Warren Zevon
Related I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first sh... JASON REITMAN Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to... MANMOHAN SINGH TAYLOR LAUTNER BROCK LESNAR J. K. SIMMONS All the investments we have made over the years are starting to pay off. That is not to say there is... JAMES DERMODY I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a rela... EVAN GLODELL I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they w... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN MATT GROENING That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn'... GUY LAFLEUR Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theori... JOHN EATON After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to writ... ISHMAEL BEAH And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I... JAMES P. HOFFA KEVIN BACON STEFANO LANGONE Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all... NANCY MEYERS My mum didn't really let me watch TV until I was about 5 years old. DACRE MONTGOMERY EVE ARNOLD TONY HAWK It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn'... DANIEL ELLSBERG DAN RATHER ROBIN YOUNT MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD I'm one of those people who laughs everything off. If I mess up, I just say, 'Ha! Totally di... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE PATTI SMITH CARSON WENTZ When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin lin... DAVID DEL TREDICI Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that m... KATHARINE GRAHAM ELISHA CUTHBERT Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me ... CONSTANCE WU GEORGE A. ROMERO Suzanne Collins, it was such a big thing for me to make the handshake with her and to say, 'You ... NINA JACOBSON ERIC CLAPTON I feel like a pioneer with the split-fingered fastball. I was the first one to really throw it prett... BRUCE SUTTER FAITH HILL BEBE REXHA CHRISTIAN BALE RAY BRADBURY CHRISTOPHER LEE It's all about becoming a more well-rounded player and not a one-dimensional player. You might h... PETER UIHLEIN LUCAS TILL JACK MCBRAYER CANDICE BERGEN MAYA ANGELOU ERIC MASSA DANICA MCKELLAR IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a Br... RAQUEL WELCH I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The di... TERESA PALMER SOPHIA AMORUSO TYLER PERRY When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I coul... ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN FRANK MCCOURT PAULA DANZIGER GEORGE FOREMAN SAMUEL GOLDWYN I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the ho... JOHN KATZMAN The first time I came onto the ice I had to squint a little bit. I was really nervous going in but t... ANDREW PINSENT 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 FAY WRAY ODETTE ANNABLE GEORGE BRETT Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine. A. E. VAN VOGT ROBIN WILLIAMS ELIZABETH GASKELL It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - ... TIMOTHY SPALL JOYCE MEYER When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE I was correct in every call I made, regardless of what managers, players or replay may have said. To... DOUG HARVEY OLIVIA HUSSEY FERGIE BOBBY ORR MARTINA MCBRIDE Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tem... ILLINOIS JACQUET So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants.... GRAY DAVIS STEVEN WRIGHT Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of act... JACOB BATALON DOLLY PARTON At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting. JACOB BATALON Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investi... ALBERTO GONZALES MONICA LEWINSKY TOM LEHRER What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for... AMERICA FERRERA Opening for certain acts after so many years of headlining obviously made us resentful. It was kind ... ROBIN ZANDER I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher... DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS I didn't know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people. I alwa... CHRIS STAPLETON DWAYNE JOHNSON He really didn’t care, but he tried to pretend he did. JASON MEDINA My grandpa was the one; he started taking up golf when I was about two and introduced me to the game... RICKIE FOWLER I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'... DYLAN O'BRIEN I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't... B. D. WONG IGGY AZALEA When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write... JULIANA HATFIELD God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' ... LINDA SUE PARK I was one of those kids, who...well let's just say that theater really saved my life. It has always ... CINDY GENZANO FRANK ROBINSON CRAIG GROESCHEL 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 I love animals; I've always loved animals. It's how I identified myself for so long, but I d... RORY FREEDMAN
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff g... 
One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I wor... 
Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outsi... 
I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd eve... 
'Animal House' was my first movie, so I didn't have anything to compare it to. I was a s... 
A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to le... 
I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't lig... 
When I landed the first 900 at the XGames, it was just - it was a personal achievement. It was somet... 
For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, ... 
You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any... 
I don't have phobias. I'm pretty laid back. Nothing really bothers me. I can handle things p... 
I was in musical comedy. And I did very well, but the memorization killed me. I'm not good at me... 
I'm one that doesn't let the pressure or any of the outside kind of scrutiny, all those thin... 
I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that... 
I didn't much care for the 'Dawn' remake. It was a well-made action movie but really was... 
I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just ... 
There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I w... 
I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have ... 
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All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was... 
I'm one of those people who really liked high school. I know that might not be a popular thing t... 
Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - bu... 
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't w... 
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I didn't buy the Porsche for status. I hate that, and it's actually kind of goofy now becaus... 
I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how t... 
I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I... 
I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and... 
That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's ... 
People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those ... 
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... 
So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of ... 
My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only st... 
I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That's not going to do me any... 
I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was... 
Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was si... 
I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wro... 
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... 
I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What ... 
I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it,... 
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I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I t... 
When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn't really know what all that m... 
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I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't tha... 
I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years - since I was a k... 
I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical ... 
Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let th... 
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. 
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. 
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. 
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I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit ... 
As far as the timing, well, I'd write that off to luck as much as anything - I happened to be ou... 
You don't just throw the ball - you propel it. 
When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two. 
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to. 
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I ...