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MAMIE GUMMER CARRE OTIS 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 God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day. KATHIE LEE GIFFORD ADAM CAROLLA I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was ... ELIZABETH PENA SAMMY HAGAR Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk someti... ANDREA CORR WHIT STILLMAN 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 MATT DAMON I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't kno... BONNIE MCKEE DAVID EDWARDS We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our t... JOHN SLADEK If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life. ELIE SAAB I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the serie... NATHALIE EMMANUEL I walked out of... was it 'Stardust?' That thing with the witches? I was so looking forward ... SHARLTO COPLEY CAROL BURNETT LEONARD COHEN I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration b... MICHAEL FOREMAN When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I di... EMMANUELLE SEIGNER ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF ANTHONY HOPKINS CHRIS ROCK I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books... PATRICIA POLACCO I feel like I hadn't given that many classic films, like, a really good chance. I watched 'C... MIRANDA COSGROVE I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come fro... MEGYN KELLY CHAKA KHAN I spent money, and I kept thinking, 'I get one more movie and I'll wipe these bills out,'... SINBAD There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy ov... AL YANKOVIC I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies. CAROLE BOUQUET There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My... TAMARA TUNIE When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn'... FAITH FORD There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing. MANUTE BOL I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would p... CHRIS STAPLETON When I won my way to the international science fair, I didn't want to embarrass myself. It was t... CHARLES M. BLOW When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar... FAITH EVANS JHUMPA LAHIRI RODDY DOYLE ZOSIA MAMET AMY TAN I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously... 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When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.... LINDA SUE PARK What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - a... LINDA SUE PARK After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a c... LINDA SUE PARK With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, ... LINDA SUE PARK Foxes were dreaded animals. They were not large or fierce, like the bears and tigers that roamed the... LINDA SUE PARK A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive ... LINDA SUE PARK I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues o... LINDA SUE PARK How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be important?LINDA SUE PARK Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love L... RANDALL PARK 'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's ju... RANDALL PARK I'm on Twitter, but I'm not super active. I follow a lot of the same people that a lot of pe... RANDALL PARK The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it... RANDALL PARK My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds o... RANDALL PARK I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stu... RANDALL PARK My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea. RANDALL PARK I've been reading a lot about North Korea ever since I got the part in 'The Interview' b... RANDALL PARK I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV. RANDALL PARK As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a... RANDALL PARK I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do ... RANDALL PARK I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life. RANDALL PARK I think I'm really good at forgetting about golf when I'm off the golf course. INBEE PARK The first win came very quick, and I didn't know what it meant to win a major championship. I wa... INBEE PARK I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments... INBEE PARK I just love playing in major championships. INBEE PARK I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face. INBEE PARK There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players. INBEE PARK I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tourn... INBEE PARK Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy. INBEE PARK Sometimes, all the interviews, those are the toughest thing for me, but once you really start to do ... INBEE PARK When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course. INBEE PARK Outside the golf course, I feel the pressure, and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on the ... INBEE PARK Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been ... INBEE PARK I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'l... INBEE PARK As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something ... INBEE PARK This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that'... INBEE PARK I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course... INBEE PARK Whenever I'd go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he's aski... INBEE PARK The martial arts that I got into was because of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because of all of the ani... RAY PARK I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c... BARBARA PARK My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ... BARBARA PARK My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de... BARBARA PARK I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful. BARBARA PARK My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to... BARBARA PARK I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron. 