Stephen Adly Guirgis
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I am wha... ELIZABETH WARREN TATIANA MASLANY I'm so stupid because I refuse to think that I'm getting older. I get up in the morning, and... CHARO GENE WILDER When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually ... ALEXI ZENTNER I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I ... KEVIN DURANT KARIN SLAUGHTER PETRA NEMCOVA BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN BILLY COLLINS REBECCA HALL I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I lik... JOY FIELDING BRUCE WILLIS RUBY ROSE STEVEN WRIGHT LARRY DAVID I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff f... STEVE FORBERT JASON BATEMAN I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbro... BOY GEORGE JACKIE EVANCHO I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I ca... QUESTLOVE I'm not out looking for a cause. They sort of find me or find my heart. But sure, there's al... NATALIE MAINES I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because th... RUPERT HOLMES BLAKE SHELTON SHAH RUKH KHAN I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Ch... DANIEL EVERETT I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for a... JOHN LOGAN ERIK LARSON I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get i... IMELDA MAY KIM KARDASHIAN KATHLEEN HANNA URSULA K. LE GUIN IGGY AZALEA There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwin... NICK LACHEY GILLIAN FLYNN GUY FIERI MAGGIE Q CHRISTINE QUINN I don't listen to the radio, cause I don't have a driver's license. But if I'm in L.... BENNY BLANCO RYAN REYNOLDS I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, &... FEFE DOBSON Half the time on vacation, if I'm in a bikini, I allow myself - I eat, like, waffles and pancake... ASHLEY TISDALE AUGUST WILSON I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I&#... KELLY MASTERSON J. COLE I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's no... CHRIS STAPLETON ASHLEY WAGNER It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only th... ABEL FERRARA I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change ove... PENELOPE LIVELY BRENDON URIE I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a ... KYM WHITLEY I'm not the kind of writer that can write eight hours a day... I'm the kind of writer that t... DAVID EBERSHOFF JOHN MAYER I'm always trying to emulate guitar. Especially when I'm playing the trombone, that's wh... 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JACK ANTONOFF I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood.... GARRETT CLAYTON I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I e... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN DONALD TRUMP TOM CRUISE TRACEY EMIN AARON SORKIN The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone sayi... BEN SCHOTT SOPHIE KINSELLA When I'm rapping, like, a turn up song, I'm thinking about what the people want to hear; thi... TINK AVICII STEVEN WRIGHT BUDDY HOLLY
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My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'L... 
A lot of comedians get a bad rep once they have kids and that's all they talk about, and people ... 
There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, an... 
I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issu... 
I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I wr... 
I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when w... 
I'm not drunk onstage, although I've done that a couple of times when I was younger. It'... 
Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm... 
It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making... 
I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot ... 
There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that ... 
I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that'... 
I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeho... 
I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to h... 
I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not s... 
When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world. 
I'm a very private person. I barely tell my friends what's going on half the time, so the id... 
I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican. 
I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts ... 
I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not tryi... 
Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's lik... 
I'm not a big, huge star, and so when people see me, it's usually to talk about something I&... 
I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I k... 
When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' ... 
If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it&... 
I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to ... 
I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, 'Do what I do.' I think it&... 
It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really ... 
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. 
They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageab... 
I'm not much of a procedural person. That's not what I'm interested in. 
I'm a big greens fan. I'm a big vegetable fan. I'm a big whole grains fan. And I exercis... 
There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - ... 
I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. ... 
I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. ... 
I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that'... 
I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a r... 
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Listen with your eyes for feelings. 
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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. 
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Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl. 
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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. 
Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. 
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We accept the love we think we deserve. 
Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life. 
It was the kind of kiss that made
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Even a broken clock is right twice a day. 
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I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here. 
The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation. 