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I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that

I can. I do it within various communities across Australia where I am able to make a positive contribution. And let me tell you, my voice won't be silenced in the public debate because the issue at stake for Australia are so stark. Kevin Rudd You know, I love America. It's such a positive country. Victoria Beckham A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. Steve Truglia Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways. Jennifer Lopez The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in. Anna Friel Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change. Andrew Cohen Well, actually, plucking my eyebrows is more of a hobby than a grooming tip. Courteney Cox Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Marian Wright Edelman I love sports and I l...

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which

are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself. Elizabeth Gilbert I have to always remember, writing is really hard. David Remnick Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite. Chuck Klosterman CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you. Sanaa Lathan I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me. Gene Tierney And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua. Alex Cox A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. Elizabet...

There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily

break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship. Jeremy Sisto We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it. Nathan Myhrvold My favorite part of any project is the preparation. It's where you get to meet the people, the experts. Jason Clarke It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience. Susan Lucci I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates. A. Scott Berg The scalpel won't make you happy. Demi Moore A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate. John Hodgman It's not like I have all the answers. Regina Spektor I could have had class. I could have been a conten...

A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to

have a kind of poise or presentation that's beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they've spent years just hanging out with adults and they don't even have a sense of what it's like to grow up with kids their own age. Alessandro Nivola I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s. Bob Iger I think one of the secrets to modelling is the less you care and the more you're yourself, the more successful you are. Daria Werbowy 'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar. Nolan Bushnell He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men. William R. Alger The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes. Mark Helprin If we think of what's up ahead, with cl...

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you

can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh. John C. Reilly America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy. Gordon Brown The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. Gilbert Murray Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay. Gary Miller I love Jennifer Aniston's style. She is streamlined and never overdone. And Demi Moore always looks classic, gorgeous and sophisticated. Hoda Kotb The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incre...

I'd be totally exhausted by mid-afternoon, and I could barely climb the stairs at home.

It was particularly alarming because all my life I'd enjoyed doing all my own stunts in shows, taking on every physical challenge. Yet suddenly, I'd become like a very old man. I knew something was wrong, but I had no idea what. Michael Crawford I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well - it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive. Vivienne Westwood Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death. Peter DeFazio I just don't crave junk food. Cat Deeley I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe. Charlize Theron When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep. Marilyn Monroe I have never had problems sleeping the night before a rac...

When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some

tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out. Michael Hayden I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible. Andy Taylor It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that. Robin Wright As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas. Harvey Pekar Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around...

Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of

your humanity in a very different way. It's a real release and an incredible challenge. But the stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that's part of the thrill. Anything can happen. Nina Arianda Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality. Herman Wouk I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act. Grimes To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. Chris Evert Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. Ludwig Wittgenstein To be the man, you gotta beat the man! Ric Flair Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative. James Surowiecki In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science...

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human

beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology. Lewis Thomas It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son. Frances McDormand In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that. Brian Eno I had always thought of Chris as my kid brother and watching how this kid, as I still thought of him, had affected so many people's lives around the world was incredible. Margot Kidder If you feel like singing along, don't. James Taylor I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful. James Iha I guess when you turn of...

In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology

is known as 'bhava,' which literally means 'becoming.' In this space of becoming, we are subtly leaning forward into the future, trying to have security based on feeling that we can hold on, we can try to keep things from changing. Sharon Salzberg Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion. Margaret Sanger I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. William Graham Sumner If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same. Rick Derringer I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mothe...

Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so

that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means. P. T. Barnum Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks. John Cusack I was happy she got it and I have to sort of - and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work. Nia Long A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty. Dolly Parton Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakesp...

I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which

I happened to see at a very young age, but also by the Warner Bros. cartoons, 'Tom and Jerry,' and of course Disney. And also by Fellini's 'Giulietta of the Spirits' and Kurosawa's 'Ran.' And by other American illustrators and painters. Henry Selick A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows. Annie Besant Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time. Anthony Holden I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting. Nina Bawden No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration. Martin Van Buren Choosing how you vote should not be...

I've got a vibe going on with a lot of what I've been doing, and

to completely change it based off of me having a child might be a little confusing. I'm sure as my life goes forward, and she starts growing up, there will be a lot more things to include in my music. But, at this point, I'm just sticking to what I do. Jake Owen I like pineapple. It's delightful. Sarah Drew When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.' Mark Udall What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. Shinichi Suzuki There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up. Mickey Rourke I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him. Terry Riley I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of t...

