I look at people in certain circumstances, and I fall into caretaker mode real quick, real easy. I like to shoulder people up and carry them along, and then I end up creating some kind of dependency. I enable. It's really, really hard for me.
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Related I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I I'm a real person. I have real feelings. I have real thoughts. It's a quality people like ab... GERRY COONEY People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I&... SOPHIE MONK One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy... GARY VAYNERCHUK It's like I was always not quite sure even how to move in space somehow; I would watch people an... BINYAVANGA WAINAINA They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person u... CHARLIZE THERON When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I thi... ZARA LARSSON I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's lik... LARRY BIRD When I end up yelling, it's not really deliberate. It's usually out of some moment of passio... CHRISTINE QUINN I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you'r... FKA TWIGS I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometim... MARY STEENBURGEN There's always room for your hard-core country songs, and that will always shine through, and I&... LUKE BRYAN I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time beli... CONOR OBERST It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what c... LISA MARIE PRESLEY And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives. ELLEN PAGE I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walk... PAUL WALKER I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me... YOUNG THUG I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who real... OLIVIA HOLT And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don'... CHANTAL KREVIAZUK People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I shou... RODNEY KING Trust is really important, just in relationships in general. I really don't like people that aren't ... BEYONCE KNOWLES I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them ... ALAN ALDA I really look up to people who experiment in all areas and I think Johnny Depp is a really good acto... GEORGIE HENLEY I don't really think dreams have real meaning. Some people believe in that. I just think it'... EUGENIE BOUCHARD I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that... DYLAN MORAN I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it migh... ROD STEWART I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price... CAMILLE GUATY I think most people think of ballerinas as kind of either as a fairytale, far-away thing that's ... MISTY COPELAND There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated ... KIRK GIBSON I know with me, you really have to, like, pound me over the head to say, 'I like you. I really l... KIELE SANCHEZ Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I lik... CASSANDRA CLARE Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show... IDINA MENZEL I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chron... JOYCE CAROL OATES I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in,... S. J. ROZAN It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that'... HALSEY There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing o... CARA DELEVINGNE When I like myself, which is not too often, but when I do like myself on film, it's when I point... DINAH MANOFF Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been ... HARMONY KORINE Documentaries really hold a lens up to life and capture real emotions. It's so rich for me to see a ... DANNY DEVITO I do love Instagram, and my kids are with me, like, 24-7, so it's inevitable that they'll be... BRITNEY SPEARS Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into thei... EVA SIMONS I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real ... DAVID DOBKIN A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which i... NATHAN FIELDER I'm really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-... NOREENA HERTZ I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people s... ZOOEY DESCHANEL Hair and make-up people don't get enough credit for what they do. It's not just making peopl... KRISTEN CONNOLLY Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - '... HILL HARPER When I first started looking at Twitter, I followed people like Steve Martin, who will just write th... STEVE CARELL I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write ab... LOU REED I feel like I'm a professional storyteller, really. A lot of people say 'a truth teller,'... BILLY HOWLE I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and kn... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me.... DANA FOX One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always tak... SUNIDHI CHAUHAN Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things... KATHRYN HARRISON I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I ... XOSHA ROQUEMORE I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look aro... CATHERINE OPIE When I was 4 or 5 and I could put complete thoughts together and really feel them, I remember watchi... JOJO We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? W... BEBE REXHA At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and beco... ROY HARPER Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall. EDDIE VEDDER I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford a... ALEX PETTYFER One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think... KATE WILLIAMS I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, an... NINA DOBREV I know what I'm like when I don't have a project coming up, and that's the mode I'm ... ALLISON WILLIAMS Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really ki... LEWIS BLACK Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I us... STEVE BUSCEMI They showed me a search warrant, and I just glanced at it. I was half-awake. I was just kind of taki... SHERMAN AUSTIN I like my home to be somewhere where my friends can feel like they can put their feet up on the couc... STACY KEIBLER I got up (to throw) and they told me to start hurrying up. It's kind of weird, but, hey, I got warme... JOEL ZUMAYA I like comedy a lot, and dramatics show how I can really act. Because a lot of people can do comedy ... CAYDEN BOYD If you work hard at anything, you're going to experience some success. And the greatest gift is ... ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot... DOLLY PARTON I really like the retro look. My regular clothing, I like to always keep it classy and I like to kin... ALY RAISMAN It's people who you've seen that have given you a lot. In some ways, I felt they helped me p... TIM BURTON When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really m... LORDE I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that the... BELLA THORNE If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which p... STEPHANE HESSEL When you're in comedy, people always come up and say, 'Oh, it must be so hard.' It reall... JERRY SEINFELD Some people are really proud of me, and some don't like it. I don't really know what to tell... BRYSON TILLER It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real event... TAWNI O'DELL Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - wh... LARRY THE CABLE GUY People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, beca... VINCENT CASSEL I'm a really nice guy when you meet me, and that surprises a lot of people. I'm not that ecc... KSI I really believe God has put me in the entertainment business, and he's taken real good care of ... AUSTIN O'BRIEN
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I thought I was a hippie, bro. I wore Birkenstocks every day. I went to a Christian high school, so ... PAUL WALKER I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walk... PAUL WALKER I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could... PAUL WALKER I'm a science guy. I'm a geek. I love geology and botany and marine science. I thought maybe... PAUL WALKER I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age ... PAUL WALKER I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, ... PAUL WALKER I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and g... PAUL WALKER Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon famil... PAUL WALKER Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificen... 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PAUL WALKER My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy. PAUL WALKER My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day. PAUL WALKER You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else... PAUL WALKER My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control. PAUL WALKER It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of. PAUL WALKER Everyone has an opinion. PAUL WALKER If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys. PAUL WALKER I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am. PAUL WALKER My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it. PAUL WALKER I want to wake up next to what I went to bed with. I need a girl who can get dressed up to come with... PAUL WALKER I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I ... PAUL WALKER The people I don't understand are atheists. 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PAUL WALKER I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it'... PAUL WALKER If you blew up some of these tanks or warehouses with ton containers of agent … you could kill tho... PAUL WALKER As things stand at the moment, I would have said a realistic rally in the price is up to $500. PAUL WALKER I play Hank Hansen, a real guy. You'd be amazed at how much information they have on this guy: perso... PAUL WALKER My father isn't affected by too many things but even he couldn't stand the language. It's definitely... PAUL WALKER That was a big boost when she won that match. PAUL WALKER People can't even open their mouths to talk to him, they are in awe. PAUL WALKER The girl still knows how to win. PAUL WALKER The real mechanism is what this will do to the dollar. It may be the straw that breaks the camel's b... PAUL WALKER Where we think our business will really take off is because of Chris Daly's ill-advised legislation. PAUL WALKER People are concerned over safety and spillage, especially for the workers. We're all really hopeful ... PAUL WALKER Everything just flows on Clint's sets. No one ever drops the ball. And, personally, that guy has a l... PAUL WALKER I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I jus... PAUL WALKER That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always wa... PAUL WALKER I've always been one foot in, one foot out of this game because I'm not comfortable with bei... PAUL WALKER Once you hook them up and they start pulling that sled, they just want to go and go and go. The hard... PAUL WALKER You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective. PAUL WALKER It was redemption. She felt like she let the team down by not getting any points (Monday). PAUL WALKER I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That's no joke. I have a 'half pipe' in th... 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PAUL WALKER I'm a problem solver. I love people. The more complicated they are, the more I get into them, an... PAUL WALKER I learned a long time ago that if you subscribe and believe the good, you have to believe the bad. M... PAUL WALKER I like a woman that's capable and at the same time feminine. I admire tomboy qualities but with ... PAUL WALKER I don't think of myself as a romantic person; I'm kind of more rough and tumble, I think. Th... PAUL WALKER If one day the speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling. PAUL WALKER I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern son... MARGARET WALKER Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you ... MARGARET WALKER The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. MARGARET WALKER I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can... ALAN WALKER There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are v... WALKER STAPLETON Reforming PERA will strengthen and improve Colorado's all-important long term standing with cred... WALKER STAPLETON It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Go... WALKER STAPLETON We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded r... WALKER STAPLETON As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not spec... WALKER STAPLETON If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless ... WALKER STAPLETON That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing... WALKER STAPLETON When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co... 