Mark Leyner
Related TAYLOR SWIFT JOAN JETT STEVEN WRIGHT I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying... DAMIEN RICE I think I have a habit of, in my head, taking notes on whatever, you know, whether they're verba... ROZ CHAST KENDALL JENNER NORTON JUSTER RACHEL MADDOW When I'm rapping, like, a turn up song, I'm thinking about what the people want to hear; thi... TINK FERDINAND MOUNT When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they'r... ILLINOIS JACQUET NICOLAS CAGE I don't want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commerc... CASEY AFFLECK JOSH HARTNETT What I'm saying is that, unlike a lot of portrayals of me, I'm not hiding behind the sunglas... DAVID DUVAL I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you ca... ERIN ANDREWS I never took any guitar lessons or anything; I never really learned to play covers. I'm actually... KING TUFF We're always trying to outdo ourselves, trying to do better, trying to write better songs. I thi... JOSH DUN KODI SMIT-MCPHEE I suppose I don't have to work, but I do love working. I class myself as a working-class girl, a... BONNIE TYLER Actors want to act. I think a lot of times what happens is that they're expected to bring it all... DAVID AYER SIA IKE TURNER I'm an extremist so I'm either hated or loved. I think it's down to when I first got to ... LEWIS HAMILTON I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My... CALVIN KLEIN I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal... NEKO CASE MATISYAHU PETER THIEL MAYA ANGELOU I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or ... DUNCAN JONES I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don... MAC DEMARCO I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently sug... HAROLD RAMIS BJORK RYAN GOSLING I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that the... SAM WORTHINGTON VICTORIA BECKHAM CONNOR FRANTA IVANKA TRUMP I'm hyped up when I'm working. Some people eat when they're hyped up and some people don... SUSAN SULLIVAN JOEL OSTEEN QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; ... MICHAEL PALIN ROBERT REDFORD LIZ GOLDWYN MEGAN FOX EMMA STONE RUPERT GRAVES IGGY AZALEA SAM YAGAN BROCK LESNAR KEVIN COSTNER JOHN LYDON ZARA LARSSON They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my famil... PAT BURNS LAURA MVULA Sometimes, when I'm trying to get my thoughts out, and I'm thinking too fast, I stutter. DOMO GENESIS Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's w... JASON ROBERT BROWN JOSH HARTNETT MINDY KALING FRANCESCA ANNIS My mind is in another planet behind the blocks. Sometimes I'm up in the blocks, and I'm like... CESAR CIELO HEIDI KLUM I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it'... PETER MORGAN I'm a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people ... GLADYS KNIGHT Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that th... LANGHORNE SLIM KEVIN HART When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I think the Haitian people are trying to turn a new page in their history. That's what we, the US, a... SEAN MCCORMACK I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I k... JULIAN SCHNABEL I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like th... EDIE CAMPBELL I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working! GAGE GOLIGHTLY JOHN RIDLEY I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Some... MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL When I'm working I wear so much makeup, and when I'm out with my friends I wear makeup, so s... LAURA MARANO GRAHAM MOORE If at my funeral they're talking about my boxing stories, I'd be disappointed because this i... MARK DE MORI DREW FULLER I'm just trying to do big things with my career all the time. JACOB BATALON I'm very bubbly, so when people meet me, they sometimes think I'm fake. I'm excited to m... LYNDSY FONSECA EMINEM LOU REED LIL REL HOWERY Those old Appalachian singers use a falsetto sometimes. They can change their voices to sound high o... JUSTIN VERNON MARTIN SHORT KESHA FIONA APPLE TAYLOR SWIFT I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some we... CHRIS MATTHEWS TOM CRUISE I'm 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and mo... ALISON LOHMAN EVANGELINE LILLY I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed abo... NTOZAKE SHANGE I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconst... FRED FRITH ANTHONY JOSHUA DONALD TRUMP HUGH LAURIE VIK MUNIZ I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like ... P. J. HARVEY POPPY DELEVINGNE I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a s... LAUREN GREENFIELD
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MARK GATISS MARK MCKINNON MARK TWAIN MARK ZUCKERBERG MARK HOPKINS Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it... MARK HAMILL What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet! MARK MCKINNEY MARK EDWARDS MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'pay... MARK SKOUSEN Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset ... MARK GATISS MARK RUFFALO MARK ZANDI I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you. MARK MCKINNEY MARK ZANDI MARK WAHLBERG There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the ... MARK GODDARD I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Los... MARK GODDARD I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry abou... MARK RONSON Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin... MARK KELLY I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t... MARK FROST We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunit... MARK RUTTE We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-s... MARK RUTTE MARK ZUCKERBERG MARK ZANDI The best person to get something done is a busy person. MARK BURNETT The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good... MARK STEYN MARK MCKINNON MARK MCKINNON Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, t... MARK HOPPUS MARK ZANDI MARK WAHLBERG When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting th... MARK WATERS MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don'... MARK FUHRMAN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK RUFFALO MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline ... MARK RUSSELL MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK FRAUENFELDER Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk... 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