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ANDREW BOGUT In NFL preseason, the coaches don't use 10% of the playbook. They don't game plan. They do n... RUSH LIMBAUGH It's a curious thing about celebrity: being somebody who was one of the stars of one of the most... MIKE FARRELL I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don... DAN AYKROYD I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to... ANJELICA HUSTON There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don... AARON SPELLING I don't actually go to that many conferences. I do that a couple of times a year. Normally, I am... LINUS TORVALDS Driving will never be away from me - I can't just give it up. It's all I've ever done, a... JIMMIE JOHNSON There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might... CHRIS YOUNG I don't want to take the escalators. Give me the stairs that have the dips and the two old ladie... RJ CYLER I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come ... JENNIFER LAWRENCE The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuf... SEBASTIAN JUNGER I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try ... ANGELINA JOLIE I'm single. I just moved to a new city. I'm sort of starting over. I'm in Los Angeles. I... SUTTON FOSTER I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done e... GREG KINNEAR I can't just wear whatever when I go out because somebody might want to take a picture. People a... BRYSON TILLER Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be... CHARLES FRAZIER I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in... R. KELLY What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it. CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that... ELISHA CUTHBERT Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of th... IRIS APFEL One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when yo... JACK WELCH I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment th... STEVE ANTIN I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the h... HERSCHEL WALKER It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've d... LAWRENCE KASDAN Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they fee... LARRY HOLMES We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your ... CHELSEA PERETTI You would think with me living in Los Angeles I would go to the beach all the time, but we don't... MARISSA JARET WINOKUR I try to stay away from stuff that's just action, action, action, action, action, and you kind o... MARK DACASCOS 'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an I... LAPO ELKANN I'm directing episode 10 of the new season of 'Dollhouse' and couldn't be more thril... JOHN CASSADAY I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in.... KHALED HOSSEINI When you get quick fame and success and exposure, it makes you feel dizzy, and I didn't want to ... LUDIVINE SAGNIER I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it ... IGGY AZALEA It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with q... BEN E. KING I have somebody I admire and want to keep at a distance. I've had the opportunity to meet her a ... TIG NOTARO So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly use... JACK VANCE I actually find Los Angeles, in the daily sense, a quite normal place to live. It is certainly conti... JOHN HENSLEY Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we... ALEX FERGUSON When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live... LATOYA JACKSON I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like ... T.I. I never did work in the off-season, and I never did play winter ball or anything else. 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