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“A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.”

Ifs Knows Moving Actors Too Much Cameras Noise Locks Distracted

Author:Meat Loaf

“A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.”

Feels Real Right Now Incredibles Complicated Actresses Fascinating Real Women

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“A lot of actresses like to repeat things over - and I don't once I've been there and done that. I like to see what the next thing is that comes along.”

Done Next Actresses Repeats

Author:Kim Basinger

“A lot of actresses will just go, "I'm 35." And I thought, " I'm not doing that." I like being 40.”

Actresses

Author:Sharon Stone

“A lot of addiction actually ends by age 30 - something like 50 percent of all addictions with the exception of tobacco - and I think a lot of what's going on there is that the self-control areas of the brain are finally developed enough to be able to stop yourself from relapsing or just continuing. There is a maturational aspect to it as well.”

Thinking Wells Ends Self Enough Age Able Brain Percent Areas Aspect Addiction Exception Self Control Continuing Tobacco Age 30

Author:Maia Szalavitz

“A lot of adults are very into Halloween.”

Adults Halloween

Author:Suzanne Smith

“A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.”

Thinking Kids Adults Interfere

Author:Khloe Kardashian

“A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too.”

Ifs Bigs Stuff Wildlife Small Stuff Big Stuff

Author:Patrick Bergin

“A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too. One of the main things we advocate for is for countries to set aside, even if it's fewer places, really big places, so that you can have viable populations.”

Ifs Country Bigs Stuff Population Fewer Wildlife Small Stuff Big Stuff

Author:Patrick Bergin

“A lot of airlines have come and gone.”

Gone Airline

Author:David Neeleman

“A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!”

Powerful Posts Anxious Anchors Alliteration

Author:Albert Brooks

“A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.”

Ifs Way Play Asks Imagine Player Possibility Comfortable Beats What If Terrified Get Over

Author:Fuzzy Zoeller

“A lot of amazing comedians that I've worked with just really follow their instincts and you can't really teach someone comedic timing. And you just kind of have it.”

Kind Teach Instinct Comedian Timing Comedic

Author:Chelsea Handler

“A lot of ambitious code has been written into the law for those and we will have to see if it actually works, if we have another example of a big financial institution going bankrupt.”

Ifs Has Beens Bigs Law Written Example Institutions Financial Code Ambitious Financial Institutions

Author:Robert F. Engle

“A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.”

People Feels Years Kind Has Beens Done America Film Used

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.”

Long Whole Character Actors Method Usa

Author:Norman Jewison

“A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.”

Knows Ideas Fighting Actors Know How Crazy British Accents Drive Me Crazy Always Fighting

Author:Ethan Hawke

“A lot of American companies are now moving into Iraq. Iraq now has Pizza Hut, Subway, Taco Bell and Popeye's fried chicken. So, great, instead of oil for food, we're giving them oil in food.”

Giving Moving Company Iraq Oil Chickens Bells Pizza Subway Huts Tacos Fried Chicken Taco Bell Popeye

Author:Jay Leno

“A lot of American shows don't last for as long as 12 episodes. They get cut after one. But certainly one of the great things about The Office in particular was that there was a beginning, a middle and an end.”

Long Ends Shows Lasts Cutting Middle Particular Office Great Things Episodes

Author:Matt Groening

“A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.”

Results Views Months Built Constitution Compromise Brilliance Wrangling

Author:Bill Vaughan

“A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.”

Doe Happy Endings

Author:Chita Rivera

“A lot of animal experiments consider only commercial interests. We want to ban all animal experiments as soon as possible.”

Want Interest Animal Experiments Bans

Author:Marianne Thieme

“A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is singing it. I think it's good if an artist can represent some kind of culture that they either aspire to ignite, or that they themselves experience.”

Thinking Kind Artist Culture Quality Singing Sinister

Author:Bradford Cox

“A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.”

Ifs Want Country Alternatives Regimes Proven Bin Laden Isms

Author:Irshad Manji

“A lot of arguments happen among religious and non religious people about the question of who's going to hell and who's going to heaven and uh, a lot of times Christians get into this argument by saying 'we have the only way to heaven.' And uh, people often ask me what do I think is the way to heaven. I have a problem when they ask me this question because it assumes that the primary purpose of Jesus' coming and the primary message of Jesus was a message about how to get to heaven.”

People Thinking Way Problem Happens Christian Purpose Asks Jesus Heaven Religious Hell Messages Argument Assuming Primaries Ask Me Going To Heaven Non Religious

Author:Brian D. McLaren

“A lot of artists are good cooks as I'm too, but coming from a culture that was very concerned with food, I was very interested in that from the start. If you're interested in food, you're interested in lots of different aspects of culture. And it's like being interested in the music from a certain area, or writing, or whatever-food is part of that, too.”

