The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
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LUCY HALE I get described as 'interesting' a lot. People often call me odd, too. Maybe they mean ugly.... ANNA MAXWELL MARTIN When I read a script, I always - the first question I ask myself is, 'Is there something that I ... GREG MOTTOLA It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Art is never finished, only abandoned. , (MAYBE) People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journ... SHANE SMITH My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculou... KATE WINSLET I got a call on a Sunday. 'Do you want to do 'The Godfather?' I thought they were kiddin... ALBERT S. RUDDY 'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being differ... JILL SCOTT It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of ou... ED HELMS The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it... NICK FLYNN The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gol... DOUGLAS BRUNT A lot of my friends were a lot into theatre a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids ... ERICH BERGEN About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I do get a lot of gifts. I get a lot of things to sign, too. People do collect the memorabilia. Betw... JULIE ANDREWS The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my ... SCOTT STAPP I made a very good living as a bad writer. I wrote a lot of comedies, 'Diff'rent Strokes,... PAUL HAGGIS I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind ... KATY PERRY I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer. NEEL MUKHERJEE I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things ... MARK TWAIN I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't k... JACKIE COLLINS We had all these smiley family pictures all over the walls of my house, but I always found those pic... DEREK CIANFRANCE I grew up three and a half hours outside of Chicago, but people would call me a 'hick' or ... BRETT ELDREDGE Being that I was raised in the Catholic faith, I am very careful about what I choose. I've turne... SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very i... DIANE KRUGER There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the undergroun... HAROLD RAMIS I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up ... ANNA WINTOUR I listen to the people. That was a big reason for my life, maybe the main reason, I'm singing be... JULIO IGLESIAS I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. Th... MITCH HEDBERG My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because m... ERIN ANDREWS I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everythin... ALBERTO MANGUEL I've read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhamma... CONOR MCGREGOR It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme ca... FRANK MILLER My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids ... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can'... YUVRAJ SINGH I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book... WARREN G. HARDING I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the ... EVANGELINE LILLY I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River... MICHAEL KORYTA There's nobody you can call and say, 'So, can you maybe send me your formula for frying Holl... WYLIE DUFRESNE I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because mayb... DR. DRE Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - ... KAIA GERBER I don't really have many regrets. I did miss a lot of the events in the days leading up to my si... ALEX MORGAN Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing th... NATASHA TRETHEWEY I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN I'm going to sound like an egomaniac, but I'm proud of so many things. I feel proud of my bo... TIG NOTARO I think if you take 'Get Ready,' 'Waiting For The Siren's Call,' 'Lost Siren... BERNARD SUMNER The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age. COMPAY SEGUNDO I can't speak in too much detail about a book or story I'm working on because I find that it... DAVID B. COE I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I loo... MOBY Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the... GARTH BROOKS When I started, I faced a lot of hardships. People used to call me a Rafi clone because I used to si... SONU NIGAM Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of g... BEN BRADLEE Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion'... ROBERT WINSTON I actually imagined 'Thunderbolts' as a straight-up comedy book in a lot of ways, like a ver... CHARLES SOULE What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because i... CARRIE FISHER I didn't particularly change my name to Fonda because I knew who Fondas were. It's still goi... OLGA FONDA Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's wh... BEN FOLDS I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of ... ESAI MORALES I think, honestly, that a lot of people think I'm sad and dark all the time, because of the musi... SKYLAR GREY 'Celebrate' is meant to be a guide to party planning and, as such, it has to cover the basic... PIPPA MIDDLETON I'm very lucky because people send me a lot of stuff and post cool articles and pictures on my w... ELISE ANDREW My house is very traditional. And I love 'shabby chic.' It's a very homey-cosy vibe. We ... BRITNEY SPEARS I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate ef... GARY JENNINGS Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I ... DOLLY PARTON I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers. ADAM FERRARA The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money. CATHERINE KEENER I've never gone back to the stacks after my book's expiration at the front of the store. Not... KAUI HART HEMMINGS If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people ... FLO RIDA After my film 'The Tale of Two Sisters,' I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct... KIM JEE-WOON I have great mood swings, maybe because of playing lots of different characters as I do. I'm lik... MARK RYLANCE I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,'... BASSEM YOUSSEF With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even ... COREY TAYLOR You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you... B. B. KING I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I... JASON KIDD I thought the fans were great, ... Maybe there could have been a few more in the stands, but they su... BLYTHE HARTLEY I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I w... JASON DOLLEY I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's becau... CARLY FIORINA I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based ... RAY BRADBURY Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own. GEORGE BEST I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim. MICHAEL DOUGLAS It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in gene... RYAN REYNOLDS Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book!... EDAN LEPUCKI Maybe that's some of the reason I feel so good today. Maybe I finally realised that it's jus... DAVID DUVAL
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