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GREG BEHRENDT You can be a pretty face, but if you're not a nice person, it just doesn't work. I'm not... KATE MOSS It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm... NATHAN FIELDER I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going t... GABRIEL BASSO Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay becau... URSULA BURNS I'm always going to be a Celtic no matter what. It's always going to be in my veins. Once yo... RAY ALLEN If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it ... ANNE WOJCICKI Just because you have kids doesn't mean to say you need time off. I have a lot of time off anywa... KATIE PRICE I think I'm prouder of 'The Victim' than anything else, just because, if nothing else, i... MICHAEL BIEHN I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're ... BENEDICT WONG I'm doing whatever I have to do to help my team win. So, instead of being focused on anything fr... ELENA DELLE DONNE Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I... DANIEL BALDWIN It doesn't matter how much polite self-deprecating fluff you have on the outside if you don'... REBECCA HALL For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm ... USAIN BOLT I'm not a hermit, but I definitely stay in a lot more than I used to. There's more attention... DEREK JETER They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageab... IGGY AZALEA I'm standing behind a wall of jokes. You don't know about my personal life, my girlfriends, ... STEVEN WRIGHT I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn... ED ASNER You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap sta... BRANDON FLOWERS There's not enough time in each day to really focus enough attention on any one thing, but I'... ALEX GUARNASCHELLI I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'... ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the... IDRIS ELBA Acting feels different. I'm not sure exactly what that is, but it used to mean a lot more. Maybe... MEL GIBSON I'm not that big a fan of sampling. But I feel like if I'm going to do it, I'm going to ... KID CUDI You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just beca... HAYDEN PANETTIERE I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone... VIDYA BALAN I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because y... KATHLEEN HANNA There's this ridiculous idea that I'm a gender traitor because I'm not a feminist. I'... LAUREN SOUTHERN I'm kind of like a middle mix between a warrior diet and a Paleo diet, so I only eat once a day ... RONDA ROUSEY I'm not thinking about anything when I'm climbing, which is part of the appeal. I'm focu... ALEX HONNOLD It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, curr... ERIC BURDON I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm t... BILLY PORTER Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be d... BEN STILLER I'm only just learning what language to use when I want my microphone turned down, you know, bec... DUFFY Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I... ZENDAYA I feel like I'm just doing a job. It's amazing to think that you affect other peoples' l... KIP PARDUE Just because you might have a sparring match on the air doesn't mean there's any personal an... MEGYN KELLY For some reason, I think that I'm not doing enough work. People are like, 'You're on a s... ALDIS HODGE Just because I'm in favor of gay rights doesn't mean that I'm gay or doesn't mean I&... SCOTT FUJITA Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people hav... MARIO BALOTELLI I'm basically different things to different people. If it's a guy, I'm-a probably have m... THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. I'm somebody who doesn't work with a stylist. I'll be honest with you, I'm a mom and... BUSY PHILIPPS 'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, eve... ELLEN MUTH Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay,... DYLAN MCDERMOTT I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a cert... PAIGE VANZANT If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's jus... CANDICE SWANEPOEL I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that soun... EMMANUELLE BEART I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a r... J. COLE I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot ... LL COOL J I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and ... LEO BUSCAGLIA That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-h... ALAN VEGA I've accomplished so many things in basketball. I financially secured my kids' life and thei... ALLEN IVERSON I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I a... RACHEL ROY I get a lot of girls who say, 'I just want to be a model so badly.' And I think: 'You ca... CARA DELEVINGNE I do this work, but I am uncomfortable in situations where you're hyped into something you'r... JEREMY IRONS I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; ... DAISY RIDLEY I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watc... ANDY MILONAKIS It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most ot... PATRICK MACNEE I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me. ADAM GARCIA I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are conce... KURT COBAIN I'm not just offensive, I'm very smart about the way that I do it, and that takes a lot of t... ANTHONY JESELNIK I don't need a trailer; I don't need to have the luxuries of what is Hollywood, which is why... VICKY MCCLURE I'm not saying that hip-hop needs gay rappers or anything, but they need to stop being so close-... ASAP ROCKY I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if i... LAURA VANDERVOORT I'm not a perfect person who doesn't mess up, eat bad, not work out - I do all those things.... JESSICA BIEL Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more cri... HUNTER HAYES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it. SAM MENDES I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their thi... ADAM PEATY In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's alwa... J. COLE I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obvio... SACHA BARON COHEN When you know what the male species is looking for - 'I'm not into a redhead,' 'I do... PATTI STANGER
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