I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh

that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that. Creed Bratton Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page. Tom Wolfe Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God. Rowan Williams My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home. Cheryl Strayed People know I was the last true champion. Lennox Lewis We are each other's destiny. Jacqueline Novogratz What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues. Samuel West There hav...

I recently declined to support a Conservative function because I'm so incensed about these wind

turbines. Like all so-called climate-change doubters, I am very pro the environment, but I strongly believe that it is something that can only be cured locally. Some insane overall scheme isn't going to cure all the problems. Tim Rice When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people. Pat Boone The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge. Dave Ramsey The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot. Rupert Everett There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty. Rashida Jones I do think it is possible to be in love with two people at the same time. Morena Baccarin Some very famous directors have started i...

It's not about what the speaker wants. It's not about necessarily what I want. There's

two other principles involved here. It's what the constituents in my district want, and they didn't want to raise the debt ceiling unless there were significant structural reforms and spending cuts to help us balance our budget. Tim Huelskamp I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country. Rahm Emanuel My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended. Vernon Jordan I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots. Craig Charles It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history. Eugene Jarecki I keep everything that's private private. Kate Bosworth I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska. Sam Barry You learn from your mistakes. Thierry Henry My father used to call me the laughing hyena. Phyllis Diller My fa...

One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like

there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense. Jennifer Carpenter I think it's important to watch out for our environment and to be careful. Joe Jonas I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress? Farrah Fawcett If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves. Jonathan Sacks Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention. Patrick Macnee People love their comic books. Jessica De Gouw You h...

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it

nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. A. N. Wilson Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel. Emir Kusturica When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course. John Cale When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that. Michael Pitt I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys. Benedict Cumberbatch To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death. Garrett Fort I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence. Aung San Suu Kyi I lite...

Perhaps we should worry less about judging people for being Mormon or Baptist or Muslim

or gay or straight or black or white or Latino or by their religious or political brands and worry more about electing thoughtful, serious and ethical politicians on both sides of the political isle who are willing to work together for progress. Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems. Michael Porter An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects. Orson Pratt The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around. Tony Dorsett Military families so much appreciate the love, support and prayers. Bob McDonnell There...

Showing up to games year after year, no matter what the product on the field

gives you back, is a learned behavior - sort of like rats in a maze searching for cheese. The rat learns the maze, learns where the cheese is placed and eventually goes to it without thought, even when the cheese is taken away. The rat doesn't know anything else. Joe Cowley Our Constitution was put together for a free people. Butch Otter I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college. Sally Ride I would like to be recognized for my style, because I love clothes. Emma Roberts I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it. Lawrence Summers When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues. Youssou N'Dour JLo and I did not get along well when we worked together. I don't think there's love lost. I don't know if there was a lot of love from the very beginning. Carrie Ann Inaba The best things in ...

I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do

with it. Some of it will be Strokes, some of it will be I don't know what - stuff for pop singers. TV themes. I've got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are just me humming into a recording device. Julian Casablancas There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it. Van Morrison When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary. Lionel Messi I get really nervous if pigeons are flying around before shows. I can't stand them after one once flew in through my bathroom window and went for me while I was having a wee. That was enough. I think pigeons target me. Niall Horan Kanye West is my favorite artist. Drake What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him. Thomas Perry I like to control my own person...

I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor,

patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform. Jim McDermott I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged. Seann William Scott I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance. Julian Fellowes A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted. Dorothy Height I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky. Devon Sawa It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity. Lyman Abbott I like my life. I like my frie...

There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away

from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me. Anne Carson Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision. Paul Wellstone One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it? Tom Baker What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system. Kurt Huber Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated. Madeleine M. Kunin Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.' Ezra Taft Benson Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear th...

And those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are

going to sit in fear of the President. And a lot of people don't want to say that. They'll say, God, don't be attacking Obama. Well, this is Obama's deal and it's Obama that's responsible for this fear in America. Steve Wynn Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage. Zakk Wylde My mom has always wished me a daughter just like me. Pink Earnestness is stupidity sent to college. P. J. O'Rourke Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons. Eugene Jarecki I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas. Frank Butler I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing some dresses at night. Hedi Slimane The y...

When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark.

Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life. Jane Siberry One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better. Hugh Jackman I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. Quincy Jones I went to see Harvey again in Fiddler. Harvey's throat is getting better. Rip Taylor Love is a game in which one always cheats. Honore de Balzac You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior. Linus Torvalds Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone ...

I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go

to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it. Sam Worthington I ride my horse at competition level. Alannah Myles If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer. Mary Oliver We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy. Bulent Ecevit I didn't want to go on the DL. I want to keep pitching and competing. They decided it's better for me to take some time off and that's what we're going to do. Johan Santana I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing. Fred Wilson In the moment of acting you don...

