friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know. Duffy My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child. Iain Glen I much prefer touring to anything else. Studio work is great, and can be hugely satisfying, but live work has the excitement and the lifestyle that I love. Gary Numan I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world. Mike Wallace They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills. Mahalia Jackson We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together. Emeril Lagasse I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come. Martha Plimpton I ...

such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty. Nikki Reed There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming. Ralph Fiennes I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything. Zach Braff I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man. Elisabeth Rohm Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind. Laura Ingalls Wilder I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with. Mia Wasikowska There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for. Donald Judd When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same. Bela Lugosi I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea ...

gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do. Brett Hoebel I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard. Junot Diaz I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old. Rooney Mara The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises. James Surowiecki No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife. Owen Paterson For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. Margaret Atwood I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'...

is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening. Radhanath Swami I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck. Nina Bawden I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. Masaharu Morimoto Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others. Elizabeth Janeway I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level. Olga Korbut When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six. Alic...

you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism. Zack Snyder What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood. Jamie Bell Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now. Saku Koivu With me and basketball, it became part of me. Mike Krzyzewski Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art? Robert Musil My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible. Tahar Ben Jelloun The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corpo...

knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center. Ellen Barkin I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball. Summer Altice Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless. Elizabeth Wurtzel Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. Henrik Ibsen There was a space program before there was integrated circuits. Jack Kilby I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place. Francis Walsingham Perhaps it is the language that chooses...

during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change. Thomas Keating Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me. Courtney Love I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try. Pamela Anderson As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy. Billy West I've always been a hustler. Kevin Plank I'm vegetarian so eating right definitely gives me the energy you need. Shannon Elizabeth If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic. Paul Lynde I think it's important to be happy before you can make anybody else happy. Julianne Hough In America nothing dies easier than tradition. Russell Baker

who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person. Katherine Moennig Having been a cheerleader, I know all too well what these girls give up to join forces and compete. Kelly Ripa I love singing and I think I have a really nice voice, but I don't think I have an unbelievable singing voice. I think I have a great character voice. Katie Finneran Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend. William Feather I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing. Carly Rae Jepsen I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house. Herschel Walker Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know cov...

contained in other Pink Floyd records, particularly following on from 'Animals,' which was very spare and sparse. Production on it was much more massive, the complexity of the recording was much more intense. Nick Mason There are certain things that don't mix well with MS. One is staying up late at night. Another is big, noisy crowds. Well, campaigns are staying up late at night and big noisy crowds. Ann Romney What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen. Bruce Jackson Cities are made for enemies to destroy. Will Oldham Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience. John Lothrop Motley I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets. Jack Ma I don't believe in the moon landing conspiracy theory. I don't believe in Big Foot. Jerome Corsi When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, ...

I did give them bonuses. We accomplished a lot in Congress, we passed health care reform. There were threats against their lives; they had a tough two years. They'd forgone any cost-of-living increase or any bonus before. John Salazar I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters. Jeremy Northam A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. Harvey Cushing I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx. Ed Koch What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses. Barry Diller I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did. James MacArthur I just want to play music with a band, live. Jessica Mauboy I just hope I can sp...

'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much. Jonah Hill Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast. Jean de La Fontaine When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed. Judith Martin Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned. Sanjay Dutt I want to make my mum's life and my life safe. Martine McCutcheon I've got a young man who works for me who says you don't need to discover your dreams - you need to recover them. Dave Ramsey Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do. Esa-Pekka Salonen If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's...

just write the funniest non sequiturs now and then, which I thought was really fun. That's kind of the road I've taken. Every now and then, something comes into your mind and you put it out there. It's very innocuous. I think it's kind of fun. Steve Carell There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing. Jessye Norman I think a good relationship is about collaboration. Jennifer Aniston I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. Claude Levi-Strauss Being gifted needs courage. Georg Brandes He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. Mikhail Bakunin Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both. Marilyn Monroe YouTube is a good way to disc...

in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples. Barack Obama You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family. Adriana Trigiani I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist. Matthew Sweet People get a kick out of my stupidity. Dolly Parton Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to. Barry Sanders I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states. Gerald Walpin I wa...

