Susan Orlean
Related NIALL HORAN I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they sa... PAUL KANE My logic used to be if I get angry at my boyfriend, he could say, 'Well, if that thing I do that... NIKKI GLASER NICK CAVE DANIEL CRAIG COLIN FIRTH My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it look... KAREN KINGSBURY Worrying about something wastes time and energy that could be used to be proactive. JAIME CONTRERAS When I grew up, my dad always used to watch 'Star Trek' and any and every sci-fi show you co... ERICA CERRA A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't kn... CHARLIE DANIELS I couldn't care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that ... COLIN FARRELL CONOR MCGREGOR I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures s... NAN GOLDIN I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Sa... ANDY SAMBERG YVONNE STRAHOVSKI JACK KEMP JOYCE CAROL OATES SYDNEY POLLACK THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. MALIN AKERMAN MIKE BIRBIGLIA PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR I think probably the first time I wanted to be an artist was when I was about six or seven years old... DAVE GIBBONS I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, ... BERNIE MAC There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my ... BILLY DEE WILLIAMS HALSEY Quite often, people who build big businesses don't believe anyone else can run them, and you end... PETER HARGREAVES I don't have a boyfriend right now. I'm looking for anyone with a job that I don't have ... ANNA NICOLE SMITH ZOSIA MAMET I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I ... PATRICIA MARX KAT GRAHAM Most of us don't think about miracles that we could possibly do. We don't have a vocabulary ... BRUCE WILKINSON ESPERANZA SPALDING No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an... RICHARD MASUR JEREMY IRONS EDDIE MURPHY MIKE MILLS I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in ... E. L. JAMES SHARON STONE I was born in Puerto Rico - I used to sit in the sun until I looked like a piece of bacon. It's ... RITA MORENO I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care. KARINE VANASSE 'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effec... AARON JOHNSON I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what t... GEORGIA MAY JAGGER PENN JILLETTE ABBEY LEE KERSHAW PATCH ADAMS JULIA STILES I don't aspire to be a sex icon, I don't know why anyone would. It's an uncomfortable po... BILLY HOWLE CHUCK BERRY That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you co... MAX BROOKS TOM STOPPARD it never occurred to me that anyone would buy into the notion that Mr. Bush and his supporters would... BOB HERBERT ZOOEY DESCHANEL CHINUA ACHEBE I had no interest in history classes. In fact, I used to sleep in history classes, I used to bunk cl... SHEKHAR KAPUR The food was something I could get used to. It's alright if you like raw fish, but I'm used to eatin... BOB CANDEE BEVERLEY MITCHELL I think it's an unnecessary expense when we are on the (Illinois State Board of Education's) Watch L... TERRI MORRISON MAYIM BIALIK I don't care about the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim isn't involved in anything that I am inter... CHUCK CLOSE BARBARA EHRENREICH LEONARDO DICAPRIO KEVIN NEALON It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about mone... MAGNUS CARLSEN I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don'... PHIL ANSELMO We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So ... JACK HORNER I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challe... MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, ... CLARENCE CLEMONS As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over ho... VALERIE JUNE My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at so... FELICITY KENDAL BRIE LARSON EMMITT SMITH Truth be told, I'm not all that comfortable with celebrity culture. That was always something th... HOZIER ZAHA HADID I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself.... RANDY HARRISON There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up - the rigor, the discoveries, the t... PARDIS SABETI R. KELLY One of the biggest things I used to struggle with was about things like going on holiday. Whereas al... DOUGLAS BOOTH TONY JUDT TENA DESAE They've said everything about me that they could: racist, Marxist, rightist, homophobic, sex cha... MICHAEL CIMINO I don't analyse things, and I don't look back. I can think forward - but only about my famil... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON DALLAS ROBERTS I constantly have anxiety about being the lead of the show. I don't talk about it because it sca... ERICA DURANCE BIBHU MOHAPATRA CHINUA ACHEBE RICHARD DAWKINS ACTION BRONSON I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things muc... B. D. WONG TOMMY CHONG KESHA I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are goin... DOUG DAVIDSON As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be ... FRAN KRANZ I don't think anyone would care about my private life because I don't do anything. I'm a... DANIELLE PANABAKER ALESSIA CARA I don't care who's No. 1 on the call sheet or how big my trailer is. I care about the work. ... MARK HARMON OLLY MURS DAVID EDWARDS I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood.... GARRETT CLAYTON
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