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DAVE LOMBARDO I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happe... JOE ROGAN The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many p... KAREN GILLAN Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out o... IAN MCSHANE Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever,... EDDIE MARSAN My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.... BILL PAXTON When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to st... THOMAS PAINE If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in ... EDDIE REDMAYNE They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandi... FRANK MCCOURT This is the kind of thing the program was set up to facilitate. Go forward and create those jobs, be... CHUCK SCHALLIOL People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. ... MITCHEL MUSSO Blair pitched a great game. It's tough going against him twice early in the season because of the wa... TIM THOMPSON When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion p... RICHARD ROUNDTREE The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was alw... JUSTIN VERNON Growing up as a young kid, I was in a restaurant. So, you know, I always had a very good understandi... GRANT ACHATZ Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press c... MARGOT KIDDER In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start sh... BEN WHISHAW We hit that one earlier in the season for a touchdown and we had it set up for this game. I knew it ... ANTWAAN RANDLE I couldn't find anyone and he was visiting on set so I asked him to go change. He was okay with it b... PETER CHAN I was only 16 when I was selected for 'Madrasapattinam.' I celebrated my 17th birthday on th... AMY JACKSON A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when... CHRIS HADFIELD The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the we... ED BALLS When I chose to do 'Carrie,' I never had done anything on camera before. I was always onstag... ANSEL ELGORT I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all ... WALTER KIRN We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of ... LESLIE MOONVES The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think... HARRISON FORD I was used to getting changed in pub toilets before going on set. Then suddenly I had studios in L.A... HARRY TREADAWAY It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, w... ALVIN LEE It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! ... WARWICK DAVIS I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was ... ISABELLE HUPPERT The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. 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MICHAEL FOSSEL I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ... KAJAL AGGARWAL I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or ... JONATHAN BRANDIS With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was don... ALEX WINTER The entire thing was crazy. I wasn't even going to go on the trip because we had to get up every mor... DAVE BARTH I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously... ERIC CLAPTON I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor c... JACK REYNOR Part of the reason we've been successful is because there are certain standards of how we're going t... CHRIS CAPUTO I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love... STEPHEN DALDRY I was concerned about Ecclesiastic getting away, it looked like he had an easy lead. When I asked my... EIBAR COA We had thought it was all set up and ready to go. JACCI JAHNKE There's something magical about film, it's the ultimate for me, because it's kind of per... PAUL MERTON
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One cannot love a reserved person. JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab... JANE AUSTEN Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itsel... JANE ADDAMS One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. JANE AUSTEN It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co... JANE AUSTEN It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s... JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o... JANE AUSTEN The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and... JANE ADDAMS One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. JANE AUSTEN One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth... JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied. JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. JANE AUSTEN I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. JANE AUSTEN Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o... JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. JANE AUSTEN With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. JANE AUSTEN There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be... JANE AUSTEN