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MELISSA ROSENBERG I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but n... SADIE JONES If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there's no perspective. You want to use one shot at a ... ROGER DEAKINS I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should al... ADAM CAROLLA Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dea... RAY CHARLES I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody i... MARLON JAMES A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't... BRIAN SELZNICK I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It... ANNA KENDRICK Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story,... VIKRAM SETH I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. So... JULIA ROBERTS People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too grea... DALIA MOGAHED If all you're doing is playing it safe - trying to make the same movie over and over again - tha... KATHLEEN KENNEDY There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that'... CLIVE OWEN That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, a... FRAN KRANZ The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the ... JOSS WHEDON I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I ... VENUS WILLIAMS I just want to make great music. There's not a genre that I would categorize it as, but I want i... JUSTINE SKYE I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that'... CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but... RICHARD NEAL I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of t... MONTEL WILLIAMS Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try ... CASEY WILSON I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all d... GEOFF JOHNS If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there t... GEORGE STRAIT At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical eleme... TEA OBREHT He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though t... DEBORAH COX I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than ... AUNJANUE ELLIS Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's charact... DAVID MITCHELL Can I buy you a drink when you get off?" "I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs." ERIC JEROME DICKEY Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an e... ROBERT GOTTLIEB All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD If you start with a great peach, there's nothing you're ever going to do that's going to... RUTH REICHL At this point, we're in a recovery mission, trying to make sure that, if there are any additional bo... RANDY ADAMS What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader an... GILES ANDREAE The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a myster... HARLAND WILLIAMS It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the s... TODD RUNDGREN I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded chara... BEL POWLEY If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about i... RUSSELL CROWE I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital. SIMON COWELL Just growing up, my dad always told me the most important point of the game is the extra point. A lo... ERIC BERRY Nobody wants to make a bad 'Flight of the Navigator' remake. There's just no interest. W... COLIN TREVORROW The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will crea... PEACE PILGRIM I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting... TAYLOR SWIFT And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it&... 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BILLY CORGAN I don't have any illusions that what we are doing is sticking the the bottle. I don't think ... HILARY ROSEN I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That... RICK RUBIN
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The responses... TONY HAWK I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowb... TONY HAWK I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media. TONY HAWK The pro skaters I know are responsible members of society. Many of them are fathers, homeowners, wor... TONY HAWK I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by t... TONY HAWK I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate ... TONY HAWK If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more you... TONY HAWK Technology has allowed me to reach my fans directly. Social media: it has been a complete revolution... TONY HAWK I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started tra... TONY HAWK I won't quit skating until I am physically unable. TONY HAWK If you have a game with your name on it, you have to learn how to play. TONY HAWK There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. TONY ROBBINS Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident bec... TONY JAA Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to ea... TONY ROBBINS A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws l... TONY HOARE I've said all along that God is in control. TONY DUNGY My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto othe... TONY OLLER The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English ... TONY HILLERMAN Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises. TONY GILROY What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true ... TONY ROBBINS Our kids have to understand that drinking underage is a poor decision that could drastically affect ... TONY CARDENAS Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what t... TONY ROBBINS To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspir... TONY DORSETT I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold ... TONY FERNANDES My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me i... TONY IOMMI It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that ... TONY BLAIR Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them remove... TONY PARSONS The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have beco... TONY CAMPOLO