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Related I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I'm that person who says, 'No matter what the problem is, there's a solution.' That&... MIRANDA KERR Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. ... LESLEY GORE It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three fee... SCOTT PATTERSON When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I thi... ZARA LARSSON I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read chil... HENNING MANKELL It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON When I was doing the first 'American Pie' movie, I was just happy to have a job. We had a go... THOMAS IAN NICHOLAS About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I was sitting on my mom's lap across from my father to see Kay Thompson at Ciro's. And I alw... LIZA MINNELLI I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly.... THOMAS KINKADE 'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember ... FEDE ALVAREZ It's a dream come true as I await the release of my debut single 'Krazy Konnection' with... ARMAAN MALIK I always tell people there's some kind of wall that you have to break through to see the beauty ... KING TUFF I was, I think, extremely lucky, because the minute I saw my face plastered on 'Time' magazi... DIANE LANE The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God... BIANCA LAWSON Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the t... BEN VEREEN I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with a... LAUREN BACALL I love touring. I can't wait. Everything is just normal when you're finally on tour. I think... ALISON MOSSHART I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, ... CAITRIONA BALFE The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.... IAN MACKAYE My first two years in the CFL, all I thought of was getting back to the NFL - it was like 'I'... DOUG FLUTIE I think the best compliment you can receive is not, 'Oh, that was really funny,' but, 'I... ERIK GRIFFIN I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I rem... ELENA ANAYA The first time I really listened to an album and thought, 'This album is mine,' was Kanye... THEOPHILUS LONDON Coming to New York is like a big hug, everyone is so welcoming. There's something about here, ev... ARCHIE PANJABI The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pa... LANCE BURTON I remember when I was working at Sprint, I'd work on my birthday, New Year's Day, and even C... PRINCE ROYCE When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing ... TEEMU SELANNE When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't hav... DAVID MCFADDEN Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that ... D'ANGELO It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My s... M.I.A. I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Gu... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, a... LAURA MVULA I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why woul... STEVE CARELL I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same ... RACHEL CUSK When we were shooting 'The Book Thief,' I was keeping all these journals. And I remember tal... BEN SCHNETZER Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' a... BECKY LYNCH When it came to 'Binge,' it wasn't my intention to get on a little soapbox and have a te... TYLER OAKLEY I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland... JACK REYNOR Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn... JEWEL I remember when I was in 'Rent,' Daphne Rubin-Vega threw a party. At the time, she had a lof... LESLIE ODOM, JR. I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better... CURTIS STONE I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or ... IMOGEN HEAP I'll never forget the first time... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it a... RANDALL L. STEPHENSON I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I com... HELEN FIELDING I think 'Glee' was a freshman comedy, and I think whenever it's your debut season, you g... GILLIAN JACOBS I sang 'All Of Me' at the wedding. I sang 'Stay With You' from my first album. And t... JOHN LEGEND I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney mus... LAURA MVULA Growing up, I remember I had several different 45 singles. But the first album I received was from a... KIMBERLY SCHLAPMAN I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselv... RICKY MARTIN I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in... IMOGEN HEAP I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so... STELLAN SKARSGARD It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with... BEANIE SIGEL My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I ... BRYAN GREENBERG My first kiss was at a sleep-away camp, and it was very awkward and over quickly. And that was that.... JILLIAN HERVEY The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whene... DENIS LEARY I never thought I would become that person who loves working out. It sucks while you're doing it... ZOEY DEUTCH A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little hom... NICOLAS CAGE George Carlin's album, 'Class Clown,' came out when I was in high school. I memorized a ... STEVEN WRIGHT I had never been to Hawaii, and now I say that my body is from L.A. but my heart is from Hawaii, bec... SHAILENE WOODLEY My first kiss was with a girlfriend. And it was at a party. I think I was hopeful that that would ha... TYLER BLACKBURN I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in Cali... AARON RODGERS I'm from a rural town outside of Stockholm, so in coming to L.A., I've been able to not thin... ERIK HASSLE If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day... CESAR ROMERO