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Related It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textur... DWEEZIL ZAPPA Reggie is a (great) block-out guy and Ruben will go down there and battle. Sometimes, the ball just ... CARMELO ANTHONY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used... ELLIOTT CARTER I've been so blessed in my life that things have kind of seemed to fall in place for me. I just ... LYNN ANDERSON Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last. GEORGE ORWELL I love hanging out with friends. Honestly, one of my favorite things to do is have game night. Just ... MEGAN NICOLE It seems like if you are not painted up special way or have some tailor made outfit to put on to go ... PHIL ANSELMO I used to not even be able to order pizza on the phone because I was just so shy. I think that's... EVAN RACHEL WOOD I just love nice things. And I sort of spontaneously put them together. ANGELA CUMMINGS We've grown to be like brothers, and when you spend that much time on the road together there's no w... CHAD BUTLER There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There... JESSICA WILLIAMS I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the ar... WASHED OUT It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so m... ROBERT ADAMSON I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my ... CARMELO ANTHONY I would feel much better if we would have some consistency going in from the other spring tournament... BEN JOHNSON I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an e... ADAM CAROLLA Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you'... GEORGE ARCHIBALD Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you'... GEORGE ARCHIBALD When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beau... PATTI SCIALFA Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs not... STEVE MARTIN Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds ... PHYLICIA RASHAD Some of the recipes came from my family, or I just figured it out from how my family made things. Bu... MARTHA GREENLAW One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend ... VINCENT BUGLIOSI A sea of red lights, and I slow down. My job now is to gather everyone together and tell them we hav... KAUI HART HEMMINGS I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way. DR. DRE The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the avera... GEORGE ORWELL This is not an easy process of just going in and knocking things down or getting it in one sweep. We... DARIN MANN There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that ... WALTER BECKER I thought it was really cool when three guys from Duke University just spontaneously went down there... BRIAN MONROE I have some things to learn. But I can learn so much just by listening to what the veterans and the ... MARTELL WEBSTER We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when t... JERRY STILLER All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I ... IAN HOLM There's a serious and worrying return to the fall of democracy in Spain, and it's not just u... CARLES PUIGDEMONT I just think that there's so much judgment in the world, whether it's coming from women in g... HILARY DUFF Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you'... GEORGE ARCHIBALD What makes me angry, this whole season I haven't been playing the way I should be playing in terms o... JASON FONTENET If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the ... DANNY DEVITO I have no interest in jumping out of an airplane or any of the things people do for thrills, to push... ANDERSON COOPER There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much ... AARON RODGERS Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real li... PAUL RUDD I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right ... BRAD THOR I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work... TAMMY BLANCHARD I've not gotten so much stuff because I improvise in an audition, but I always feel like, if tha... ADAM PALLY Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single ... LAURA MARANO I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astr... BILL KREUTZMANN Everybody's just so much more relaxed whether it's (in the clubhouse) playing ping-pong or just hang... JODY BLOUNT I consider myself very fortunate. I mean, I think there's that old saying, 'Where there'... AARON DIEHL More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like i... KATE VOEGELE It was just everybody playing together. We came out there and didn't let down. JENNIFER CASEY Sometimes in life, things just fall in to my lap. I'm very blessed that way. AILEEN QUINN It's rest I want--there, I have said it out-- From cooking meals for hungry hired men And wash... ROBERT FROST There's something about a sign-off that seems predictable. I just say whatever comes to my mind,... DAVID MUIR The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can l... JILL SCOTT If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Some of the recipes came from my family, or I just figured it out from how my family made things. Bu... MARTHA GREENLAW I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from ... PARKER POSEY Of course I have the license to make up things, but I think a lot of what's written about China ... ANCHEE MIN I love going one-on-one with someone. That's what I do. I've never lost. It's a whole di... KOBE BRYANT While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in mul... HOWARD GARDNER We're just not playing aggressively enough in our brains to make things happen that are right there ... CHARLIE HARVEY When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually ha... ADAM YAUCH People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a ... HALLE BERRY It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing ... JOAN BAEZ In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyri... MANDY PATINKIN I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and s... BILL HADER I think live music is really, really important. And I think it's very important to do together. ... SANDRA TSING LOH I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arr... TRENT REZNOR I try to just encompass the entire feeling and emotion behind the song the best way possible, and if... BRANTLEY GILBERT We don't have to sit here and say things that undermine them. We're just going to go out there and p... RAY HENDERSON 'Baby's Day Out' is maybe not a great movie, but... No, I've enjoyed and learned thi... JOHN KNOLL I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who e... DARIUS RUCKER We've been down that much in the past, but not this year. But I told the guys, it's a full game and ... CURT SCHMIDT I haven't always made all of the right decisions from a career perspective, but things worked ou... PATTY SMYTH If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestl... OLIVIA COLMAN I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it... DARREN CRISS I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, ... JUDI DENCH There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and wha... HENRY PETROSKI There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have alw... DAVE MATTHEWS There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but that's m... ROGER DEAKINS I really like to go for the essence of things - the most beautiful parts of things - of human beings... BILL KREUTZMANN Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know ... JOHN HURT One of the better pitchers we have seen all season. It just happened that there in the fifth it star... JENNIFER NOLTE I found a book facing out that I'd always meant to read: William Shirer's 'The Rise and ... ERIK LARSON I used to rely too much on arrangements and production, things like dancers and explosions. THALIA In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of... PATRICK STUMP You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. Yo... IRIS APFEL Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 1... RICKIE LEE JONES You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There&... CHARLIE SHEEN When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's s... ERIC BETZIG We just weren't playing together. I think we used too much emotion in an exciting game on Friday and... KAREN AIROLA My mom just wants to make sure that my heart is always in whatever I do and I'm in things for th... KEVIN DURANT It's not really [more difficult]. You try to put the pieces together to win a game. The guys who are... BOBBY COX I feel like I'm playing better. The things that I've worked on have really, really started to solidi... TIGER WOODS 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 Things just need to fall into place. They need to go out, play and get the feel of what it takes to ... BOB KUMMER The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, ... SHEILA E. I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that pa... CORY DOCTOROW It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing. KEN JENNINGS
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CHUCK NORRIS To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you... CHUCK NORRIS If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Despite what Washington thinks or does on this 15th anniversary, we the people will never forget tho... CHUCK NORRIS Good things happen to those who hustle. CHUCK NOLL In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since. CHUCK YEAGER There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up... CHUCK SCHUMER Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibili... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. CHUCK PALAHNIUK I can't lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. I'm so grateful to all my fans. I co... CHUCK BROWN You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the ... CHUCK YEAGER Don't let the same dog bite you twice. CHUCK BERRY I'm thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up. CHUCK BERRY We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax... CHUCK PALAHNIUK What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like gr... CHUCK PALAHNIUK If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the ... CHUCK NORRIS Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a h... CHUCK NORRIS The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never... CHUCK NOLL My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issu... CHUCK PALAHNIUK In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagn... CHUCK PALAHNIUK That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened... CHUCK BERRY In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying th... CHUCK CLOSE Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews. CHUCK BERRY