I thought, 'I think I could do this. I think I could be good at this.' I would just get sort of hungry when I read something I thought I can do well, whether it was in books or in scripts or if I saw a certain movie. It sort of happened quite naturally. Alice Englert The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming. Natalie Coughlin We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter. Isaac Yeffet Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life. Donny Osmond One does not re-light a dead cigarette. Anna Held Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander. Sebastian Coe I dreamed really bi...

secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security. Fred Durst Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible. Robert Fitzgerald Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever. Billie Jean King More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material. Charles Eastman I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much. Lily Aldridge The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them. John Ashcroft It's no one's fault to be bor...

our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world. Simon Mainwaring Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do. Phylicia Rashad For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically. Renee Olstead The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump? D. H. Lawrence I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off. Daniel Craig Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they d...

feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations. Karen Allen I'm a singer who moves like a dancer. Bobby Darin I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record. Don Henley Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it. Alvin Lee I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. Ernest Gaines The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed. Stephen Ambrose I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often. Richard J. Codey Mitt Romney, quite simply, doesn't get it. Julian Castro I turned a lot of people in white America...

F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity. Arlie Russell Hochschild Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. Jack Kingston Only the ideas that we really live have any value. Hermann Hesse To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. Plutarch I'm sort of the Antichrist to the Conservative Party. Andrew Cuomo Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions. Hanna Rosin Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom. George Duke It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches. Peter Stuyvesant ...

'American Playhouse' for very little money. They care about making your play, your script, not some network production. We're treated like playwrights, not like fodder for some machine. Terrence McNally My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil. Arto Lindsay The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power. Xun Kuang People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.' Serj Tankian I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Gordon Sinclair I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics. Anthony Bourdain I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. Eleanor Roosevelt No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlemen...

you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems. Colin Quinn When I was outed, it was like, That's done. Billie Jean King I think my motto is to always remain focused on what it is that you're trying to accomplish. Ashanti The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures. Ivor Novello All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life. Joe Baca What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue. James Hansen My music is a luxury. Lana Del Rey I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car. Nigel Mansell ...

and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again. Fred Durst The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented. Jack Schwartz I try to act out of faith. Marian Wright Edelman I'm kind of domestic, untidily so. Tom Paulin I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings. Bruce Springsteen I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people. Jasmine Guy I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth. ...

with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am. Pete Postlethwaite I think audiences have always wanted to see women in the movies, but every time a movie like 'Bridesmaids' comes out, everyone says, 'Oh how funny, people do want to see women in the movies.' Isla Fisher I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley. Spike Lee You know, I was not an attractive child - I never had a cute face. Megyn Kelly History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Edward Gibbon I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one. Jonah Hill I'm the son of high...

money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation. Baz Luhrmann I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time. George McGovern And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this. Robert Mueller It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real. Emily Blunt It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling. Geoffrey S. Fletcher Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition. Chaske Spencer If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of ...

themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt. Scott Brown There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys. Garth Brooks I'm definitely a pop artist at heart. Sheena Easton How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. Wallace Stevens I think I pick more winners than losers. Philip Green I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time. Norah Jones There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. Alexander Herzen I like funny things, but I don't find myself p...

of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good. Martin Scorsese My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished. Dougray Scott It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day. Samantha Fox It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it. Tommy Lee Jones I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters. Alan Ball I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi. Joss Whedon The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history. Rand Paul I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consci...

look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa. Jada Pinkett Smith I'm a great believer in outlines. Tom Wolfe If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory. Miguel de Unamuno I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else. John Polkinghorne What you can do is a matter of what you will do. Colin Ford Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa. George Ayittey Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve. Arne Jacobsen G...

my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us. Jeremy Paxman Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character. Arnold Palmer The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that. Nicholas D. Kristof I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains. Richard Griffiths What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural. Chris O'Dowd I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it. Serena Williams I've been performing on stage since I was six years old. Jewel Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing som...

and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen. James Spader In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation. Doutzen Kroes Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero. Alex Steffen I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.' Garrett Hedlund Apparently I'm not a pro cyclist. Jon Cryer I'm always followed by two or three cars and have police around. Even walking in the park, you see them taking photos behind the bushes and trying to videotape everything. Ai Weiwei This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no...

