I go to Stanford, and I'm an economics major, not thinking I'm going to do anything with acting. A professor came to the dorm where I lived looking for people to audition for an August Wilson play, 'Joe Turner's Come And Gone.' I gave it a shot, got one of the lead roles in the play.
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ERIC LINDROS Things come in waves, and I'm always more interested in places like, for instance, Chicago, wher... MIKE NICHOLS I realized I'm not the kind of person who wants to go with the flow and fit in. I'm an agita... ALEXIS ARQUETTE I'm not head-strong, and I'm not egotistical. I understand certain things better now. I won&... ERIC DAVIS If I get an opportunity to play for a championship team, I'm going to go hunting for that. I hav... RICHARD JEFFERSON When I'm playing the 1-guard, I'm kind of seeing everything that's going on. When I play... KYRIE IRVING I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to ca... ZACH JOHNSON I'm not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I'm looking for my daughter,... ALESSANDRA AMBROSIO I'm not a person who naturally loves to wake up in the morning and go 'Yeah, I'm going t... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do r... NORM MACDONALD In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to ... BILL SKARSGARD I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I... RYAN GOSLING Once I've ascertained that I'm safe and I'm with a director who is taking care of me, th... JULIANNE MOORE I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a ma... DUFF GOLDMAN My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to ... ISSA RAE The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I e... VANESSA FERLITO I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I'... BETTY FIELD I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm suppose... EDDIE MURPHY I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition. SARAH SNOOK I think, for the first time, people are starting to say, 'That's Sterling K. Brown,' whi... STERLING K. BROWN I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very... JOHN POLSON I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for i... MAE WHITMAN I'm not a big shopper. I'm a pretty simple dresser, and that's not my pleasure go-to thi... PAUL DANO I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Ca... RONALD D. MOORE There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked... NAT WOLFF I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense ... WILLEM DAFOE Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When... RICK RUBIN The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am wha... ELIZABETH WARREN I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivate... GARRETT HEDLUND I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition. TAMALA JONES I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting, I take to the pen, and I write something I ... LAKE BELL Acting feels different. I'm not sure exactly what that is, but it used to mean a lot more. Maybe... MEL GIBSON I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacifi... RAMI MALEK I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obs... WILLIAM GIBSON I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'... TAISSA FARMIGA One of the defense mechanisms I have for the difficulties in the business, one of which is rejection... BRUCE MCGILL I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not tryi... STEVEN WRIGHT For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say... RONDA ROUSEY It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American ... YUL VAZQUEZ I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking... ELLEN BARKIN I definitely see myself continuing to transition into more acting roles. I'll always be a coach.... RANDY COUTURE I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated agains... JACK ANTONOFF I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor. ADAM DRIVER I've talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical ... TOM HANKS
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STERLING HAYDEN A prison becomes a home when you have the key. GEORGE STERLING O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless... GEORGE STERLING What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep! (“The Testimon... GEORGE STERLING She smiled and her whole face lit up. Or maybe it was mine. All I know for certain is that smile lit... J. STERLING Someday the Sun will explode, and what about our journalism and poetry then? Well, so what? To hell ... BRUCE STERLING If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with ... BRUCE STERLING Her gaze did not leave her burning groom, nor did her mind abandon the fact that he was not consumed... ELIZABETH STERLING And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe fo... GEORGE STERLING There's this whole new grammar Twitter skill set that I do not possess. I'm not a very good ... 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BRUCE STERLING Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to sta... BRUCE STERLING Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if ... BRUCE STERLING You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursue... BRUCE STERLING If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world,... BRUCE STERLING I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experi... BRUCE STERLING I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex. BRUCE STERLING Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music. BRUCE STERLING We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with... BRUCE STERLING I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ... BRUCE STERLING I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better med... BRUCE STERLING I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was... BRUCE STERLING One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing. BRUCE STERLING The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for variou... BRUCE STERLING Sometimes letting go is the only way to find out who you're meant to hold on to. J. STERLING Now, for the first time, the President began to look genuinely powerful, even dangerous. This was a ... BRUCE STERLING Take away America's money, and you've got a country of tribes. BRUCE STERLING You're something, alright." I laughed into his bare chest, my eyes closing. "I'm your something..." ... J. STERLING The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them... BRUCE STERLING «Brixie wasn’t talking to him, or listening to him. Nothing like that at all. Brixie was off in h... BRUCE STERLING «“Everybody is in trouble with my dad. My dad only sort of gets the Internet. My dad started look... BRUCE STERLING «She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases th... BRUCE STERLING «Once, I went to this little meeting of Microsoft kids. Like, this high-school trip thing, but it w... BRUCE STERLING I like them because they had some success last year. They beat Kansas in the first round last year. LEE STERLING We were all sitting around at the staging area and talking to the boys from Springhill, La. We were ... RONNIE STERLING They were bumping into each other all the time. ROBERT STERLING Sometimes life gets ugly before it gets beautiful J. STERLING A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what. K All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination. K. FORD K. Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and o... JULIUS STERLING MORTON The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, an... JULIUS STERLING MORTON Of all the tyrants the world affords,
Our own affections are the fiercest lords. EARL OF STERLING Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes fo... JULIUS STERLING MORTON When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I wen... K. FLAY My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization. K. FLAY I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much ... K. FLAY A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure. K. FLAY I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a... K. FLAY Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuse... K. FLAY Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiske... K. FLAY I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost... K. FLAY My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of s... K. FLAY I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice. K. FLAY I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present... K. FLAY The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or... K. FLAY