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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 Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH BRUCE DICKINSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON 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 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 There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's sli... NAOMI WATTS About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS RICK RIORDAN SARA EVANS I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES MEGAN FOX HANK HANEY LONI LOVE Lindsay Lohan was the 'It' girl from, like, 14. That's a lot of pressure. SAOIRSE RONAN RICK RIORDAN JAMES WOLCOTT GEORGE LOIS Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS LUCAN LUCAN I'm the antidote to Lindsay Lohan. I know she misbehaves terribly, but sometimes it just seems l... RAQUEL WELCH The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Dra... ADAM GARCIA In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting... JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!'... DONALD DRIVER JIMMY KIMMEL Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."GORDON KORMAN MARILYN MANSON When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs w... WYNTER GORDON When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the ... SHEPARD SMITH SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA SENECA J. R. MARTINEZ We have tears in our eyes ROALD DAHL It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can&#... RACHEL ZOE I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing goi... CHRISSIE HYNDE ANDERSON COOPER I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I tur... GEORGE OSBORNE Sometimes I think my past life was unrealized. I met a tragic end - it might have been a car over a ... CHRISTINE EBERSOLE Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of fro... HEATHER MILLS I will do 'Dancing with the Stars' when my career dips. PAULY D DENZEL WASHINGTON CHRIS PINE WAYNE DYER KIM KARDASHIAN AMIT RAY CARL HIAASEN CHRIS LOWE I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and... ADAM SCHLESINGER DIANNA AGRON DAX SHEPARD They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier... BRUCE BOXLEITNER My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down'... SALLY PHILLIPS AIMEE MANN I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I'v... DAVID NEVINS BENNY GREEN MARLEE MATLIN I'm from Indiana. I know what you're thinking, Indiana... Mafia. But in Indiana it's not... JIM GAFFIGAN I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with P... ALICE EVE People always ask, is she named after the celebrity Paris Hilton? BETSY COMPERRY It's all about becoming a more well-rounded player and not a one-dimensional player. You might h... PETER UIHLEIN It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I wa... SAMIRA WILEY When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking... PATRICK O'BRIAN Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not... RHEA PERLMAN ELISHA CUTHBERT VENUS WILLIAMS When Ron Howard does 'Rush,' he has to learn and steep himself in F1 culture and European ra... JON FAVREAU RACHEL MCADAMS JOANNA KRUPA STEVE GLEASON ARNOLD PALMER MALCOLM MCLAREN ISLA FISHER KATY PERRY 'Dancing With the Stars' really opened a lot of doors for me, and I'm so grateful for th... CHELSEA KANE ESPERANZA SPALDING I've seen a lot of people - for example, Lindsay Lohan - who got into the wrong crowd. I always ... ASHLEY BENSON She gets away with it. Everybody co-signs her bad behavior. It's like we all are co-dependent on... JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you&... BRIAN J. WHITE ORNETTE COLEMAN VERA WANG VAL KILMER NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON There's something missing in all this new new media craziness, and that is something that uses c... JESSICA WILLIAMS I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I would be on the 'anti-reality' show. I can't stand reality TV. I can tell you one that... ERIC CHURCH NATALIE MASSENET RUPERT GRAVES SELENA GOMEZ JESSE MCCARTNEY
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If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I wou... RICK YANCEY Is this how humanity waves good-bye?RICK YANCEY Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of commun... RICK YANCEY How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. RICK YANCEY You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your li... RICK YANCEY And, for one– ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and... RICK YANCEY But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the s... RICK YANCEY And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield. RICK YANCEY He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background... RICK YANCEY We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel bra... RICK YANCEY They were afraid the longer we pretended to be human, the more human we would become.”RICK YANCEY My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After tha... RICK YANCEY Some things down to the smallest of things, are worth the sum of all things RICK YANCEY Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forge... RICK YANCEY Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end ... RICK YANCEY Seems like (when) Ian (Viola) gets out of that first inning - he's been pitching real well. WAYNE YANCEY Like many businesses in the community, the Home Depot maintains a policy of non-solicitation at its ... YANCEY CASEY There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; an... RICK YANCEY He looked at me and smiled reassuringly and said, "Everything is going to be okay," because that's w... 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RICK YANCEY When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me. RICK YANCEY It's an either/or world now. RICK YANCEY In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME. RICK YANCEY After another half second, he's locked me in a bear hug, crushing me into his chest and lifting my f... RICK YANCEY I took one look at it and demanded that he name three things he isn't good at.RICK YANCEY I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear fr... RICK YANCEY I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insign... RICK YANCEY I didn't save you," he whispers, lips tickling my eyelashes. "You saved me. RICK YANCEY What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer! RICK YANCEY I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real... RICK YANCEY Because we will die, but at least we will die unbroken. RICK YANCEY There's an old saying about the truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the ... RICK YANCEY I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for t... RICK YANCEY You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If eve... RICK YANCEY That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear. RICK YANCEY I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find som... RICK YANCEY Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit. RICK YANCEY My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book... RICK YANCEY Everything's going to be okay', because that's what I wanted him to say and it's what he wanted to s... RICK YANCEY When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cas... RICK YANCEY They made a major mistake," he blurted out, "the dumb