I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on. Vikram Seth For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids. Jessy Schram For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much. Hilary Mantel I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act. Jurgen Habermas I've got a serious-looking head. Daniel Day-Lewis I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah. Phil McGraw One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail. David By...

that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. Karen Armstrong We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science. James D. Watson There's lots of things you pull out lipstick for. L'Wren Scott My apartment looks like no one lives in it. Michael Kors I don't come from money. Christina Ricci And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something. Elizabeth Olsen I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. Whitney Houston I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action. Cesar Millan Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy. Jules Shear

similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives. Adam Hochschild The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped. Stanislav Grof We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball. Bill Walton Before redeye flights, I drink copious amounts of herbal brews to help me relax and fall asleep after takeoff. Ruzwana Bashir It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage. Taryn Manning I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing. Jack Nicho...

As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others. Patrick Rothfuss I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution. AnnaLynne McCord The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion. Pope Shenouda III When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class. Michelle Pfeiffer I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up. Bobby Bonilla Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water. Frida Giannini No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. Plato Feeling a little blue in January is norma...

had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister. Eric Dickerson The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.' Sarah Paulson There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. Michael Ignatieff I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right. Jason Mraz I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.' Emma Roberts Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. Bertrand Russell Well...

them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio. Orson Welles Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes. Jeffrey Archer I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities. Ben Stiller As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing. Evander Holyfield I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself. Jeff Bridges Nobody does animation better than Disney; it's just that some of us wanted out of the box. Burton was one. I was another. We were the mutual complaint society. Henry Selick Our manifesto, whatever it will be called, will come from the people who are really ...

control over it. I'm not one of those people who says, 'I've got to write a song every day.' I just store up ideas, and really I have to wait until it finds me; I know when I'm ready to write. It used to frustrate me, but it doesn't any more. It's just how it is. Paul Weller You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy. Larry Dixon It's not easy to define poetry. Bob Dylan I'm going to fight again because this wasn't a fight. Thomas Hearns Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. Chinua Achebe There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can. Rocco DiSpirito I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer. Jon M. Chu Win or lose...

the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me. Arthur Smith It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers. Janis Ian There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love. Lukas Foss My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work. Lexa Doig I have no inclination to seek attention. John Scarlett But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together. Leroy Chiao My mother loves me and everything goes well. I hav...

they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back. Billy Crystal It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now. Barbara Hershey There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. Miguel de Cervantes God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle. Giacomo Casanova I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day. Rachel Stevens I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end. Kate Atkinson I'm not going chic, ...

they need to understand that it's not just about how we look, it's about who we are. And I am going to tell you like this, 'If you can't love me with short hair, and you telling me I got to have long hair to be loved, guess what, I ain't the one for you.' Jada Pinkett Smith The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. William Booth My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. John le Carre No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer. Jonathan Raban Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on. Sydney Carter Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it. Ellen Pompeo There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. Jeane Kirkpatrick When my girl...

of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge. Eric Burdon My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made. James Agate When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places. Seth MacFarlane I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't. Pitbull I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely. Joseph Jackson I'm the guy that stands out in all the crowds, so I don't get out there and dance, but I can dance. Tracy McGrady Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it. Diane Sawyer L.A.'s alwa...

saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets. Vince Vaughn I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command. Billy Sunday I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that. Miranda Cosgrove If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve. Jello Biafra A nation can't get strong on political pablum. Richard Lamm Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures. W. Edwards Deming I don't believe in colleges and universities. Ray Bradbury All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. Tennessee Williams The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts. Alfred Lord Tennyson

room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m. Ellen DeGeneres I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. Lady Gaga With 'Twilight,' I felt the actors needed to be up-and-coming artists that haven't been recognized yet. Stephenie Meyer Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete. Charlie Ergen I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up. Jesse Owens I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic. Rebel Wilson There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic. John Woo Love i...

them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social. Joss Whedon I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly. Adam Lambert Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again. Jhonen Vasquez If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now. Roger Moore I never sing in the shower. It's very dangerous. Jimmy Fallon Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi. Patricia Marx When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it...

longer. I think everybody really does understand that, and it's going to require all of us - those who are the most fortunate among us - but it's really going to require every American to contribute to a solution. Kent Conrad God is gracious enough to let us know, in due time while we're here and the fact that I'm still around and I'm still singing, it is really to his glory. Gladys Knight Hip-hop is a vehicle. Talib Kweli Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day. Garry Trudeau If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die. Claudette Colbert When I see someone who has responsibilities, most of the time I can pinpoint that person because of the way he carries himself. Eric Ripert Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world. Stephen Hawking I started as a print reporter. Jim Lehrer I think that carrying on a lif...

All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies. Lynne Truss Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. Richard Brinsley Sheridan My Web site, everything I write in there is from me. Fred Durst The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere. George Meredith I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way. Naguib Mahfouz When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends. Kim Wilde I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting. Kenny Rogers Well, being a Canadian, I love S...

There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next. Joe Perry I'm a holy man minus the holiness. E. M. Forster Play because it's fun, and not to become a pro. If your goal is to become pro, the best way to realize that is by loving what you do. Steve Nash I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity. Joseph Lister If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. Jackie Chan Archery requires very sensitive muscles. Im Dong-Hyun Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world. Constance Baker Motley I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward. Felicity Jones Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery. Stendhal

hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy. Jefferson Han I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it. Morgan Freeman Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive. Tommy Lee Jones I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation. Christian Slater I love people who have goals. Somebody who's passionate about life and does their own thing. Amanda Bynes Climatologi...

as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English. Michael Gove My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened. Warren Christopher There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time. Benoit Mandelbrot Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation. Irving Azoff Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first. Liev Schreiber Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. Ovid When I gain a pound it's in the headlines. Kim Kardashian I did not, like my children and p...

I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers. Mindy Kaling My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life. Malvinder Mohan Singh My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places. Joel Osteen Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do. Aaron Peirsol In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence. Carl Spitteler When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire. John Webster My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand. Liz Phair I sit in ...

am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot. Natasha Richardson I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note. Jim Evans I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots. Nolan Bushnell I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free. Theresa May I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't. Jennifer Jason Leigh New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues. Helen Clark I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the tim...

of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play. Feist If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America. Eric Liu I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my work and hopefully it speaks for itself. Bruce Weber I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend. Jessica Hahn The design of a city is like a strange archeology. Jaime Lerner The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories. Rebel Wilson People get devalued in ...

with a twist that makes it contemporary. I think he's done a great job of it. I think Katy Perry has undeniable songs for what she does, for that pop market. And, if we're talking in the truly pop market, I would say those two. Kara DioGuardi I don't know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who's better than the other person shouldn't be part of why we're doing this job. It should be about entertaining people. Anna Paquin My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University. James Cronin I used to work at a puppy nursery. Channing Tatum I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing. Kristin Chenoweth Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep. Sean Parker I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm no...

always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years. Gunter Grass I love going to the G4 sci-fi-type parties. Kunal Nayyar The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books. Judy Blume Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken. Ferdinand de Saussure Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. Mitch Daniels Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth. Wilford Brimley Live fast, die young. Ed Westwick I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom. Jean Paul Gaultier I was good at math and science, and I ...

eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches. J. R. Moehringer Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. Danny Glover Maybe it is the media that has us divided. Laura Bush I like kissing people because it's funny. Casey Abrams What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything. Sergei Bubka I resent all organised religions. Richard Eyre An audience shouldn't listen with complacency. Peter Maxwell Davies I don't take life so seriously... I can just play with life. Eric Cantona When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27. Sid Waddell

to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that I've practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and it's something I take pride in being able to do. Avicii Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected. Fiona Apple As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands. Jack Markell My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture. Leonard Nimoy If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it. Paul Bryant There is no rivalry between Google and traditiona...