Writing Different Artist Culture Concerned Good Cook

Author:Keith Sonnier

“A lot of artists are involved with fabrication. Artists today are making more objects and many of them need the participation of a dealer in order to facilitate and provide support for projects. So that has changed. But I don't know if what it means to be an artist has really changed. I hope that it hasn't.”

Ifs Knows Needs Mean Today Artist Order Support Objects Changed Involved Projects Participation Dealer Facilitate Fabrication

Author:Larry Gagosian

“A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.”

Thinking Kind Art Hard Artist Stupid Really Stupid Shuffling

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.”

People Important Used Artist Concerned

Author:Hilary Rosen

“A lot of artists are scared to do that, they are scared to step out on their own. What am I the super villain of western Canada is that what I am? Is Classified the clean cut, staying true to his roots, hip hop guy from the East coast that stays in his lane and he made it big staying true to what he did and didn't make corny music? Then that is what he is and I am proud of him for that.”

“A lot of artists are such narcissists.”

Artist Narcissist

Author:Kristen Stewart

“A lot of artists are used to their music being reused online and have come to accept and embrace it. You have a generation who go on YouTube and remake and remix music online all the time. They remake and upload songs and videos, and then other people remake the remakes; it just keeps going.”

People Used Artist Song Accepting Generations Goes On Music Is Embrace Video Online Keep Going Youtube Remakes Remix

Author:Girl Talk

“A lot of artists come into the game with a radio record, but they don't establish the fans as fans of their style of music. It's just that they're a fan of that song, and after that song plays out, it's real hard for 'em.”

Real Hard Play Artist Song Games Records Fans Style Radio Ems

Author:Nipsey Hussle

“A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.”

Artist Sound Voice

Author:Narada Michael Walden

“A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.”

Artist Hey You

Author:Joyce Johnson

“A lot of artists give up because it's just too damn hard to go on making art in a culture that by and large does not support its artists. But the people who don't give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity. They've taken into their hearts the idea that there is enough for all of us, that success will manifest itself in different ways for different sorts of artists, that keeping the faith is more important than cashing the check, that being genuinely happy for someone else who got something you hope to get makes you genuinely happier too.”

“A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures.”

Thinking Different Artist Hip Hop Bunch Hips Hops Typical Venture Hip Hop Artist

Author:Kanye West

“A lot of artists have been persuaded into doing whatever they can do to gain attention. The media, of course, will position and promote the worst of them to the front page. The sidewalk to crime becomes the marketing campaign. These artists have seen it work and sell millions and millions of records for other artists.”

Has Beens Artist Courses Can Do Attention Millions Records Worst Media Fronts Crime Position Pages Gains Sells Marketing Campaigns Sidewalk Marketing Campaigns

Author:Chuck D

“A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.”

Years Artist Supportive

Author:Al Yankovic

“A lot of artists just put on the people they can make money off of.”

People Artist Making Money

Author:Donnis

“A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.”

Years Art Artist Dies Five Ten Five Years Fifteen

Author:Doseone

“A lot of artists need structure.”

Needs Artist Structure

Author:Ryan McGinley

“A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.”

People Political Artist

Author:Holly Near

“A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.”

Stories Bigs Moving Artist Break Poet Novelists Short Story Break Through Story Writers

Author:Gary Reilly

“A lot of artists still will not get that far. And get that far and be as successful. So, it's a great thing for me, and hopefully I can make it to number 10. And then I would want to start managing other artists, 'cause I think the best manager is an artist, his, or herself, that has been in the business and been successful and knows the ins and outs of the business.”

Thinking Knows Want Has Beens Stills I Can Artist Causes Numbers Successful Great Things Hopefully Managers Best Manager Number 10

Author:Ginuwine

“A lot of artists talk about getting out of their comfort zones and being the most proud of their newest album. But it is true for me. I rethought a lot of what I do.”

Artist Proud Comfort Albums Zone Comfort Zone

Author:Michael Buble

“A lot of artists that I've met let me know they're huge fans of mine.”

Knows Artist Fans Mines Huge Mets Let Me

Author:DMX

“A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.”

Thinking Want Mind Real Artist Strong Rooms Creativity Leaving Bitter

Author:David Lynch

“A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.”

Writing Use Artist Memories Poet Brilliant Prose Songwriters Using Me

Author:Paul McCartney

“A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the possibility to get a studio if you had the money to build it. It also gave you the possibility to make your living by making official art and then you would get a lot of "official" commissions: portraits, paintings, murals, etc.”

Ifs Art Artist Possibility Painting Members Unions Paint Studios Artistic Officials Etc Portraits Brushes Mural

Author:Ilya Kabakov

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