I think my most famous was 'Poco's Legend.' It's a white album with a simple line dr... PHIL HARTMAN The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone sayi... BEN SCHOTT I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun. PATRICK CARNEY I was in Toronto with my parents, and my dad took me to an outdoor hockey rink. I was 3 or 4, and I ... WYATT RUSSELL I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and sa... BETH BRODERICK I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What ... FERGIE For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald... WARREN G When my wife was getting a lease for her Jeep Cherokee, and I saw a Dodge Ram Sport, I thought, '... STIPE MIOCIC The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Ta... CARRIE UNDERWOOD I'm up all night, and then next thing you know, it's the morning, and I'll sleep, like, ... CHRISTINA MILIAN I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I ... ZOE MCLELLAN When I first started swinging a bat, I swung righty. So one time, my dad came home, and he wanted to... PRINCE FIELDER I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose th... J. D. VANCE I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew.... GRETCHEN WILSON Everybody always thinks you have to move out of the city and go where the music industry is, but it&... BRYSON TILLER When I got home from hospital, and I was in a wheelchair in a plaster body cast, an aeroplane flew o... JANINE SHEPHERD Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN Me and my buddies are all like brothers. So it's okay for us to say 'I love you' or what... PAUL WALKER I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a m... JACOB LATIMORE I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid befo... DEREK JETER I just think it's quite remarkable that everyone says they want to add more commentary to their ... DANA PERINO I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I... ADAM PALLY At the time, there was a great disagreement over 'The Wild and the Innocent,' and I was aske... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN My kid will come home from seeing the latest 'Transformers' movie, and I'll ask him, ... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU
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BILL BRYSON Nothing gives the English more pleasure, in a quiet but determined sort of way, than to do things od... BILL BRYSON Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessi... BILL BRYSON When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his express... BILL BRYSON I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, a... BILL BRYSON the party animal of the atomic world? BILL BRYSON A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but to deposit the money in his ch... BILL BRYSON And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious eno... BILL BRYSON In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a... BILL BRYSON My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is ... BILL BRYSON Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing... BILL BRYSON It will help more evenly distribute the east-west traffic in that area. CRAIG BRYSON English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and termin... BILL BRYSON The lower cost of Chinese goods means we can spend more on other goods and services. JAY BRYSON Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business... BILL BRYSON One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to ke... BILL BRYSON She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude. BILL BRYSON The good thing about our schedule, you don't want to say the 'classics' don't matter, but we can sti... BRYSON ROSSER It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life m... BILL BRYSON As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures tha... BILL BRYSON This has been a long time coming for us. We first conceived of the project about 10 years ago, and t... CRAIG BRYSON Music is an important factor to a healthy way of living. MAURICE BRYSON Surround yourself with people who value your friendship, rather than those who posed the opposite. MAURICE BRYSON Don't be pigheaded over your successes, but rather educate and inspire others to follow in your foot... MAURICE BRYSON Love is magical, adorable, and challenging. To get the best out of it, you have to live it, feel it,... MAURICE BRYSON In general, a rising rate environment slows down growth, so most companies are not going to go as go... JAY BRYSON Don’t pinch that guy’s ass. He’s a leprechaun. KATHY BRYSON It was never just about the money. KATHY BRYSON She caught you. Therefore she gets your treasure. KATHY BRYSON Are you trying to seduce me or trick me? KATHY BRYSON No one ever said you can’t have world dominance and a little romance too. KATHY BRYSON You didn’t make her sue you, even if you did punch her at that wedding. KATHY BRYSON A leprechaun did not just kill off my car in a hailstorm. KATHY BRYSON Grabbing someone’s ass doesn’t count as capturing them! KATHY BRYSON Oh, you’re hardly one to talk. Look where ogling a man got you. KATHY BRYSON Everything you’re telling me was just a story, and now it’s real. KATHY BRYSON He's going to greet some freshman the same way. MATT BRYSON When you grow up in middle America you are inculcated from the earliest age with the belief - no, th... BILL BRYSON Unfortunately, the underlying details [of this report] suggest that it would be premature to break o... JAY BRYSON We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to ... BILL BRYSON To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. . . . They will listen to your problems a... BILL BRYSON My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry. BILL BRYSON