I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes. I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated. Erin Morgenstern Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure. James Wolcott I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother. Mary MacLane With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues. Sergio Aragones I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale. Tom Paulin I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome. Kristen Stewart Look, there ought to be politics in politics. Kar...

was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it. Ben Okri It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name. Samuel Alexander I've been so lucky - I worked with Jason Reitman twice, who has always been a really strong advocate for my voice, and has always really respected the scripts that I've brought him and is just the coolest. Diablo Cody For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested. Neil deGrasse Tyson Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life. Tea Leoni I've always loved fantasy. I think it's a great way to look at issues that we have ...

has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan! Mindy Kaling I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies. George Saunders I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years. David Boies My greatest fear is speaking in public. Jennifer Love Hewitt Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all. Tom DeLay Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay. David Korten I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much. Brian Johnson You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great p...

is the best and fastest way to connect with fans who really appreciate you but I'm still not cool with it - although I am trying! I try my best but I'm a one-on-one person and I don't want to tell people I'm on the toilet or I just brushed my teeth. Nicole Scherzinger When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected. David H. Koch At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure. Jamaica Kincaid When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention. Guy Spier In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine. Stephen Cole Kleene Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Thomas Mann Ev...

that have lived in Arizona or in southern California, we have a very diverse population. The Hispanic population has been part of all of our lives since we've been born here or since we've grown up here. Jan Brewer It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald's, that they are... attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we're talking right now... it seems that you're saying they need to make more responsibility. Maria Bartiromo It's taken me a long time to get back into the industry. People were not really open to me working, or being a part of the industry. David Caruso Bob Dylan is great. I've been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a guitar they just think, 'Bob Dylan!' Jake Bugg I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire. Alan Kulwicki Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life. Wallace Shawn For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, someti...

we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms. Al Kaline My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever. Isabel Lucas Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption. Kathleen Battle Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like. Phillip E. Johnson I've always known I wanted a family. Charlize Theron The biggest risk to Quebec isn't sovereignty. It is staying in Canada. Pauline Marois I love the sassy skinnies; that's what I usually wear. Jenna Ushkowitz Good comedy is ageless. Ted Levine There are certain things women are better at than men. Adam Carolla

was the pinnacle, that was the moment. I never thought I would be there. And I keep having moments like that where you just stop and say, wait a minute - how is this still going up? I'm waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under me. Stephenie Meyer And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we're very fortunate. Alex Lifeson The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free. Dana Carvey Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy. Marie Windsor President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is. Yousef Munayyer Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well... I was just fortunate to be...

hour and it had derailed. Someone, I can't remember who, showed me a newspaper photograph of the carriage we had been sitting in tilted on its side on a station platform next to a large notice that said Welcome to Potters Bar. Nina Bawden I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue. Billy Graham My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister in, and then we'd sometimes just sit and watch the movie again. James McAvoy It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult. Jarvis Cocker The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. Alan Ball I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to...

also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously. Catherine O'Hara Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. Thomas Huxley It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you. Kevin Smith I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing. Judith Rossner I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice. Joey Dunlop The fact is safe co-sleeping is not difficult. The notion of babies being smothered is simply not true. And the benefits of sleeping together are profound. Mayim Bialik The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life. Abraham Cahan I've been so busy I haven't had a chance t...

job to be critical, but I certainly enjoy the involvement I have with my fans. I enjoy the time I get to spend with them, and I don't waste time with someone stubborn who is not going to come around. John Cena You can't go east and west at the same time. Jean Charest In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen. Jacky Ickx Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides. William Ernest Henley When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied. Pierre Corneille I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love, everything at the same time. Thomas Langmann A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and ...

