You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.
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BEN KATCHOR In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force ... JUAN PABLO GALAVIS The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they ar... OREN PELI I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life. LARRY WILCOX You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to... CARINE ROITFELD In the summer, I love to go up north to a cottage and relax by the lake, swim, go canoeing... I also... SARAH GADON I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Don't take anything for granted. If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. Have a ... CATHY MORIARTY I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel p... JACK BLACK I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I... CATHERINE TATE I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don... KABIR BEDI Daredevil was known as 'The Man Without Fear,' and I just thought, 'Well, I don't th... CHARLIE COX The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anythin... NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You k... NANCY REAGAN If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with... GISELE BUNDCHEN I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the co... PATRICK CARNEY Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget. TARAJI P. HENSON I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability ... ANTHONY GOLDBLOOM I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you? 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CARROT TOP You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding. LAURA TROTT I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - persona... TIKA SUMPTER I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don't love yourself, take ... KIMORA LEE SIMMONS My devotion stemmed from my mom's love of horses. I have been riding since I could walk, and the... BELLA HADID I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm... BO BURNHAM I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It... CHRIS COOPER I don't know if I would've had the opportunity to be on 'Wizards of Waverly Place' i... SELENA GOMEZ I've had so many letters from people saying I've inspired them to take up riding, and that... CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don... BROOKE SMITH I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether i... DAN FOGLER One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It'... DANIEL WOODRELL Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You... DEBORAH MAILMAN I have never been offended. I don't know what it means. It's not that I disagree with it. I ... MILO YIANNOPOULOS Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than... CARL WILSON It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I f... EDIE CAMPBELL I think people who don't work don't really have interesting and meaningful lives. More than ... JAMIE JOHNSON Riding uses so many different muscles. I ride two to three horses a day, and I ride almost every day... CHARLOTTE CASIRAGHI I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste o... ELMORE LEONARD I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It'... LARRY THE CABLE GUY I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the ... PALOMA PICASSO I know what the median age is here, and I'm certain I'm on the other side of that. But I'm still ver... IAN MILLER It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a... CAREY MULLIGAN Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that... KALEY CUOCO Give up as much as you're willing to receive back and give yourself, if that makes any sense. Wh... EMAYATZY CORINEALDI There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you kn... ELON MUSK You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I... PAUL WELLER A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You ca... JAKE ROBERTS I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu... ALAN BENNETT If something's gonna make you happy, and you know it's gonna make you happy, and it's wh... BRETT YOUNG The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to sta... A. R. RAHMAN I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very ... ANDREW LINCOLN Don't buy this 'believe in yourself' rubbish. Why do they keep telling youngsters that? ... STEVE WINWOOD If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forg... JENNIFER LOPEZ Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but... ALLISON WILLIAMS I'm scared of horses, and I don't know how to shoot them, but that's what excites me. Af... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like... PATRICK FUGIT I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't k... EMINEM I don't have Facebook; I don't have Twitter. I don't have anything because, believe it o... WISSAM AL MANA Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I al... CRISTIN MILIOTI I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don... CATHERINE ZETA-JONES If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don&... BARRY O'FARRELL When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. ... GAD ELMALEH I've had every chemo in the alphabet, most of them more than once. Some of them that aren't ... 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It shouldn't be this hard, and it s... KATE Let's just lay in the grass, and look at the stars, and fall asleep in the middle of counting. KATE Better focus on what seems to be more important, then what make's me feel more alive...
But the thou... KATE Why do people get back in the box ?,
when deep down inside there isn't room enough.
And even though ... KATE Reading between the lines is supposed to lift you up, except when the message reminds you of the mis... KATE Tic tac, tic tac.
Three o clock, it's time to stop,
Thinking about what is not.
Tic tac, tic tac
May... KATE Being confused about you're own insecurity's, when other people turn out to be not what they seem, a... KATE Those little boxes people put you in, while they should try the other sizes... KATE Sometimes I forget how it feels to meet new people who are passionate about the same things.
But whe... KATE Glistening grains of sand, so soft and warm
being sleepless in the desert has it's charm.
A billion ... KATE Is it okay to lose you'reself once in a while.....
Maybe I am lost longer then I think.... KATE They won't chase me wen I walk away. Not worth chasing I gues,... so I'll just keep on walking alone... KATE No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.......
