTH BANGER Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't ...
CHARLES DURNING There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failur...
KEVIN SMITH A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.
HELEN FRANKENTHALER Hour-long TV is no joke. It tests you as a human being. It makes you a stronger person, but it's...
REBECCA ROMIJN I don't even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially...
ALEK WEK Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen ...
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MARY CONNEALY Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and ro...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
MARY HIRSCH Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
MARY MACCRACKEN I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.
MARY CHASE Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing th...
MARY ROACH