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Related I can't say to Elton, 'Hey, let's walk around the corner and have a coffee.' Someone... DAVID FURNISH I think most people think of ballerinas as kind of either as a fairytale, far-away thing that's ... MISTY COPELAND For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not lik... AGNES BRUCKNER Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from D... EDGAR BRONFMAN, JR. I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter w... ANTONYA NELSON Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a lit... LINDA RONSTADT Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album ... EDGAR BRONFMAN, JR. People love having a home. People love going to their house and sleeping in their bedroom and having... DAVE MORIN I've actually always wanted to be able to read people's minds. My sister did a movie with su... KAY PANABAKER It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is lik... KIRSTEN DUNST I have my new food line in the works - I think it's over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a diffe... PAULA DEEN The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. HENRY KISSINGER That's the great thing about having your friends around you. I've known these guys forever. ... DREW CAREY I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who'... JULIA CHILD You can only do three things with your money. You can spend it. You can invest it. Or you can give i... DAVID RUBENSTEIN I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard ... ALEKSA PALLADINO I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around w... JUDY BLUME For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house - they go there to hang out. You can actually see the... CHRISTOPHER POOLE The only thing I know is that no one ever sat in a therapist's or a psychiatrist's room sayi... JAMES CORDEN I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I thin... CARLY SCHROEDER I think reviewers have become particularly venomous because, in a way, the power has been sucked fro... TODD PHILLIPS A lot of young people feel that they are not part of society, they do not have access to land, educa... EDWARD WINTER When people call something a 'fail,' it's because you tried to accomplish something but ... BEN HUH The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first pl... JOHN OSBORNE I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people&... C. K. WILLIAMS I don't think that everything on Broadway relates to us, and I think that's why we as black ... STEPHANIE MILLS If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical ab... JULIAN BAGGINI When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there'... ADAM GREEN I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmi... IGGY AZALEA I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' a... NICK RHODES I love to cook. I'd hoped by now I'd have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 an... CARA BUONO Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, an... ODETTE ANNABLE I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I gue... EMMA ROBERTS The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it... EMINEM There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God ... SONU NIGAM Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but ado... MARKETA IRGLOVA I think you can learn a lot about a guy from the way that he talks to you and the way that he compli... ALY MICHALKA So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the ... AMY POEHLER I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think th... LISA EDELSTEIN I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramati... BILL CONDON One thing I really enjoy is that the atmosphere is a nice getaway. It's calm. Our store is more of a... LOIS BONDY You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens ... CONOR OBERST I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of ... JOE NICHOLS I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I... MADDIE HASSON I don't think you can describe your ideal girl. A big part of that is just meeting someone and r... AZIZ ANSARI I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don... LINDA RONSTADT Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen ... MIKE D We're having so much fun, it's not like we're in a situation where we're nervous or have any kind of... JIM LARRANAGA Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it st... GENE WILDER I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's lik... OSCAR ISAAC You really want some natural way for people to get Bitcoins, as part of their paycheck or some other... GAVIN ANDRESEN Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one s... DIMEBAG DARRELL Over the years, I've learned that if you can just hang in there and, regardless of what's pr... ADAM WEST The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute lit... HENRY ROLLINS I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can d... VINCENT CASSEL Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it sho... JAMES SUROWIECKI I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as tha... OLIVIA COLMAN Most of the time, people say negative things for a reaction, and I can't even bear to give them ... SELENA GOMEZ It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... May... ELIZABETH REASER The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter insi... LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR. One thing I think is great is that if you use social media really well - in a natural, personal way ... JONATHAN ANDERSON The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running arou... MARC ANDREESEN I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of peo... BLU CANTRELL There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews n... JANE CAMPION I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know?... BARRY JENKINS Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,'... M.I.A. It was great having those guys here, but it just shows that it comes down to a team, not necessarily... ADOLFO GREGORIO The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around someb... BILLY BALDWIN The funny thing about directing is that you have your own opinions, but it's a collaboration. Di... CHRIS EVANS As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to... DYLAN MCDERMOTT People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out... SERJ TANKIAN Some people can be president, some people can speak, some people, you know, anything that's posi... JUICY J A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can... VICKY MCCLURE There's nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designin... YOON AHN I learned that as much as you think when you're walking down that aisle that this forever, somet... BETTY WRIGHT As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't e... DAVEY HAVOK It's a really nice way to cut your teeth, doing live shows. It's like going to the gym becau... JESSICA WILLIAMS I'm not trying to be something that I'm not, and I think a lot of people can relate to that.... A.J. STYLES When you send a kid to college who is not prepared and then you flunk him out, that kid is walking a... DOUG HILL As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them... AUSTIN PECK I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's tru... ARUNDHATI ROY People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around t... CONOR MCGREGOR I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an o... CHARISMA CARPENTER If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the ... NATE RUESS The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a ... HAMPTON SIDES I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some... RAMI MALEK It's one of the hardest things in the world to sustain a monogamous relationship for many years.... JOHN NIVEN I wish I could tell every single woman with depression or anxiety or who has gotten herself into a s... CONSTANCE HALL The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is... EDMUND WHITE The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As s... ALYSSA MILANO I really wanna do a Spanish album. I have that Latin culture background. It's a part of me. I... DAVID ARCHULETA I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't d... LINDA RONSTADT Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-bei... LEEZA GIBBONS I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but... KATY PERRY I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. ... WASHED OUT I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's ju... PAULA DEEN They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women c... JULIA ROBERTS We just learned about this fetish where guys just give women money and know that they are spending t... NIKKI GLASER The best thing that came out of this is they really got their eyes opened to what they can accomplis... ENOCH BOROZINSKI
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