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For me, that's a dream job. BARBARA PARK All of my characters are less than perfect. BARBARA PARK There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of... BARBARA PARK JESSICA PARK Beauty and grace command the world. PARK BENJAMIN ...your mom calls you up every other day to beg you to get a real job so she can hold her head up a... JOYCE PARK TODD PARK TODD PARK TODD PARK NICK PARK NICK PARK He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one... RUTH PARK It's a bold statement. The color (orange) is bold. You've got to be more than the words on the sign. ANDREA PARK It's a privilege to be asked to serve people. We've been in the community 80 years, and we're here t... ANDREA PARK We're never getting enough funding, never. You can never get enough money. ANDREA PARK I would probably say we served well over 4,000 families last year. ANDREA PARK Not telling them what to think. They can think very well on their own. ANDREA PARK It is an honor to go to the same school as him. ANDREW PARK It is great that I can go to a place where I can walk on the same ground of somebody that defended o... ANDREW PARK [The last time they saw each other face-to-face was June, before Evans left for Iraq. One of the las... ANDREW PARK We don't really worry about being called a religious ensemble, ANDREW PARK Bread and Puppet Theater got their start protesting the Vietnam War and have ever since been perform... ANDREW PARK I never wanted fame, of all things, and I'm not just being cheeky. There are benefits that come ... GRACE PARK JESSICA PARK TODD PARK Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I a... RAY PARK NICK PARK NICK PARK NICK PARK How sweet to move at summer's eve
By Clyde's meandering stream,
When Sol in joy is seen to lea... ANDREW PARK It's easier to runLINKIN PARK When I played Darth Maul, it sort of came from inside. I'm not saying it was natural, but I real... RAY PARK I've said that I would play anything to do with 'Star Wars.' But really, deep down, I wo... RAY PARK I think it's no coincidence that people who are good at writing far-out fiction are also good at... PAUL PARK TODD PARK TODD PARK TODD PARK Nigh to a grave that was newly made,
Leaned a sexton old on his earth-worn spade. PARK BENJAMIN Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray,
Like the divining rods of Magi old,
Where pre... PARK BENJAMIN There's going to have to be a retrial. This was clearly at some level important testimony. The safes... TAI PARK I never, ever, ever write with a red pen -- red signifies losses, ... I also keep my desk completely... JAMES PARK Habitat for Humanity International has launched a three-phase recovery program called Operation Home... CHARLIE PARK NICK PARK NICK PARK There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives pu... GRACE PARK I was not too happy with the bogey but these things happen. It's only my third bogey of the week. I'... DAVID PARK I don't feel typecast almost at all, and it could just be because I'm insensitive, but I dou... GRACE PARK NICK PARK Since the summer, Markko has been happier at the wheel of the 307 WRC and the engineers at Peugeot S... MICHAEL PARK NICK PARK Before I got into acting, I was always interested in psychology, which I think is very common with a... MEGAN PARK We won't know the extent of the damage until after the crops are harvested. JOHN PARK Production, exports and consumption clearly began to perk up since November last year. PARK SEUNG TODD PARK TODD PARK My gun trainer on the first 'G.I. Joe' gave me about a week of commando training, so I got t... RAY PARK In the beginning, the only benefit it really had was the right to upgrade. But since [Microsoft] has... ALVIN PARK Microsoft is making Windows Enterprise an entitlement of Software Assurance, and before you could bu... ALVIN PARK It will force other vendor to rethink their licensing strategies and over time will cause them to ma... ALVIN PARK NICK PARK NICK PARK NICK PARK We were confident from the outset that this terrific collection would produce phenomenal results at ... DAVID PARK NICK PARK NICK PARK NICK PARK TODD PARK This is not the first such patent to be granted, but it shows that patent examiners are being duped ... ROBERT PARK NICK PARK I kept telling myself it's never too late to start playing well. I'm glad I'm turning it around. GRACE PARK NICK PARK I'm feeling good, ... For the last month or so I've been working very hard. I kept telling myself it... GRACE PARK People who eat high fiber tend to have a healthier lifestyle and a more healthy diet. Those things t... YIKYUNG PARK With all the rain we had overnight, the greens were