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When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.


Armistead Maupin

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, (MAYBE) Whenever I'm on a book tour, one of the questions I always get asked is what to wear to various ...
NINA GARCIA For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things t...
TAD WILLIAMS Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get pe...
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA I try to get it in there when I can, ... When they come back from Hawaii, maybe they'll swing throug...
DEAN YOUNG I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader ...
EVAN PETERS I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and ...
JACQUELINE WOODSON When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.
HOLLY NEAR I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.
RUSSELL WESTBROOK I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind ...
KATY PERRY I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I k...
VICTORIA LEGRAND I'm not brave, I'm not fantastic. I'm like any other woman. I'm unhappy. I'm dif...
SONIA RYKIEL I do play drums when I'm on tour.
NORMAN WISDOM Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mental...
ODELL BECKHAM, JR. Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I...
CATHERINE BELL I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
VINCE NEIL When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. H...
CRAIG FERGUSON When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
GAIL TSUKIYAMA I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three p...
NIKKI GIOVANNI The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab...
GARY VAYNERCHUK I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the...
MARTIN LAWRENCE Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In cas...
ANNA CHLUMSKY When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you g...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a boo...
MARILYN HACKER I'm more lost when I'm not on tour. I'm in a bit of a muddle at nine o'clock - '...
RONNIE WOOD I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be comin...
BURT WARD When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give di...
ANNE M. MULCAHY I've never owned a VW before but now I am going to. I hope to get Herbie when he comes back from tou...
ANGELA ROBINSON I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tou...
AZIZ ANSARI I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When...
GABRIELLE UNION When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next...
DOLLY PARTON I'm actually at home when I'm not on tour, and I have a lot of downtime.
AUSTIN CARLILE I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and...
MITCH HEDBERG I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicki...
COREY HAIM I wish I could see you some day,
Just for a moment, just see you,

I wish I could h...
RATISH EDWARDS Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ev...
ADAM SANDLER I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, ...
NATALIE WOOD Did she? Oh good, maybe Kelley and I should hook up, eh?
STEVE GOULD I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or...
MR. T I'm one of those people who think I can learn something from everybody.
DAVID OTUNGA My first acquaintance with 'Peter Pan' was back when I lived in South London. I was at art s...
ROGER REES I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from the...
ARMIE HAMMER Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.
DIANA RIGG I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seem...
MARA WILSON I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to k...
ANNE M. MULCAHY I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the begin...
ADAM DEVINE When I first started experimenting with harmonics, I'd sometimes hook up two distortion boxes ju...
DIMEBAG DARRELL All I can do is try to be a difference-maker once I do get back out there, ... Maybe I can free up a...
DARWIN WALKER We needed this (to lose) to get ready for districts. Maybe we can learn from it.
DEBBIE SPRANGER I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour a...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.
KARIN SLAUGHTER And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone...
DAVID BOWIE I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, beca...
NATE RUESS I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I&...
DAN WHELDON I tell myself, 'If I can wake up each day and be excited about what I'm doing, then I must b...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book read...
RYAN REYNOLDS I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm ...
KESHA Maybe when I'm not playing well I can get sick of golf. But then I get back into it again.
EVAN NEEDHAM I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on loca...
BAILEE MADISON A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll b...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'...
DAVID MARANISS I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I l...
IRIS APFEL For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes jus...
JAMI ATTENBERG 'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened t...
ANDREW GROSS I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating mys...
CARRIE ANN INABA When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them,...
SHARON DRAPER I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a pr...
WANDA SYKES I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
ED WESTWICK When I get to 40, I'm going to re-evaluate everything and then go from there. Because when I get...
JASON DAY In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,'...
HOLLY HUNTER 'Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousne...
NEIL POSTMAN I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught u...
HEIDI MONTAG Certainly, whatever I learn while I'm out solo, I bring back to Fleetwood Mac.
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
RICHARD RUSSO When I'm plotting out a book, I use a storyboard - I'll have maybe three lines across on the...
JANET EVANOVICH The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don't need jackhammers and atom bomb ...
ANON. I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting.
SAOIRSE RONAN Besides Slayer, which is a full-time job, I raise animals. I have a ranch in Texas. My wife takes ca...
TOM ARAYA My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'...
JEREMY ABBOTT The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know ...
LINUS TORVALDS Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want ...
DAVID LEE ROTH I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego t...
MICHAEL HUTCHENCE Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideli...
RICK REILLY When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back ho...
BLAKE SHELTON The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really tal...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I...
TODD SOLONDZ I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense ...
WILLEM DAFOE When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if...
KATHERINE BOO I only hope we can learn from this game and get better.
RICH BROOKS When I'm out, maybe I'm looking at the fried chicken, but I know I need to order the grilled...
ADRIAN PETERSON Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out ...
TANA FRENCH I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
KAT EDMONSON I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get acros...
EMERIL LAGASSE I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm...
BRITNEY SPEARS I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.
WALTER ALSTON When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sur...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES It's our hook to get people in, and hopefully they will learn something about this man.
CHRIS TAYLOR I'm not Charlie Chaplin and will never, ever claim to be. But when I become the 'Tramp,'...
ROB MCCLURE I once came back from a book tour where sleek black cars driven by nice men in black suits waited fo...
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