I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in

quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance. Guy Oseary Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow. Graham Swift The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes. David Tennant I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure. Isaac Mizrahi I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me. Rachel Maddow I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality. Gordon Ramsay The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful. Christina Ricci I'm a real workaholic. Laurie Anderson I do like athle...

I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And,

I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people's imaginations is really endless. Harold Prince Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride. Ezra Taft Benson I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career. John C. Reilly The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we. Ezra Taft Benson To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred. Tina Brown I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise...

It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order

to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host... It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it. Mike Rowe We will not accept in our country even a single soldier who will attack Muslims or Arabs. Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant. Susan Orlean My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. Simon Newcomb And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time. Jackie DeShannon I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that way. Shelby Lynne The majority of people who buy...

It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme'

'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful. Wendell Pierce I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part. Eric Bana I only watch MSNBC for the news. Andre Leon Talley I married my wife because I love her and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. Michael Schiavo In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away. Tahar Ben Jelloun If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. Robert Anton Wilson The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power. Jerry Rubin You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up. Fantasia Barrino Anything to do with the land, I love. Chris LeDoux ...

I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when

the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in. Geraldine Brooks When I came up with the character of Wicket for 'Return Of The Jedi', which was my first film, I was a kid of 11 years old, and I basically was playing a very young Ewok. Warwick Davis I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun. Cindy Gallop I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I'm courtside at an NBA game. I always, always get my picture taken with my mouth wide open and a tortilla chip sticking out of it! Eva Longoria My life is basically my work. Temple Grandin That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell the...

I actually went to see 'Rushmore,' and I came late, and I missed myself. It

was great, that scene. I caught that scene the other day on TV, funny enough, the first scene that you see with Jason Schwartzman and myself, where we talk about his grades. That's a brilliant scene, and I have to say, we play it brilliantly. Brian Cox I'm very good at forgetting people. Kristin Scott Thomas I don't have any desire to ever act again full time. Jodie Sweetin I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well. Stana Katic People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all. Ben Affleck Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday. Bob Seger I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private he...

Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do

is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline. Nate Silver I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament. Tony Blair The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album. Marc Almond You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I'm not into business at all. Freddie Mercury It is not truth that matters, but victory. Adolf Hitler I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with 'Night Shift' and 'Splash'. Brian Grazer I'm always in bed by 11 or 12 and people laugh all the time - they want me to hang out u...

I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I

write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide. Laurie Notaro A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. Sacha Guitry For Christmas I do gift bags for my friends and the cast, and I put 'treat yo self' key chains in there. And people send me pictures of 'treat yo self' all the time. Retta When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff. Trey Parker I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny. Albert Brooks I've become increasingly confidant in following intuit...

The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my

head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever. Hans Zimmer If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it. Conor Oberst A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition. Anatoli Boukreev Regardless of your political affiliation, most people agree that Ronald Reagan was an American icon. He was a president of national significance and for that reason he deserves an honor in the nation's capital. Henry Bonilla After you date a player or two it's nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic. Angie Martinez I always wanted to be a mommy. Stephanie Seymour Washington tol...

When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat

on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed. Tea Obreht When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. Jackson Pollock Words and ideas work in the short run to get you through school and to impress educators and employers. But they do not work in the long run or in the deep run. We soon find ourselves separate and without wonder. Richard Rohr I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything. ...

I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and

London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world. David Guetta I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie. Mike Myers It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions. Goldwin Smith I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them. Emilia Clarke I don't preach or try to impress my views upon people. Raine Maida I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years. Richard Attenborough I hate doing photo shoots. Megan Fox Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers ...

While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind

as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic. Charles Frazier I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York. Gabriel Macht Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down. Janet Jackson Film is a strange thing. Steve Zahn When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it. Helen Fisher Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell. Julian Clary I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant. Michael Sheen You hav...

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to

be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker. Chris Cleave During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result. Walther Bothe I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot. Bobby Cannavale So this is America. They must be out of their minds. Ringo Starr I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles. Gena Rowlands I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more experiences. Deborah Cox The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essen...

You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not

uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning. Evan Bayh A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent. Cyril Connolly I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game. Isaiah Thomas Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy. Chris Rock No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management. Sean Hayes I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes. Danielle Steel I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not. John Grisham I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living. Christopher...