definitely softer, slower. But still rolling ver... GRACE PARK NICK PARK I thought you could build a story that would function as a machine or else a complex of machines, ea... PAUL PARK NICK PARK Even those who never frown eventually break down. LINKIN' PARK JESSICA PARK There's a position for everyone. It's a very dynamic sport. There's a misconception that rugby is a ... DOUG PARK I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experie... YEONMI PARK Where is Martha Stewart going to go? TAI PARK At some point in time, Webster Habitat may get involved with the House in a Box program. But for rig... CHARLIE PARK It's still important to eat a high-fiber diet. Even though our study didn't find a reduction for col... YIKYUNG PARK JESSICA PARK I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'Y... GRACE PARK JESSICA PARK She hit it from the side over into the corner. I don't know how she got it in. CHARLIE PARK JESSICA PARK Chamara. What is the word that comes closest to it? Soo-Ja wondered. To stand it, to bear it, to gri... SAMUEL PARK JESSICA PARK JESSICA PARK NICK PARK You need to be feel beautiful on your own before a guy can make you feel beautiful, because it wont ... MEGAN PARK NICK PARK Some of our most productive players are our smaller players. Our more skilled players are our smalle... DOUG PARK TODD PARK TODD PARK It adds some history to a campus and kind of ties together some of the various generations that have... DON PARK I've seen nothing come forward on it. DON PARK We've never had to deal with that, which is a good thing. DON PARK Those really get sticky, and we really approach those very carefully. DON PARK The more support that comes in with one of them, the better opportunity they might be approved. DON PARK They can name whatever they want, whatever they want. DON PARK The university has had to find other creative ways of providing money. DON PARK It kind of gives a character to the campus. DON PARK I'm looking forward to this year and I'm happy and relieved to get the first round out of the way. S... GRACE PARK TODD PARK NICK PARK In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular ev... RUTH PARK But I know just what it feels like to have a voice in the back of my head, like a face that I hold i... LINKIN PARK I'm such a believer in 'if you're beautiful on the inside it really shows on the outside... MEGAN PARK They will also spend some time talking about the social issues. DANIEL PARK Most people have just really been wanting to do something. DANIEL PARK NICK PARK It feels a little nerve-racking, because people expect us to do better this year. We have more to lo... DAVID PARK In the last month, with the warm weather we've had this winter, those prices have lowered a bit, and... DAVID PARK Supply and demand is what drove up the prices. Demand was growing, and supply was staying relatively... DAVID PARK We will take that to the next level and pull together dozens of major open-source projects, and do f... DAVID PARK We only want to go to Round Rock one time, and this is not the week. This was a tough course and we ... DAVID PARK We are committed to investing marketing and training resources to educate the channel on the benefit... DAVID PARK I've tried to play my best every week, but a win, I suppose, would end a long wait. Today I played a... DAVID PARK The defendant needs to be fairly informed of the charges against which he must defend, DAVID PARK I was waiting for this day for the past six weeks, really working hard on my game and getting my str... GRACE PARK I hope I have that momentum going but this course is different from Mission Hills that it's going to... GRACE PARK Going into today's round, I knew I would have to have my 'A' game. She was top class but I'm still p... GRACE PARK I was hitting it far, but I wasn't shooting 65. GRACE PARK I'm very excited to be in the position that I'm in, ... Obviously, I had a sour finish last year but... GRACE PARK I have had a few chances to play with Michelle, ... I think she is a sweet girl. She is a wonderful ... GRACE PARK She brings that much more interest to the game. GRACE PARK JESSICA PARK Really there's no way around it, it's happening and I'd hate to say it, it's probably going to get w... JANA PARK A lot of us are at the computers all day. JANA PARK Fraud on the internet, especially eBay, it's really rampant. JANA PARK When the economic numbers are all skewed in one direction, that brings up the Fed again. JAMES PARK [The October jobs report] is one we're looking at, especially after the claims report today, ... It ... JAMES PARK The numbers were nothing too special, it wasn't the most optimistic reading, ... We're just seeing a... JAMES PARK I just see a lot of listless trading into the end of the summer -- there isn't much conviction, JAMES PARK I think there's a little bit of optimism here today -- you can take one eye off Iraq and start to fo... JAMES PARK The markets should have held on to gains after the jobs report, ... What we're seeing is definitely ... JAMES PARK Everyone was looking for a war that was going to be over very quickly, and it's not appearing that w... JAMES PARK I think we're just buying off weakness, ... A lot of the gains we're seeing are related to index-rel... 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