I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.
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CRAIG GROESCHEL Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It&... ETHAN SUPLEE We're coming into a new generation of women where there's the submissive woman, and then our... BRIE LARSON With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it ... JACK BLACK What's interesting is that some of the things I'm interested in talking about is a story whi... JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying an... ZOE WANAMAKER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice ... FLUME 'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to... IAN MCKELLEN I would say that 'Schindler's List,' as powerful as it was, seemed to have continued wit... EDWARD ZWICK Event cinema is what it is, and I understand why it's successful. It started with things like ... DAVID MACKENZIE I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I hav... KATHLEEN HANNA I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disrega... MELVYN BRAGG I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time.... T.I. We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT In some ways, this museum in Washington gets to do something very important, ... It can be a lens to... LONNIE BUNCH The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so gr... CHRIS EVANS I don't know if it's a sadistic side or whatever, but you take characters and put them in re... MORTEN TYLDUM I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspi... HUGH LAURIE I got a random tattoo the other day. It's a red triangle, which makes everyone think I'm art... ELLIE GOULDING There's a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as t... TOM JENKINSON I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being... OSCAR WILDE I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being... THORNTON WILDER Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed... WALTON GOGGINS You can buy a box of low-fat macaroni and cheese made with powdered nonsense. I'm not worried if... TOM COLICCHIO That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's... CARLY POPE It helps to see the world through a different lens, and that's what we wanted to do with Instagr... KEVIN SYSTROM Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were... ANDREW STANTON Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore... ROMESH GUNESEKERA There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a g... ROBERT MONDAVI 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 I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and ... ALFRE WOODARD I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using. MARLEE MATLIN I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reas... JOHN GREEN If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against i... GARY HAMEL It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the deta... CHEN SHUI-BIAN I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'... OLIVIA CULPO As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peac... HERBIE HANCOCK I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something th... LAURA MVULA Somebody had given me a copy of 'Hunky Dory,' which had yet to be a hit, although it was sta... MICK ROCK I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when w... KELLY CUTRONE
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