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Related I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&... J. J. WATT In my horror movies, I was always trying to deal with real characters and real character drama playe... SCOTT DERRICKSON If you lived next door to me and didn't know what I did, you wouldn't know I was a celebrity... BILL ENGVALL I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to ... JACOB DEGROM I'm always trying to be a good example to people and always trying to do something cool. I reall... LUCKY BLUE SMITH I don't know why I always end up talking about my relationships. I try not to. DAVID ARQUETTE I don't even know why, but I've just always done it - I don't walk on handicapped parkin... CHANTAL SUTHERLAND You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All th... COLIN FARRELL Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there'... IAIN DE CAESTECKER I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the ti... ELLE FANNING You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazin... GABRIEL BASSO Don't be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think you... JACQUELINE MACINNES WOOD I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, s... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I c... KAREN BLACK God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don... JAMIE OLIVER I don't like any kind of negativity. I try to be good to everyone, whether it's a love, a fr... NINA DOBREV I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people... NICKI MINAJ I always felt like I was kind of an outsider because I didn't have the right things. I didn'... LEAH REMINI I never promise something; I always say that I will try. Because if you promise something and you do... HENRIKH MKHITARYAN I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn&... JOHN MAEDA I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is go... TERESA HEINZ I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to ha... JACK WHITEHALL I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in ... RUSSELL CROWE I always love to look at something that I couldn't make, because I feel it's enlightening. I... JONATHAN ANDERSON I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am unde... CARINE ROITFELD Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don... JOHN DIMAGGIO Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like... KEVIN DURANT I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. S... JULIAN CASABLANCAS I grew up in the middle of dairy country in Wisconsin, about as far from any major metropolitan area... DAVID WROBLEWSKI I don't read good reviews. I like to know what percentages are going on. When Sony sends out som... EVAN GOLDBERG My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I've had girlfriends, but I always end up on... ERIC CLAPTON I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me... CARLOS GHOSN I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others... JERRY GARCIA Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don't. It was hard bein... HEATHER MORRIS I don't like to do much with my hair - which is good, because I don't know how! I just alway... CHYLER LEIGH I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody e... S. J. ROZAN It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think... HEATH LEDGER People don't understand that I have a great relationship with my parents - like, how that can ex... KATY PERRY I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the medi... J. A. KONRATH I didn't realize the ceiling that I had, and I don't think a lot of players understand what ... BEN ZOBRIST There's just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don't know how to express it, and I ... CAT POWER I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come... TRENT REZNOR It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always use... TERRY O'QUINN I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I go... VERONICA WEBB People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that t... DAVID SEDARIS I don't want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I'm learning a lot about the golf game... FRED FUNK I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is go... TERESA HEINZ Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn... BILL BURR I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And nor... BUBBA SMITH People ask me what it's like to be tall, and I don't know what to say because I don't kn... ELIZABETH DEBICKI Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you'... RIAN JOHNSON There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much ... AARON RODGERS My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel C... RAFAEL PALMEIRO When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't u... MANNY MONTANA I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being l... DAVID RUSSELL I have a very open mind. I believe that there's a spirit world. I believe that there's a lot... ANTHONY HEAD I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt... VERONICA WEBB I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don... KARINE VANASSE If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, a... TAVI GEVINSON I like girls who want to get up and dance and don't mind singing in front of my family - you kno... OLLY MURS I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of w... MARK HADDON To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to b... SUGAR RAY LEONARD Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is forei... AIMEE MULLINS I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don&... CAMPBELL SCOTT I learned something through the experiences in my life, and that is that you never judge how someone... KIMBERLY SCHLAPMAN I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature... ANDY SERKIS I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. ... ADAM BRODY I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools.... ROSE MCGOWAN I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&... TERRY WOGAN I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how g... SUMMER GLAU There are many people who probably don't agree with my acting, and it should be that way: they d... ALIA BHATT What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't thi... CAROL BURNETT Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in b... MARISOL NICHOLS Growing up, I've had plenty of obstacles, but to be honest, I didn't always have doubters. I... ROMAN REIGNS I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an acce... JHUMPA LAHIRI I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassette... ELIZABETH WURTZEL There is always a reverence issue, and I'm no different from any audience member that if someone... JANE GOLDMAN I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away wi... RIAN JOHNSON I don't claim to know Israel. I don't speak Hebrew; my contacts are pretty limited. But I di... NORMAN FINKELSTEIN If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. JOHN MALKOVICH I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like ... ANTHONY HOPKINS It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that.... CHLOE SEVIGNY It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, th... REBECCA FERGUSON I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign pol... TED CRUZ I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try. ZACHARY QUINTO Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't trea... BO BURNHAM One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can'... FRED WILSON People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My inno... CARINE ROITFELD When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I have... OSRIC CHAU My dog Jake ran up to Dolly Parton, and he put his nose up her skirt. We were like, 'Oh my God, ... DIERKS BENTLEY I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way t... DENNIS FARINA Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'... RUSSELL WESTBROOK What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nu... ZACHARY QUINTO It was just something - I didn't agree with what the flag was representing at this time, and you... COLIN KAEPERNICK The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to sta... A. R. RAHMAN You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? ... MICK JONES The hardest moment comes BEFORE you get started. #DontGiveUpNow MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In ... ALEXANDER SKARSGARD The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game th... THIERRY HENRY I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller. JOSE ANDRES
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LAURA ROBSON There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often. LAURA ROBSON Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. LAURA RIDING If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer yo... LAURA RIDING I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad ma... LAURA RIDING Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which... LAURA RIDING The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The... LAURA RIDING I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I kn... LAURA RIDING I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thi... LAURA RIDING To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of ar... LAURA RIDING Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for... LAURA RIDING We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of our... LAURA RIDING I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic c... LAURA RICKETTS My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian wome... LAURA RICKETTS Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of a... LAURA RICKETTS I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my ... LAURA RICKETTS When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parent... LAURA RICKETTS We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay. LAURA RICKETTS I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I... LAURA RAMSEY I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different. LAURA RAMSEY The Internet is so big that no one can control anything, really. LAURA RAMSEY When you go in and guest-star on a TV show, they already have their family - everybody pretty much k... LAURA RAMSEY You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one. LAURA PREPON Free love sounds great. LAURA PREPON I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belon... LAURA PREPON I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, ... LAURA PREPON In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is ... LAURA PREPON When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything,... LAURA PREPON I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay. LAURA PREPON On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's ... LAURA PREPON I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you... LAURA PREPON There's nothing you could say that would shock me. LAURA PREPON The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't bel... LAURA PREPON Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys. LAURA PREPON I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too. LAURA PREPON