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Related We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expresse... MELVYN BRAGG I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot o... TOM CRUISE Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities. RADHA MITCHELL You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn... PAUL THEROUX When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehous... JACK ANTONOFF Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful pla... FELIX BAUMGARTNER You know when you become friends with someone, you don't even remember? When you weren't fri... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. There weren't a lot of 'Singin' in the Rain' fans in my age group. JEAN LOUISA KELLY We didn't have music videos. You weren't an overnight sensation. You had to work at it and l... ARETHA FRANKLIN I do a lot of referendums. They can't talk back. They don't have wives. They don't have ... ROGER STONE When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of ... DAVID STEINBERG I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't... RASHIDA JONES I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and ... CARLI LLOYD I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family. DANNY DYER Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to... CARA DELEVINGNE We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything,... HUGH LEONARD I thought that some of my best records was when there wasn't a lot of work being done on it, lik... GIL SCOTT-HERON You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of pl... TERRY PRATCHETT There are a lot of options when it comes between music and acting. For me, because I'm so passio... CHRISTINA MILIAN I never felt the same passion for the game in the States and there were a lot of headaches, a lot of... HOPE SOLO I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's co... LANGHORNE SLIM I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn... CARRE OTIS I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around an... ED HARRIS I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them un... MALLORY ORTBERG When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dat... S. E. HINTON The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my ... SCOTT STAPP There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don... BILL KELLER I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a l... DAVID EDWARDS In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of cho... ADAM LAMBERT I grew up in a really small town: LaGrange, Georgia. There weren't a lot of creative outlets the... ELIJAH KELLEY I didn't have any friends. I was bullied. I didn't play sports. DACRE MONTGOMERY A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are ... DAVID LYNCH If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about r... MIKE NICHOLS As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home wh... EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the &... JACK WAGNER My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot o... PALOMA FAITH I didn't have a lot to do with the first record. BO BICE I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my fr... NATALIA KILLS When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so ... NAOMI CAMPBELL When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good stu... THOMAS MCDONELL We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn't stop ... ELI YISHAI A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn'... DREW HOUSTON In 'Expendables 2,' there was a lot of vulgar dialogue in the screenplay. For this reason, m... CHUCK NORRIS 'Just Can't Let You Go' is a song about passion. It's when you have such a strong pa... MANIKA My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't hav... AL FRANKEN I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was... MARTINA MCBRIDE Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It... LARRY SMITH I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences. BENJAMIN BOOKER A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can... ANNE HATHAWAY The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because be... JANE WIEDLIN There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't... PHIL GRAMM I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good e... AIMEE MANN There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work o... DARREN ARONOFSKY I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into i... BUZZ OSBORNE I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not... PAUL SIMON A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation. RYNE SANDBERG I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't. GARY NUMAN I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - t... JAMES STOCKDALE Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love talked trash about the fact that I hooped. I once stopped to say '... JEFF AMENT I love the entertainment business. I have a lot of friends in it, but it wasn't my passion. The ... CASEY WASSERMAN I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and ... WILLIAM JOYCE I can't sit around having coffee. I have all these appointments, and a lot of my friends sit aro... EVA MARIE SAINT I didn't have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didn... SKYLAR GREY A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to ge... GARY DAVID GOLDBERG He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know h... JACK NICKLAUS We didn't really expect to achieve anything outside of the UK, and it just went crazy. It's ... ZAYN MALIK Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportu... ALEXIS BLEDEL Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who cla... BILLIE ARMSTRONG Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who cla... BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We di... JOHN SAYLES I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don'... ADAM DRIVER Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if... BETH GRANT You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too mu... DAVID EDWARDS I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at al... BILLY BRAGG I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot o... CHET FAKER I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car -... KAROLYN GRIMES People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches t... WILLIE MAYS There are a lot of guys who play in the NBA. There aren't a lot of guys who have a chance to win... JAMES HARDEN It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren'... J. R. MARTINEZ If I hadn't had that decade in the music industry and, perhaps more importantly, time to reach t... JOHN NIVEN It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through tha... GARY WRIGHT I'm really lucky to have a lot of friends in fashion. I don't know if that's common, but... GIGI HADID I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was ... ELIZABETH PENA I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career. SALLY KELLERMAN I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot o... MADS MIKKELSEN Hardcore without punk isn't music, it's a genre of porn. And punk isn't a genre of music, it’s a t... DOMINIC OWEN MALLARY I wasn't a good kid in school. I wasn't a bad kid. I just didn't focus. My grades weren&... DACRE MONTGOMERY I didn't go to drama school, so I didn't really have many true friends in the business; '... ALFIE ALLEN We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot... BRIAN SETZER We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s a... F. GARY GRAY There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that ha... CLINT EASTWOOD Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why t... BILL LASWELL Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your care... LARRY SMITH Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just som... CHRISTOPHER PARKER I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't kno... NATALIE IMBRUGLIA There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing. MANUTE BOL I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortun... DANNY ELFMAN The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs.... WYNTON MARSALIS I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do. JOSH TURNER A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. TRAVIS BARKER
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DAVE BARRY We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless y... DAVE BARRY Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that h... DAVE BARRY If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to sa... DAVE BARRY And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to ta... DAVE BARRY The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious pe... DAVE BARRY Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. DAVE BARRY New York Taxi Rules:1. Driver speaks no English.2. Driver just got here two days ago from someplace ... DAVE BARRY Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organiza... DAVE BARRY Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won... DAVE BARRY Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night DAVE BARRY Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. DAVE BARRY Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. DAVE BARRY I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Futu... DAVE BARRY One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a compute... DAVE BARRY If you can't excell with talent, triumph with effort. DAVE WEINBAUM People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with th... DAVE BARRY Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous sys... DAVE FOREMAN Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see wit... DAVE BARRY We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but ... DAVE BARRY We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately c... DAVE EGGERS You sit at a desk twelve hours a day and you have nothing to show for it except some numbers that wo... DAVE EGGERS It’s not that I’m not social. I’m social enough. But the tools you guys create actually manufa... DAVE EGGERS Even in a country like the USA where fitness has become an obsession, most people exercising do not ... DAVE WILSON Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, usi... DAVE BARRY