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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, ... TROMBONE SHORTY I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who real... OLIVIA HOLT These mods made significant improvements to the cars β enough so that I changed my mind (another p... CHRISTINA ENGELA The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in... AND CITY Desperate Housewives. AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it. AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-... AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte... AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana. JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight, JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent, JILL AND What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b... STEPHEN R. COVEY When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t... GARY F EVANS... I was a bachelor for a long time, and I got into all these really lazy habits work-wise. I'd jus... LENNY ABRAHAMSON I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me t... JEFFREY R. IMMELT Growing up, I went to the Warped Tour a lot, and I got to see bands like Rancid and AFI and Dropkick... ANDY BIERSACK Between earth and heaven, this woman must be the most evil and the most hated person ever, yet betwe... FENG NONG Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed ... YELAWOLF So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the w... NICOLAUS COPERNICUS I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit ... JAMES BADGE DALE When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg ... MARY ROACH A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and ... HALIMA ADEN I'm not someone that wants to control everything. I like to work with people that bring their ta... MONICA BELLUCCI I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your ca... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA I was lucky. My grandmother stepped up for me and said she would take responsibility for me and a co... BOB BEAMON I got my green card and everything through my work, even before marriage or anything like that, so y... CAMILA ALVES The wrong decision in this case could be a fatal one. GARY GAMBARDELLA The people who did most of the crimes when I was growing up weren't really into sports. I got around... CHARLES ROBERSON I was a bit of an introvert growing up, and I tended to do better in math and science at school, so ... KEAHU KAHUANUI Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that peo... T. C. BOYLE I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be r... KURT FULLER All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work. DAVE GROHL I feel very honored that I got a chance to work with Maya Angelou and Oprah Winfrey. STANLEY CLARKE I was happy that guys got a chance to play. I think that's an opportunity for those guys who work re... BILL EVANS God knows Everyone. God knows Everything. God knows everything about everyone. APURVA GAGLANI Everything is 5 elements. Everyone is only One. There is no Second. So God knows Everything. And God... APURVA GAGLANI I was disappointed in the loss last week. I felt like I didn't play as hard as I could have, and tha... AMBER HAWKINS I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really ... AL JARREAU I'm in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I lov... JOSH HOMME I believe that all men and women will be saved. PAT BUCKLEY I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And though I had misgiving--obvious ones, too--one overwhelming thing drove me on: on the borderland... PETER GEYE Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. . . . It was my idea to mak... FRANK SINATRA The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my v... FRANK SINATRA I firmly believe in Mick Cronin as a coach and as a person. Our comfort level is really strong. That... DARREN SAVINO The heinous nature of the crime. The cover-up afterwards. The denial. They were all, to me, earmarks... GARY GAMBARDELLA It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was ... TIG NOTARO They had too many classical piano players. I didn't have their chops. I couldn't keep up with them. ... GEORGE DUKE From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing u... KATHLEEN BATTLE I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Frank... ANDRA DAY I obviously made a mistake, and I'm going to do everything I can to admit that and deal with it and ... ED GORDON I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars.... When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school... 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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I've got more of a chance of getting work over there and that's all I want to do. I don't care about... IAN ROBERTS I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never l... MAGDA APANOWICZ When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to ... TOM FORD I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interac... YVONNE CRAIG I got really, really sick with a spinal infection that put me in a hospital for a couple of months, ... ROBERT HUNTER When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI I use to stand up for what I believe, now, I believe in what I stand up for. MARIE-SUZANNE LABELLE (A.K.A MARIE-SUE) I was influenced by many, many different people in my student years, and I was always, I guess, imme... ALAN G. POINDEXTER It's really cool to be able to do both. I get a chance to be in this film with these amazing act... MAIKA MONROE I was really young when I swam at Ridgewood. I don't remember much besides that I was a little kid w... MATT DIEHL People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point wh... BRUCE HORNSBY I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just ... MATT MCGORRY Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king. JOSEPHINE HULL Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a... MALLORY JANSEN It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it... IAN MCDIARMID My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, wa... DREE HEMINGWAY Growing up, I had an internal struggle with my body because I was really chubby. My sisters were you... CHRISTINA MILIAN People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the poin... BRUCE HORNSBY Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do o... DUNCAN JONES I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he ha... CHRIS ISAAK If you have no interest without self-interest, you are doing your work, your job. If you have intere... APURVA GAGLANI Life is like a seesaw you can be up hi one minute then before you know it you can be down low the ne... GARY F EVANS... I'm not really doing anything different this time around but I am really growing up, as a person and... BRITNEY SPEARS I get so sad that sad gets to be. So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so... TEGAN QUIN I like working with him. We have a really good working relationship. It's even better now than it wa... DALE EARNHARDT When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially... EDDIE VAN HALEN When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical natur... TIM BURTON Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had th... GERRY COONEY With everything going on in my life β going on in my head β I wanted to talk with you. Really ta... JAY ASHER I was just a kid growing up in Jamaica with dreams, and I want people to know that itβs possible t... KAMILAH TAYLOR
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