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Related I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of... AMY SEDARIS I don't digitally manipulate my images, because I am interested in the spontaneous act of creati... LOIS GREENFIELD I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't li... ZADIE SMITH I would have had an easier life if I were straight, but I would not be me. And I now like being myse... ANDREW SOLOMON If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea. AZZEDINE ALAIA I just turned 40, and I look at so many performers and so many people who are actually always on tim... MAXWELL I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in pr... KEVIN GATES I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in building... WILL OLDHAM I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copi... JOYCE CAROL OATES I've never had much interest in spinoffery - the idea of writing in someone else's universe ... ALASTAIR REYNOLDS I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else. H. G. BISSINGER I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty.... LAUREN BACALL I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need dire... JEREMY LIN I fell in love with this idea of an old school game character, like Donkey Kong, who looks like a ve... RICH MOORE Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch som... VICTORIA OSTEEN I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the d... EMMANUELLE SEIGNER There have been so many times when I'm sitting next to someone, and I have no idea who they are.... RILEY KEOUGH I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designe... GEORGE LOIS I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact... AMBER HEARD I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room servic... DREW BARRYMORE I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot... IRA GLASS But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always ... JENA MALONE I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spen... AARON RODGERS I'm slightly influenced by sport in that I like the idea of trying, like an athlete, to keep abs... COLM TOIBIN I don't even think of it as a strategy. It's me in my element; it's my forte. Me being w... STORMZY I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I li... ROBERT PLANT I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall... GLORIA VANDERBILT I love the entire process of being on the set and being able to create a character. It's so much... SHERRI SHEPHERD I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are t... EDWARD BRYANT Seriously, I don't find not being able to hear an obstacle or a boundary. For me, and for many o... NYLE DIMARCO In this perfect world, there are certain imperfections that catch your eye. That's what works fo... SONAKSHI SINHA My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I ... RAY WILLIAM JOHNSON I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what... GENE SIMMONS This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't ... SHARON STONE To me, it's not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love ... JERRY HALL I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone... ISABEL GILLIES I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madr... MAHESH BABU I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO Anything that would kind of label me or put me into a category is kind of what I want to avoid. I li... JACK KILMER I love my body because it's what I've been given. Being too thin is just as unhealthy as bei... RICKI-LEE COULTER If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I t... CHRISTINE QUINN Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't hav... CHARLES NELSON REILLY There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - i... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism. DAVID BAILEY Don't be the schmuck on the other side of the table. Don't get an interview with the guy. Be... RICHARD BEN CRAMER I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much.... ADAM SANDLER I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God'... MARTIN LUTHER I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I'm being smart about my choices, and I'... ANGELINA JOLIE I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wou... GARRY TRUDEAU I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, an... NINA DOBREV It's kind of shocking to me, actually, that I've almost been stereotyped, in a way - physica... CHARLYNE YI I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere. ANTHONY HOPKINS When you buy into the cultural idea of what's acceptable and unacceptable, you reinforce negativ... KERRY WASHINGTON 'Step Brothers' itself, when I did it, I don't know if I had any idea that it would beco... ADAM SCOTT Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what w... IAN THORPE I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me. RACHEL BILSON I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fab... NEIL DIAMOND I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno... ARIEL PINK I'd never say I'll never have a facelift, but I'm way too scared of looking like a diffe... ELLEN BARKIN I like the idea of teaching kids how to lose. That's a really important lesson in life. I don... GEORGINA BLOOMBERG Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek ... JULIAN BAGGINI My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where t... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I don't like the idea of being a human being, existing, talking to my friends, and having these ... JERROD CARMICHAEL I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what ... AIMEE BENDER Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about bein... WILLEM DAFOE I lost contact with my father for many years because of apartheid. For, like, six years, I didn'... TREVOR NOAH I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know th... STEPHEN KING I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the B... BRIAN LITTRELL It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don&... JOHN HUGHES I've always been very competitive, and I've always had this desire to win my entire life. I ... PAIGE VANZANT I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both... YO-YO MA I don't want to put myself in any kind of a box as far as my sound goes, because being an artist... LUKE COMBS There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of come... T. J. MILLER I have this romanticized idea of dance music in the '90s because, obviously, I was way too young... JAMIE XX A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and ... ZACHARY LEVI People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't ... ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what... OMAR SHARIF I love my job. But I like to have fun at work. So I don't get finicky if one strand of hair is s... SONAKSHI SINHA For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print o... DIANE LANE I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't b... STEVEN TYLER I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with some... JULIANNE MOORE I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I ... BILLY ECKSTINE Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality o... JOHN LEO It's nice to have a few names. I use a few names myself. I use a few different surnames. I call ... AIDAN GILLEN The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for wome... CANDACE BUSHNELL I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight. EDWARD SNOWDEN Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, o... KIRK CAMERON I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much m... DAVID DUCHOVNY I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my opinion -... AVI It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getti... ANDY ROONEY I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people... DON MCLEAN When I first started working on 'Secret Diary,' I definitely felt like I needed to shape up.... ASHLEY MADEKWE I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. JOEY RAMONE I don't really do glasses. It's a good look, but I'm not big on wearing clear glasses fo... TREY SONGZ I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been... JOSH TURNER I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue. LANCE BURTON My weight doesn't really fluctuate, but I make sure I don't eat late at night. It's abou... RYAN GIGGS By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no id... RACHEL HUNTER
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ALISON LACEY On a creative level, I think the songs are simpler in that they're more direct. To be commercially s... ALISON GOLDFRAPP Always have sunglasses with you. They're great for when you can't be bothered to put make-up on. ALISON GOLDFRAPP We shot it on blue screen, so it was this great big ugly, metal, weird, jerky horse-thing that Brad ... ALISON GOLDFRAPP I remember everyone made this big deal out of it, ALISON GOLDFRAPP But what's great about working with Will is that I was so bored of working with people who seemed to... ALISON GOLDFRAPP They seem to have these personalities that are very generic and so I can't really relate to them. I ... ALISON GOLDFRAPP People say that sort of thing and I just think, nah, ALISON GOLDFRAPP It's like they're a separate identity to the whole music and imagery, ALISON GOLDFRAPP I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will, ALISON GOLDFRAPP I think I heard it once on Top Of The Pops and thought it was very bland, ALISON GOLDFRAPP Most people have a receptor that's very sensitive to the bitter-tasting compound, but in people that... ALISON GOATE One particular allele of this polymorphism was being transmitted to alcoholics in these families. ALISON GOATE We looked in a region of chromosome 7, where there are hundreds of genes, and we noticed that there ... ALISON GOATE When we understand more about the genes and the environmental factors that influence someone's risk,... ALISON GOATE The region of DNA identified in our study showed evidence of replication in four independent series ... ALISON GOATE There are a few genes that have been implicated in the development of early-onset Alzheimer's diseas... ALISON GOATE We don't know which of those genes is most likely to harbor this particular risk factor for Alzheime... ALISON GOATE In earlier work, we had identified chromosome 7 as a region where there was likely to be a gene-infl... ALISON GOATE The take-home message here is that we really need to think about body-image dissatisfaction in boys ... ALISON FIELD The take-home message here is that we really need to think about body-image dissatisfaction in boys ... ALISON FIELD We found that to be a very strong predictor of starting to use vomiting or laxatives to control weig... ALISON FIELD