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KARA WALKER I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was alway... KARA WALKER There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn't fit with ... KARA WALKER My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it... KARA WALKER I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, an... KARA WALKER I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels. KARA WALKER I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the whit... KARA WALKER I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive f... KARA WALKER Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done. KARA WALKER I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that m... KARA WALKER The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing els... KARA WALKER I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, m... KARA WALKER A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpecte... KARA WALKER To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You... KARA WALKER I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say. KARA WALKER Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And... KARA WALKER I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing mor... KARA WALKER I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling. KARA WALKER Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is n... KARA WALKER My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling r... MARGARET WALKER I have a lot of stories to tell because I've been down a lot of roads people haven't been. JIMMY WALKER I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. KARA WALKER There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black... KARA WALKER I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim... ALICE WALKER I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire... ALICE WALKER It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated... ALICE WALKER Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. MORT WALKER Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire... SCOTT WALKER The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the... SCOTT WALKER It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand. ALICE WALKER I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's ca... EAMONN WALKER I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he w... EAMONN WALKER Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like... EAMONN WALKER I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for i... EAMONN WALKER My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die... MAX WALKER To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ... EDWARD WALKER Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are compe... HERSCHEL WALKER I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and t... LUCY WALKER They have terrific guards and a big front line. They are very, very good. AL WALKER I don't know what happened. If I could figure it out we would've stopped it. AL WALKER Unfortunately we couldn't make a stop or get a score in the last few minutes. We should have won the... AL WALKER Nine is absolutely exceptional. What we gave up on the glass, we did a better job of taking care of ... AL WALKER If that's not a man going to work. That is absolutely awesome. AL WALKER We have earned four very hard road victories in the conference. We're really looking forward to comi... AL WALKER Andre played the best [back-to-back] games of anyone in my six years coaching here. He especially pl... AL WALKER I think we're really starting to come around. We understand that we can be good if we defend, reboun... AL WALKER We went on the road and won four games, which is tremendous. Now we start the next segment of the se... AL WALKER They certainly had an offensive performance today. Those guys have the green light to take shots and... AL WALKER If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo... ALICE WALKER How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th... ALICE WALKER What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved ove... WALKER PERCY It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts. ADDISON WALKER If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosqui... MICHELLE WALKER The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any ALICE WALKER Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. ALICE WALKER Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make you... ALICE WALKER I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have ALICE WALKER Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre... ALICE WALKER I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some... ALICE WALKER In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,... ALICE WALKER As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action. HERSCHEL WALKER He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself. WENDY WALKER I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern ... WALKER PERCY The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native gro... ALICE WALKER She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch... ALICE WALKER The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. ALICE WALKER For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that t... ALICE WALKER Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ... ALICE WALKER It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr... ALICE WALKER What we are seeking is for the federal government to pick up the gap, ... The amount that they offer... ALLEN WALKER I'm attached to my sailors. I'm not attached to my ship. (As) long as I bring my sailors back home t... ALLEN WALKER If I had my druthers, we would have been finished with this months ago, ALLEN WALKER I like living in a smaller town better than I do the city. People in Memphis are spread out doing th... ALLEN WALKER We lost everything in the house as far as the house goes. Didn't have no insurance on none of it. ALLEN WALKER It finally seems to be the right time. We seem to have an increased interest in nursing in our stude... ALLEN WALKER Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, G... ALICE WALKER The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. ALICE WALKER The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than bl... ALICE WALKER The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previou... ALICE WALKER How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. ALICE WALKER And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative sp... ALICE WALKER