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I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there'... RACHEL DRATCH All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD What I don't like about Washington, if we say one syllable or one sentence, or this guy said som... ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indi... MINDY KALING I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In o... JACOB DEGROM I think that it's very, very hard for the NRA to continue to defend the position that people who... SHELDON WHITEHOUSE I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too muc... CHRISTIAN BALE I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you... ELMORE LEONARD I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They ... NAIMA ADEDAPO Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you on... ALEXANDER DOWNER I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring pe... LADY GAGA I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees t... BRION JAMES I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here... TOM HARDY I would say I'm more traditional than I am superstitious. I don't, for example, have to do t... TROY POLAMALU I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the ... ERIC AVERY I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried ... KAJOL You know that I had heard so many times people say things like, 'You could never write 'Harr... 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And now I kind of want to ton... NICKI MINAJ I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say... FRED COUPLES I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is k... VIVIAN CAMPBELL There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the a... MICHAEL FASSBENDER So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about ... EMILY BLUNT The Olympics was always my be-all and end-all, so when I won, it was the best feeling in the world. ... JADE JONES Oh, I love it. I love that guy. I wish he didn?t have a girlfriend, ... Did I say that out loud? I d... CHRISTIAN FAURIA I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of... LEE SMITH Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main id... KURT MASUR When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. ... GAD ELMALEH I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow... PAT CONROY How did I become a star? I don't know how it happened. When I look at my old pictures, I can'... FATTY ARBUCKLE I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my ... LAURA RICKETTS I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what ... AARON ECKHART My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, '... DANE DEHAAN People always ask me, 'I don't know how you could watch that, how that affects you,' and... MARCUS LUTTRELL Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely ... BENNY GREEN There's so much to argue about. That was the goal with 'Really Really.' Somebody asked m... 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I don't know how I got that. They said ... MARK VALLEY I had become so insulated in my world as a mother that I didn't know how to pick up the phone an... PEGGY LIPTON I know I probably have a lot of rage in me that I don't show. But I'm not about to wallow in... JULIE ANDREWS I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that. FAY VINCENT I would love to have a conversation with you when we're working, and if I'm at a basketball ... EMILY RIOS People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don... IAN HAMILTON FINLAY I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had tha... TUPAC SHAKUR My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, t... LOUIS C. K. I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve ... ELIE WIESEL I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It ... KAILASH KHER That's one thing people don't know about me - I eat in my sleep. I can't keep things in ... DENISE VASI There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might... CHRIS YOUNG I don't just rely on my right hand when I'm in the ring. That's the least thing I think ... DEONTAY WILDER From my experience, I would say no: actors of East Asian descent don't get the opportunities whi... GEMMA CHAN I don't have children. I don't know how I would feel if my child brought home a different ra... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience... CHESTER BENNINGTON It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, t... JACKIE ROBINSON It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to de... DYLAN WALSH I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that... DYLAN MORAN I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There's something about me that I just don't break o... BETH GRANT I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I... FRANK MCCOURT I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don... MACKENZIE ROSMAN
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