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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I had just left 'Saturday Night Live' when I came to 'The Daily Show,' and it just f... ROB RIGGLE No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in... DARYL GATES I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after ... CHRIS WOOD MAYA ANGELOU I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anem... ALEXANDRA WENTWORTH With 'Sons of Anarchy,' I had to leave a couple of times - I got another show, and I had a b... DREA DE MATTEO They stayed to secure the house, ... Because during Hurricane George, we got robbed because we left.... BYRON SANDERS ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH One of the defense mechanisms I have for the difficulties in the business, one of which is rejection... BRUCE MCGILL When I got the offer to do 'Weird Ernie' in the pilot, I was living in New York, and somebod... BRUCE MCGILL RYAN GOSLING INDIA DE BEAUFORT If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The ... YUAN YUAN TAN They wanted to terrorize the people -- that's why they left the bodies. BOB MONTGOMERY As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to... W. AVERELL HARRIMAN They wanted someone who had played in the playoffs, which I had. And they wanted someone who could w... DON STROCK I have played Polynesian. I have played an Arabian girl. I played an East Indian girl. And what was ... RITA MORENO I went to Aspen right after school and got a freelance gig writing articles for the 'Aspen Times... DARIN STRAUSS In 2015, when I went back to the States or to an international conference, I found that people didn�... RICHARD ENGEL Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON ERIK LARSON A lot of my fans wanted a kind of 'in your face' song. They wanted a song that exemplifies m... LA'PORSHA RENAE WENTWORTH MILLER ÓSCAR ARIAS When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, t... TILA TEQUILA Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was so... ROBERT TOWNE ISAAC HAYES KARIN SLAUGHTER I can remember sittin' in a cafe when I first started in rodeo, and waitin' until somebody g... CHRIS LEDOUX I asked the seniors if they wanted to get up and say something. The seniors got up and thanked their... BOB DONOVAN The kids' hopes were down. But I preached to them all week that we needed to send the seniors out on... ANTHONY REINOSO We've got to be able to move the ball, run the ball and throw it. I think they felt that they could ... JAMES HARDY [And Iraqi representatives have said that they consider themselves to be threatened by other ethnic ... RICHARD BUTLER ARCHIE PANJABI As I understand, there were three of them. When they left work, they felt OK and went home. After aw... LAURA PRISC WAYLON JENNINGS J.K. ROWLING I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhe... MICHAEL PALIN I auditioned for ballet, but they called me up after the audition and asked if I'd take an acceptanc... ANNE MEGIBOW AASIF MANDVI A lot of musicians put diamonds on things to show they had money. I on the other had felt that Dayto... BRIAN MCKNIGHT I've done all of them except for Oprah. My shoes were on Oprah but they ran out of time so I was... MATTHEW MCGRORY AASIF MANDVI My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid ... ALEXANDER CHEE JEANNETTE WALLS They wanted me to start a dance class, so I went and got certified. GREG TALBOTT My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job... ALFRED MOLINA You couldn't hide from bad things and pretend they didn't exist–that left you with a dream world, ... SARAH CROSS My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hung... BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER JAY ASHER BARBARA MANDRELL Years ago, NPR tried to stop me from going on "The Factor." When I refused, they insisted ... JUAN WILLIAMS IYANLA VANZANT They wanted to meet with the senators and they had all of their people together in one location and ... JAMES PENDLETON She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wante... JEFFERY DEAVER I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said ... MARK VALLEY I was in a band that wanted to make the move to Austin, because they had heard about the scene there... BOB SCHNEIDER STEVEN WRIGHT After 'Arrested Development,' I didn't know for sure if I wanted to be an actor. I was h... ALIA SHAWKAT I think I've had the opportunity to work for people because I wanted to and because I thought th... PAT MEEHAN JACK MA BRITTANY SNOW I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Pho... LARRY BISHOP I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping... CLAY AIKEN In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldn't accept losing that time slot. DIRK BENEDICT NICK CANNON When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't eno... CAROLL SPINNEY ELIZABETH HURLEY We knew -- even with the halftime lead that they had -- they're so well coached, and they have such ... ADAM LORIA With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that... VALERIE CRUZ They had a clear idea about what I really wanted to see, based on our initial conversations, and the... DEBBIE ALLEN IAN MCKELLEN KATE WINSLET MIKE COLTER It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because the... FRANCIA RAISA More and more people are coming in. For Katrina, they had a shelter set up at the East Texas Christi... DON JONES In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had... RICK BARRY ADAM ANT My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had... KATE HUDSON We had it set that way, but we went away from it. The Salem ADs talked Bob and I out of it because t... CRAIG ELLINGSON MATT GROENING Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alte... CHARLES WILLIAMS I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy U... AMIRI BARAKA The first time I got caught, I had run away. When I came home, the cops yelled at me for an hour. I ... JAMIE BITETTO We guess they didn't know that we had that other side, and we wanted to show that. DALE STEWART They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moo... BRYAN ROBSON JACQUELINE EMERSON I wanted to keep it authentic, ... I even went as far as copying the original drum parts. I felt tha... BRIAN SETZER White people would come by here and, when they left, they would get harassed by the police, but the ... CLARA BROOKS The big hits they had were where I was behind in the count and I had to come at them. They got the h... EDWIN JACKSON Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm au... ADAM PALLY DELTA GOODREM I got an agent when I needed one, when I had a contract negotiation for the first time. I was doing ... SCOTT ADSIT I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so... URSULA ANDRESS Royce (Rowe) did an unbelievable job guarding him on that play. He went for the first fake, had to g... BRIAN VOYLES CHANTAL KREVIAZUK B. B. KING Ball control-wise, I think they (Bemidji) had to use their left side a little bit more tonight. They... LISA SCHRIVER
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I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. ... 
They never had a better computer. They never had better lights. They never had better communication ... 
I wanted to play a character that had clarity and knew what they wanted; I felt the distilled differ... 
I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a... 
My favorite zone is from 1890 -1915, that zone that spans the overlap of the so-called Gilded Age an... 
I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I... 
We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they support... 
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that l... 
There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted... 
I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day... 
One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the award... 
The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was tha... 
I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, lik... 
One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition ... 
I had always wanted a watch. Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the ru... 
I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to kno... 
And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I h... 
I've always wanted people to know who they are from the inside. Then they can create the life th... 
I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so... 
There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a... 
I think my least favorite hair color was the hair color that I had in 'Pitch Perfect 2.' The... 
Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say ... 
I always found when I was reading an interview with an actor that I wasn't interested in their p... 
I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who did... 
What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life... 
I've always wanted to be on a show that's well respected and had critical acclaim and that p... 
I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted i... 
I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a ... 
When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to au... 
Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I&... 
If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I ... 
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are... 
I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater studen... 