bastards, when they didn't start by killing yo... RICK YANCEY Beyond their immaculate design, the reason sharks rule the ocean is their complete indifference to e... RICK YANCEY To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is... RICK YANCEY Some things you don't have to promise. You just do. RICK YANCEY When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails. RICK YANCEY Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral th... RICK YANCEY No one will remember us, out footprints erased, our legacies wiped out, our children and their child... RICK YANCEY I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to g... RICK YANCEY We have a lot of distractions that come with homecoming week. Sylacauga got their first win the othe... FRED YANCEY We knew we had to contain Thompson's quarterback. They gave us a great effort defensively. FRED YANCEY This was a big win for us. I thought our kids did a great job playing wire-to-wire and working their... FRED YANCEY A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear... RICK YANCEY I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We hav... RICK YANCEY People die. Love endures. RICK YANCEY And I open to him, a flower to the rain. RICK YANCEY You know how we tell the good guys from the bad guys? The bad guys shoot at us."RICK YANCEY I want to learn from them. I want to do what I can to make a difference. JANAY YANCEY I think that will be amazing. It's always been a dream of mine to play big time volleyball. JANAY YANCEY I love the fact that they have a new coach. We just clicked automatically. (Coach Stubbs) was a frie... JANAY YANCEY It's great. I set a goal for myself and I reached it. Now I've got to set a new one and keep on goin... JANAY YANCEY I chose the school that I though would be best for me. There were a lot of different things between ... JANAY YANCEY But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Fallin... RICK YANCEY Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end. RICK YANCEY The night wears on; the fire dwindles; the wind shifts and my heart aches with nostalgia - summer ca... RICK YANCEY Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under... RICK YANCEY Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn'... RICK YANCEY That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans,... RICK YANCEY We're looking forward to getting to the championship game, but our thoughts will be about winning (t... WAYNE YANCEY You've got to give Carl Junction a lot of credit. They came out and kept getting after us. YANCEY LITTLE Our hearts, the war.RICK YANCEY There is a light that glimmers along the darkening edge of an infinite horizon. In that light the he... RICK YANCEY Are pervs only pervs if you don't find them attractive? RICK YANCEY She's hurt and still imagines I'd worry about him for even a second ? I touch her shoulder. Her touc... RICK YANCEY If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second? RICK YANCEY Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer. PHILIP TREACY Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them. PHILIP TREACY PHILIP GREEN PHILIP GREEN PHILIP GREEN PHILIP GREEN PHILIP GREEN PHILIP GREEN PHILIP SIDNEY PHILIP GREEN Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own. 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The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands u... 
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... 
[photographers shouted,] It's nobody, ... Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan could learn a lesson or two... 
I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on 'Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen', but you... 
Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the ... 
I do talk about celebrity relationships like Kim Kardashian's. I like to find the humor in love. 
I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... 
Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing ha... 
When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Hu... 
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. 
The Republican National Convention is a great place to hear people talk about politics and values an... 
I just don't like when there's a rumor that says I'm dating someone who is below my stan... 
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. 
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. 
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. 
I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Star... 
The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing... 
You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity... 
I'm definitely of the 'less is more' mentality, and what I really appreciate is that fra... 
When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choo... 
I think that there's the Kim Kardashian brand and the Kardashian brand. I think they blend toget... 
You may fall down when you dance on the edge but edge is the source of all miracles and mystery. 
I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news j... 
There's a great club in London called The Secret Sundays, and it's on a Sunday afternoon and... 
What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American ... 
So if you're on the motorcycle, on the track you're not thinking at all about what's hap... 
I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about th... 
I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation ... 
I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to &... 
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What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it i... 
When you're out dancing with your friends, you think you're cool. But then you get in the ba... 
I think about death all the time. I think that's a good thing because we're all going to die... 
We can argue about major championships and whether Tiger will ever surpass Jack's 18 majors, but... 
The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a caf... 
I auditioned for a movie recently, and when I went in, the producer said he'd told one of its st... 
I don't have a Kate Moss body, but I'm very proud and happy with mine. 
I don't think it's about playing and singing, to be honest. That seems like old news, you kn... 
I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smell... 
I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, the... 
We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth... 
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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One ... 
Celebrity's a pain in the backside - you're always on display. 
I don't like the whole off-and-on thing. I don't like 'taking a break.' Either you&#... 
When you're a 'product' for a lot of people, they're only really after one thing, an... 
To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God ... 
I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis&... 
I'm in the retail business, not the circus business. 
You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds ... 
Either I will find a way, or I will make one. 
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. 
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v... 
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi... 
Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species... 
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion 
All this, and Heaven too!