As a black woman who grows up in a predominantly white neighborhood, you learn how

to perform a 'good' version of yourself. And then when you're with your home girls, you're saying all kinds of stuff that sounds all kinds of crazy, but you understand each other because you're speaking the way that you're comfortable with. Katori Hall In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I've been lucky with my choices. I'm very strong-willed, so I've been able to stick with it. I'm lucky there. January Jones Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe. Mario Batali For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better. Julia Butterfly Hill Not only the bull attacks his enemies with ...

I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of,

as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better. Matt Taibbi When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing. Shah Rukh Khan The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken. Francois de La Rochefoucauld You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7. Shirley MacLaine Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice. Jenni Rivera I am not accustomed to protocol. Evo Morales Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Roma...

You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see

you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone. Tarsem Singh Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work. David Duchovny I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas. Matt Smith I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy. Andrew Dominik But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning. Craig McCracken I love all kinds of art....

We're trying to get as many people to become interested in seeing it, but if

you like the theater and you're interested in seeing what live theater looks like in New York, you probably already set your DVR. It's gonna be a hard ask to get a bunch of college-basketball fans to tune in for three hours to watch the Tonys. Neil Patrick Harris You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. George Eliot Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant. Ralph Merkle Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Iain Duncan Smith I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me. Solomon Burke I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are differen...

You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism,

I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I'll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader - on a bad one, it's the shipping forecast. Will Self I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke. Emily Mortimer I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with. will.i.am I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement. Natalia Vodianova When my best friends doubt their little black dresses, they call me on the telephone seeking reassurance. Andre Leon Talley I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore. Nancy Grace Give a girl an education and introduce her prop...

The real story in housing will be a recovery in the economy that will drive

a recovery in housing, When people are working, when there are more jobs, more households forming and people go back to buying cars, they're going to want their apartments and homes. And that's when you'll start to see a recovery in home prices. Jamie Dimon Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years. Gavin Bryars So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore. Miroslav Vitous My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there. Michael Arndt Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut? Jack LaLanne I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to. Ron Silver From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I ...

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time

away from your friends and loved ones, but it's not like working a 9-5 job and only having two or three weeks off a year. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly. Douglas Booth I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad. David Millar I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them. Andrea Arnold It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions. Rosamund Pike Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there. Tom Morello I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My lim...

I think for most actors, because we sort of have to tell ourselves this, we

always say, 'Oh, it doesn't mean anything to win an Oscar!' It certainly isn't a goal that you want to set yourself up for, because then you're just setting yourself up for disaster. Because how many people actually win an Oscar? Mary Elizabeth Winstead I love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect. Brittany Murphy It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult. Rashida Jones Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage. Emily Oster I use the Internet for what it's for: to learn. Danny Brown When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky. Donald Glover I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not ...

I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as

I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.' Ayelet Waldman I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music. Noel Gallagher Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are in your career - how many tickets are sold. Jake Owen You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well. Anne Rice I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out. J. Cole It's a very nice thing to have a baby. Andy Richter I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language. Mohsin Hamid When elected official...

You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country

and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.' Rand Paul And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music. Mel Tillis The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe. Orson Pratt Well, I've always been eclectic. Emmylou Harris Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. Boris Johnson And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation? Melina Mercouri I wanted to be an a...

My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I

don't agree with that kind of education because I feel that the concepts are not contextualized... it's interesting to try to make my kid a reflective boy, rather than just a repetitive boy, even if he doesn't agree with me. Ana Tijoux According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes. Stanislav Grof Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car. Robert Plant The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant. Joe Pantoliano A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half. Jeff Cooper The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. George Berkeley The publicity and hoopla was never important to me. Jesse Stone Music plays a very impor...

I hate the idea of theatre just being an evening pastime. It should be emotionally

and intellectually demanding. I love football. The level of analysis that you listen to on the terraces is astonishing. If people did that in the theatre... but they don't. They expect to sit back and not participate. Sarah Kane The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars. Tina Thompson I'm very passionate about animals. Emma Caulfield It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one. Francois de La Rochefoucauld I don't think I'll get married again. I'm not looking for it. What I can say about my divorce and my failed engagement is that I learned where my bar is. Jill Scott I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life. Olivier Theyskens No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough. Alvin Ailey If I have to change m...

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged

and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. James Wolcott My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. Patty Duke My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time. Lianne La Havas It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. Friedrich Nietzsche I used to go to the U.S. Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds. Andy Roddick So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist. Santigold Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are. Johannes Tauler Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude. Jessica Savitch Baseball life is a tough life on the family. Nolan Ryan ...

