Joan Blades
Related DAVID BAILEY We're starting to let AOL members know about this opportunity now to strongly encourage them to impr... JOE REDLING RYAN GOSLING When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. Wha... ALFRE WOODARD MICHAEL IGNATIEFF JAMES TAYLOR The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the m... VANESSA MAE When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical... JAMIE CULLUM SCOTT KELLY When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience. AL YANKOVIC PAUL STANLEY What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because ... AL JARREAU It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires,... BEAU WILLIMON XAVIER RUDD GRAHAM MOORE With a creature, there's no voice, so the eyes become the voice. When you get eye-to-eye contact... JAMIE WYETH ROBERT ENGLUND It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the ... GORDON NEUFELD PETER GUBER ELLEN BARKIN In a way, that's always been Yes' history to a large extent! Quite a few occasions when we&#... CHRIS SQUIRE TIM HARFORD JAMES TAYLOR CRAIG GROESCHEL If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like... CARLTON CUSE There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hop... DAVID AGUS IGGY AZALEA BOBBY ORR So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of ... NATE PARKER SETH GODIN DAVE GROHL In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're ... RUTH NEGGA If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honke... MARY DORIA RUSSELL In 2008, Senator John McCain forbid his staff from using an ad that referred to his opponent Barack ... JOHN DICKERSON When you've experienced the real Marilyn, it's difficult to watch a movie about her.' I ... LAWRENCE SCHILLER In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testi... BETTY HILL I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the ... JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to h... BLAKE MYCOSKIE People go into a gallery, and they're afraid to express their opinions about art. No one's a... WILLIAM QUIGLEY JARON LANIER Something happens when two people look at each other, and they have a cellular connection. It's ... COSTA RONIN ALYCIA DEBNAM-CAREY You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you... PAM BONDI We compile information sent in to us by police and sheriff's offices. ALICE ERICKSON WARREN BEATTY Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so ea... DAVID MILLAR WAYNE DYER HASSAN ROUHANI It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this ... FRAN KRANZ It is important for directors to do a good job in communicating with staff members and empower them ... GERHARD SCHMIDT AOL is committed to offering our members the best high-speed experience -- not just faster dial-up b... JOE REDLING NOVAK DJOKOVIC We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the ... PATRICIA IRELAND MIRANDA KERR There's tons of members of the Carradine family. It's more like a clan than it is like a fam... DAVID CARRADINE JIDENNA DAVID MAMET There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balan... PETER AGRE BRENE BROWN It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem... BIANCA KAJLICH We may never find a way to live in suburbia with deer as we do with raccoons, say, or squirrels. So ... ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can un... LEA SALONGA There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and ... BEN BASS When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional... ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN DAVE MATTHEWS If we're reading a first-person account, we know that each and every one of us, myself included,... ERROL MORRIS In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to te... JOAN GANZ COONEY GERRY COONEY One of the changes I'm driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call 'the challenger mindset... STEPHEN ELOP CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES BRENE BROWN HALLE BERRY MICHELLE PAVER PHIL KLAY JOHN PAUL JONES It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us.... SAKU KOIVU BEN HOPKINS ANNIE LEIBOVITZ MARK WAID ALEX STEFFEN There's a fundamental difference between how often men remember to say 'I love you' and ... BRETT YOUNG MIRANDA HART RUTH REICHL So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're com... DON CHEADLE It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people... LUPITA NYONG'O VIRGINIA POSTREL We still go to nonfiction for content. And if it's well-written, that's a bonus. But we don&... GEOFF DYER GAEL GARCIA BERNAL I have a couple of go-to sneakers off the pitch. I like to have shoes that I can slip on and wear wi... ALEX MORGAN DAVE MATTHEWS TIM CAHILL RICHARD BRANSON Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you h... CHARLES POLLOCK ANNA WINTOUR DOROTHY HEIGHT GIGI HADID There's this thing about authenticity when you rap, right? Whether or not it's real, it has ... DAVEED DIGGS NEIL GAIMAN
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