Now I know what I did wrong all the ti... KATE Don't approach someone with false intensions, especcialy when they are not good enough. Because ther... KATE My sore throath can't find my voice anywere, and my thought's can't find my sleep. KATE Time is precious....I would love to spend a day how I really want to spend it...or maybe a few.. KATE Back to the corner where you came from, and dim that little light, before it finally discover's how ... KATE I tried to stop the morning coming in so fast
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but it looks like I have to settle for less again. KATE You can listen to a song a thousand times, and then, suddenly, the lyrics kick in,.... like someone ... KATE If water would be running up,
would it wash away the spots,
underneath the places, where we usually ... KATE No one knows that a simple and calculated decision for the one with potential, is the final end of t... KATE Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up. LAUREN KATE With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and... KATE FORSYTH I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like... KATE MOSS Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All... KATE MIDDLETON I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister. KATE MIDDLETON I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no ... KATE KLISE Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doi... KATE ATKINSON So the storm passed and every one was happy. KATE CHOPIN Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex... KATE GRENVILLE I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy st... KATE WINSLET Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't tu... KATE WINSLET Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils tha... KATE WINSLET I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman. KATE WINSLET I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.' KATE WINSLET Life is short, and it is here to be lived. KATE WINSLET I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's... KATE WINSLET Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother... KATE WINSLET I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and d... KATE WINSLET I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to... KATE WINSLET Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes. KATE WINSLET Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go. KATE WINSLET Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to... KATE WINSLET You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things. KATE WINSLET What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life... KATE WINSLET I do have impossibly high standards. KATE WINSLET Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all ... KATE WINSLET Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated. KATE WINSLET It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth. KATE WINSLET The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow. KATE WINSLET British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, ho... KATE WILLIAMS People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureh... KATE WILLIAMS When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box... KATE WILLIAMS I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors. KATE WILLIAMS One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think... KATE WILLIAMS I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it'... KATE WILLIAMS Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for the... KATE WILLIAMS I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women... KATE WILLIAMS The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and fri... KATE WILLIAMS Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history... KATE WILLIAMS I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting his... KATE WILLIAMS Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of oth... KATE WILLIAMS The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to t... KATE WILLIAMS Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and pa... KATE WILLIAMS I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems tha... 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KATE WALSH I loved campaigning for Obama. KATE WALSH My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back. KATE WALSH I still like to make crank calls. KATE WALSH I would definitely love to be a parent. KATE WALSH No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' g... KATE WALSH There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture. KATE WALSH I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess. KATE WALSH I've done every diet there is. KATE WALSH Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes. KATE WALSH I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try! KATE WALSH You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you. KATE WALSH I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast canc... KATE WALSH I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead. KATE WALSH I'm lucky. 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KATE DICAMILLO I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the chil... KATE DICAMILLO I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay... KATE DICAMILLO I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I w... KATE DICAMILLO I like to think of myself as a storyteller. KATE DICAMILLO I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am s... KATE DICAMILLO I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head. KATE DICAMILLO I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children. KATE DICAMILLO Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense ... KATE DICAMILLO Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as ... 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KATE CHRISTENSEN At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely ... KATE CHRISTENSEN Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality... KATE CHRISTENSEN Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli... KATE CHRISTENSEN I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without makin... KATE CHRISTENSEN Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human bod... KATE CHRISTENSEN My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, w... KATE CHRISTENSEN The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking fo... KATE CHRISTENSEN Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an... KATE CHRISTENSEN It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bo... KATE CHRISTENSEN Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas. KATE CHRISTENSEN On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they... KATE CHRISTENSEN There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather... KATE CHRISTENSEN I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the sk... KATE CHRISTENSEN It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn'... KATE CHRISTENSEN My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Ma... KATE CHRISTENSEN I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply. KATE CHRISTENSEN In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and sti... KATE CHOPIN The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penet... KATE CHOPIN Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of... KATE CHOPIN When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills. KATE CHOPIN But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce... KATE CHOPIN To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac... KATE CHOPIN I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the... KATE CHOPIN A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect ... KATE CHOPIN It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating ... KATE CHOPIN She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the s... KATE CHOPIN There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. KATE CHOPIN It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire s... KATE CHOPIN No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is tha... KATE CAPSHAW