I use a portable pocket ultrasound device instead of a stethoscope to listen to the

heart, and I share it with the patient in real time. 'Look at your valve, look at your heart-muscle strength.' So they're looking at it with me. Normally a patient is tested by an ultrasonographer who is not allowed to tell them anything. Eric Topol In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it. Joshua Bell I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching. Gabriel Iglesias This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences. John Sununu We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay...

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock

that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world. Michael Mandelbaum Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings. Paris Hilton I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that. Judith Jamison Everybody has an idea of the kind of society they'd like to live in, and I would like to live in one where our senior politicians were spirited and original and possibly even good at what they do. Andrew O'Hagan I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.' Rickie Lee Jones Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. Vladimir Nabokov I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old. Leonard Nimoy I definitely want to get in shape...

When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get

over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to. Veronica Roth Friends accept you the way you are. Marilyn Monroe There are so many young women who throw their talent away. Britt Ekland Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! Susan B. Anthony You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you awake at night. They are going to use everything possible. Cobi Jones I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be. Kyan Douglas My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should. Cyndi Lauper The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life. Georg...

The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted

of a thousand or so well stocked independent booksellers in major towns and cities supplemented by thousands of smaller shops that carried limited stocks of mostly current titles along with greeting cards, toys and so on. Jason Epstein We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true. John Malkovich The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting. Brian De Palma When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong. Brett Ratner I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old. Harry Mathews Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. R...

I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I

don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it. Brian Cox I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy. Joseph Epstein But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans. Peter T. King Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue. Donna Shalala I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite. John Terry I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin. Roger Bannis...

Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated.

Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow. Felix Dennis I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough. Irving Paul Lazar I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded. Molly Ringwald The Earth needs rebels! David Icke Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs. Aubrey McClendon Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. Arthur Conan Doyle Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do. Michael East Knowing how to d...

Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and

we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it. Dinesh D'Souza My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage. Beth Ditto You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet. Brian O'Driscoll The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more. Frank Black With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me. Vanilla Ice Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. ...

In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that

the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for. Nathan Myhrvold The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. Marianne Williamson You could put me on any track. I support that one million percent. Whatever the track is, I'm going to smash it. Believe that. Busta Rhymes I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation. Francesca Annis Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups. Emily Mortimer But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability. Greg Mortenson The man who is intent on m...

Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than

any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory of problems that he inherited is probably as big overall as any president, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt and maybe, in some cases, worse. Chuck Hagel I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter. Alan Lightman What you believe, what you value, how you live, matters. Mitt Romney You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor. Michael K. Williams I'm not big on regret; I don't spend a lot of time on it. Joss Whedon If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's. Paul McGann I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation. Sienna Miller Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities. Michael Zaslow...

If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to

make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier. Peter Doig When you have four daughters, you learn to lose early and often. Harvey Weinstein For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to. Anna Nicole Smith I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything. Travis Barker Beauty awakens the soul to act. Dante Alighieri Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me. Cindy Crawford Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film. Norman Jewison I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball ch...

Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its

American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot. John Lahr I eat very clean, healthy food at all times because I'm very focused about keeping myself in shape. Jodi Lyn O'Keefe I think gay marriage should be the national law. Rose McGowan I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that. Joey Santiago It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself. Karolina Kurkova In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap. Ken Buck 'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life. Gabrielle Reece People who do comedy ...

On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to

Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No. Tama Janowitz I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain. Iain McGilchrist In school I related to boys. Chaz Bono I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too. Anna Sui The pain of retirement means loss. John Murray I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. Ralph Waldo Emerson I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design. Len Wein I often see through things r...

But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans

and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness. Ben Carson You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into. Lance Bass Nobody really believes in equality anyway. Warren Farrell I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos. Laura Prepon I'm scared of clowns. Jada Pinkett Smith And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America. Ed Gillespie I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures. Jack Horner I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting. Katy Perry I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model. Janice Dickinson I ...

I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people

are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.' Zooey Deschanel There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it. Sally Field My wife taught me the importance of living well. Robert Mondavi I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure. John Woolman There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself. Jerry Only My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels thr...

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to

find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics. Lauryn Hill I like All Saints. They make great leathers. I love Hugo Boss, especially the suits. I like James Perse for T-shirts, and Supra and Radii for sneakers. And God Is in the Details. Marlon Wayans I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida. Jake Owen I don't consider myself bossy, but I do know what I want. You know, I have a gut feeling about a piece of material, but I've never envisioned myself as the director on top of the hill with a megaphone in my hand, screaming at 1,000 extras. Jason Reitman Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers. Willie Stargell Like any kind of writing, there are go...

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