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Related I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt. TINA YOTHERS I've become more comfortable as time has gone on with saying goodbye because... I've been ha... BRIE LARSON In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is t... NICK STAHL My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. ... MICHELLE OBAMA I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and some... DAVID CRONENBERG I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and t... JASON RITTER I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they... WALTER F. MONDALE For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and ... DANA PERINO I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very ... WALTER KIRN Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and... BILL WALTON I've had my share of villains and played some fairly nasty characters. But I've been acting ... JACKI WEAVER I've made no secret of the fact that I often wear wigs and have in fact launched my own 'Dyn... JOAN COLLINS I've been thinking if 'GoT' would lend itself easily to an MMORPG. I mean, it certainly ... KRISTIAN NAIRN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I would love to act for the rest of my life, but I also know that it could be taken away in a day. I... SHAILENE WOODLEY The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not oft... CASEY AFFLECK After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I'... LARA LOGAN I like it when a man puts thought into the kind of restaurant we're going to. That doesn't m... MEGHAN MARKLE I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've ... TAKI THEODORACOPULOS In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so ma... LILLY SINGH I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always... MARTHA PLIMPTON Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went... DIANE SAWYER As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with othe... FOREST WHITAKER Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as th... TOM HEINSOHN I've never had a haircut where I've gone to a hair cutting place and they gave me an incorre... CHANDLER RIGGS I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anythi... BRYCE HARPER I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never... MARIAN KEYES I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started... S. J. PERELMAN I'm not some schmuck they just hired and threw down in the Performance Center and gave him an en... DEAN AMBROSE I have minor characters who are Asian-American, and I've been using them throughout my career, b... TESS GERRITSEN I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a 'C.L.E. Moore Instructor.' I had been an instruc... JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through... PAUL FARMER I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person. JULIANA HATFIELD As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people ... DAVE DEBRONKART It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel ... CAMERON CROWE In my entire life, any time I've ever lost something, I've gotten something even better goin... WAYNE DYER I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these ch... PATRICK MARBER There have been times that I've wept as I've gone from city to city and I've seen how fa... BILLY GRAHAM My mum wants me to get married - and have children, of course. She's met Gaga; we've been da... TAYLOR KINNEY It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being... WAYNE DYER My son, before he went to school, he'd eat pretty much everything. Then as soon as he went to sc... TOM COLICCHIO I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Ear... AL PACINO You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I se... JOHN LYDON We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you... ROY WOOD I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sin... ZARA LARSSON Certain people in life are just going to take what's given to them, and certain people in life k... DANNY BROWN I'm just this committed dilettante. I think what I've found is that I've tried to do a l... GRAHAM MOORE My parenting heroes are the Obamas! They've been married for so long, and it looks like they'... GLOZELL We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical ... PETER CAPALDI I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us hum... EDGAR RAMIREZ I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life,... STEVE JOBS I've gone through many phases in music in my life. Before I was signed, I was making completely ... CHARLIE PUTH I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to ... TREVOR RABIN I'd love to have more kids. I'm one of four, and I've always dreamed of having a huge fa... ABBEY CLANCY All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all. RALPH BAER I've never, ever in my life touched a photographer. Some of the cruellest things I've ever s... RUSSELL CROWE I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They'r... DAVID HEYMAN In my mid-20s, I was directing episodes of 'Alfred Hitchcock' and 'Peter Gunn.' I wa... GEORGE STEVENS, JR. I have been incredibly lucky all my life. I've had a family that has loved me and given me incre... JUSTIN TRUDEAU I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They'r... BENNY BLANCO As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about ... KELLI BERGLUND I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn&... VICTOR ORTIZ I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just so... CHARLIE ROWE I'm pretty sure 'Nutty Professor' will happen to me at some point. And when it does, I w... PRIYANKA CHOPRA I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just ... JON BELLION If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to ... ED HARRIS I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisio... KAMALA HARRIS Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they... REBECCA HALL I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectiv... JIMMY CARTER I've been really lucky in the work that I have done so far, to work with good female actors in l... SARAH SNOOK I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go i... WESLEY SNIPES It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I'm not a blokey bloke. I don't take myself too seriously. But that doesn't stop me bein... TOM ELLIS I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ni... TARAN KILLAM I have great fun with the Togs - Terry's Old Geezers and Gals. They're a group that formed a... TERRY WOGAN I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences ... LEWIS THOMAS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I've learned more and more on each show that I've done. I've been blessed and I've g... STEVEN R. MCQUEEN I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentall... ANDREW MASON Sometimes I leave an encounter or a conversation hoping that I didn't come off as above my raisi... JASON ISBELL I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some ... WILL FERRELL I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will n... DAN MARINO The characters I've played as an actress have been really challenging and emotionally rewarding,... DANIELLE HARRIS In my own work, I don't have favorite characters, but I have characters that I relate to the mos... CASSANDRA CLARE During my career I've enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are re... DAVID S. GOYER I've had shows as a painter, as a photographer, I've done shows as a sculptor. I've done... NORMAN REEDUS I feel sometimes and in some ways like Linda Romanoli and Monica Velour; I feel marginalized because... KIM CATTRALL I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've... JOHN PRESCOTT I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can... AUBREY MCCLENDON I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a b... EVAN DANDO I've been able to see some very impressive people that are in politics, and I've been able t... DONALD TRUMP, JR. I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some we... CHRIS MATTHEWS Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they&... HANS-ULRICH OBRIST People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can ... KEN FOLLETT I could cut my leg of; I could cut my arm off. I could gouge my eye out - I'd still probably sur... PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. I grew up Catholic, and when you've grown up, and these belief systems have been presented to yo... CHARLIE COX I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the res... JACK MCBRAYER I've had every chemo in the alphabet, most of them more than once. Some of them that aren't ... CRAIG SAGER
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