to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective. Kali Hawk One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie. Jayson Blair Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer. Kent McCord I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station. Jon Postel Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for. Mary Lou Retton Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not ...

was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to! Richard Fleeshman The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself. Mariel Hemingway With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy. Hjalmar Schacht I liked things better when I didn't understand them. Bill Watterson I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing. Terry Eagleton I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing. Gary Clark, Jr. The next time I cry about gol...

like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive. David Graeber Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop. Jay-Z The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves. Niklas Zennstrom I believe in angels, so it's simple. Isabelle Adjani My first love was basketball. Stan Smith Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world. Malcolm X If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me? Mike Tyson I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training. Jackie Joyner-Kersee I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis....

- and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them? Jason Reitman My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong. Booboo Stewart Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar. Max Weber Boston is the engine of the state's economy. Thomas Menino Every band I've come across has read more than I have. Marcus Mumford All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of. William Shatner Diva has a negative connotation. Glenn Close If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it. Levon Helm Growing up, I was...

crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes. David Remnick Working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs. Hilary Rosen Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them. Forest Whitaker There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets. Thomas More To live alone is the fate of all great souls. Arthur Schopenhauer I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it. Kevin Pietersen Russia is the only place where men and women can be free. James Larkin Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out. Clare Boothe Luce I like a good mono track, it...

to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country. Lev Grossman I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds. Jasper Johns To say more, is to say less. Harlan Ellison You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it. Robert Benchley I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it. Jack Kent Cooke No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired. Romano Prodi You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. Mos Def The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. Barry Eichen...

and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time. Walter Payton I'll always build houses. Jeremy Renner How about keyboards in your mouth? How fast can you type with your tongue? People will think you're just masticating, when you're really talking to your girlfriend. Nolan Bushnell A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest. Paul Simon I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career. Dabney Coleman It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself. Herodotus It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be. Tom Daschle One of the hardest things for me, now that I...

world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken. Cameron Sinclair The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset. John Scarlett I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up. Glenn Frey When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident. Natalie Coughlin R&B is never going to be dead, it's just going to evolve. Keith Sweat I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions. Jim Jeffords Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience. Kris Carr To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way peopl...

stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.' Bruce Dickinson I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes. Martin Scorsese Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin. Tom Barrett Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks. Martin Gore It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka. Nicole Polizzi Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality. Michael Sheen You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course. Carlos Ghosn I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do. Garret Dillahunt Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promu...

into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. Anne Lamott I'm such a sucker for love and I believe in it and I always want it to win. Sophia Bush I don't know if I'm a national education figure. Jeb Bush Canadians have this weird way about them where we really stick together. Estella Warren I love biker chicks! Paz de la Huerta In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them. Todd Solondz I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books. Mark Z. Danielewski When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves. David Horowitz And I d...

they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen. Gary Vaynerchuk Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth. Bono I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. William H. Gray We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do. Courtney Love I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do! Charles Hazlewood Some people were offended by a show about cougars. Courteney Cox As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy. Julie Bowen Filmmakers tell stories to explore human...

it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means. Steven Pinker When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons. Luke Evans Well, the thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers. Vanessa Minnillo Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward. Marilyn vos Savant I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency. Tatiana Maslany Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do. Leven Rambin Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who over...

of my career, so I'm not practiced in that. Usually, when you want to be an actor, you take whatever comes along. If there's an audition, you go for it. If you get the job, you do it - just to get experience, to act, to meet people. Ken Leung I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people. Pat Boone You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football? Andres Iniesta I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going. Michael Nesmith Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. Robert Benchley A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country. Chief Joseph I respect Everest very much. Anatoli Boukreev I enjoy playing characters where the silence is l...

assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself. Kate Dickie When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it. Mark Victor Hansen Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood. Elizabeth McGovern I don't know what pressures there are these days. Trevor McDonald I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should. Sting I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to. Andrew Scott I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through. Keith Waterhouse People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of ...