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“A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.”

Character Childhood Comfortable Lonely Golden Underdog

“A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.”

Knows Book Self Character Delight Destructive Urges Wrong Things Self Destructive

Author:Richard Russo

“A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.”

Feelings Home Age Difficult Memories Childhood Tears Walking Handle Flood Childhood Memories Walking Home

Author:Rachel Stevens

“A lot of my clients say they don't deserve to mope about their sad little memories while children are starving in India. I say that just because your broken arm isn't as serious as someone else's gut wound, that doesn't mean your injury isn't excruciating or doesn't require attention. If you want to help the Indian children, or make the world a better place in any other way, you have to start by becoming whole yourself.”

Ifs World Way Want Mean Children Littles Self Whole Helping Memories Attention Serious Broken Arms Becoming Deserve India Wounds Indian Injury Guts Clients Better Place Starving Becoming Whole

Author:Martha Beck

Source: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

“A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to themselves, "I don't know what he's doing."”

Knows Writing Said Book Ideas Whole Hands Writing A Book Close Friends

Author:Chad Harbach

“A lot of my close friends have committed suicide or died of heroin overdoses.”

Died Suicide Committed Heroin Close Friends Overdose

Author:Ryan McGinley

“A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don't do that.”

Curse Colleagues

Author:Ted Cruz

“A lot of my colleagues are content to be character actors who are always in the background. I'm not that guy. I'm the guy who wants the limelight. Gimme the ball and I'll run it through a brick wall for you. I'll be your biggest soldier.”

Want Character Running Guy Actors Wall Balls Soldier Backgrounds Colleagues Bricks That Guy Character Actors Limelight Brick Wall

Author:Terry Crews

“A lot of my colleagues at school became great friends of mine.”

School Mines Colleagues Great Friend

Author:Jenna Bush

“A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.”

People Has Beens Interest Economics Focused Broads Colleagues

Author:Lars Peter Hansen

“A lot of my colleagues just don't really realize that they have to work in order to get the interest of an audience, especially with young kids, especially because it [classical music] is not that popular. You don't see it on TV, you don't hear it on radio, so you really gotta put an effort into promoting classical music.”

Kids Young Order Interest Realizing Effort Audience Tvs Music Is Radio Colleagues Promoting Classical Music

Author:David Garrett

“A lot of my creative projects are inspired and driven by technology and style. My mission is to recycle as much plastic possible in my lifetime and beyond in the form of high quality products.”

Quality Technology Creative Style Lifetime Inspired Driven

Author:Pharrell Williams

“A lot of my dreams have to do with animals I think because I'm such a huge animal lover. I have so many pets. I always have crazy dreams where I'm like riding an elephant through the jungle or hanging out with a bunch of monkeys.”

Thinking Dream Animal Crazy Huge Lovers Bunch Pet Hanging Out Riding Monkeys Elephants Jungle Animal Love Animal Lover

Author:Paris Hilton

“A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.”

Stories Song Careers Narrative Plot

Author:Rupert Holmes

“A lot of my effort is to get people to talk about gender in a new way and to see that sexism and gender issues are so ingrained in us.”

People Way Effort Issues Gender Sexism New Ways Gender Issues

Author:Jennifer Fox

“A lot of my family is in army and it has always been inspirational for me to see them wearing the prestigious uniforms and their disciplined lifestyle. If I wasn't so passionate about cricket, I would have definitely been a soldier for my country.”

Ifs Country My Family Army Soldier Passionate Lifestyle Uniforms Cricket Prestigious

Author:Shahid Afridi

“A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible.”

Thinking Father Party Generations Members Connections Cards Communism Progressive Communist Communist Party

Author:Anne Waldman

“A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons.”

Artist Fashion My Favorite Icons Fashion Icon Favorite Artist

Author:Theophilus London

“A lot of my fears and anxieties are the fears and anxieties of a six-year-old boy. When I finally confront them, they're really small.”

Years Boys Anxiety Six Six Year Olds

Author:Bill Burr

“A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.”

Film Sides Dark Technology Progress Stress Dark Side Ramifications

Author:Gale Anne Hurd

“A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.”

Ends Artist Parent Difficult Musician My Friends Single Parent

Author:Shirley Manson

“A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.”

People Fit Gay My Friends Clubs Setting Settings Ironic

Author:Randy Harrison

“A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.”

People Wells Interest Levels Type My Friends Yeah Innocent Damage Gangsters No Respect Criminality Collateral Collateral Damage

Author:Charlie Hunnam

“A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.”

Used Guy My Friends Bros Antics

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively.”

Thinking Artist Talent Musician My Friends

Author:Erin Willett

“A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.”

Want Actors Struggle Musician My Friends What You Want Frustrating

Author:Gina Gershon

“A lot of my friends are struggling. A lot of my friends didn't make movies, which was really hard and sad. I'm good friends with this film collective, Red Bucket, which made Daddy Longlegs and The Pleasure Of Being Robbed. They're climbing the walls. They're all making cartoon booklets now, because they can't raise the funds to make another movie. But I think that when it returns, which it hopefully will, there will be another surge of energy.”

Thinking Film Energy Pleasure Struggle Wall Hopefully Fund Good Friend Cartoon Daddy

Author:Greta Gerwig

“A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.”

Made Film My Friends Competition Fewer

Author:Lily Collins

“A lot of my friends do creative things and are doing really well at what they do - some writers, some artists. I'm in a driven circle. I've had a lot of opportunities that other people wouldn't necessarily have and seen some cool places.”

People Wells Artist Opportunity Creative My Friends Driven Circles Cool Places

Author:Charli XCX

“A lot of my friends have been collectors, and I owe a lot to them. I'm always interested in sharing collections and learning that way. I used to trade tapes a lot. I still have a few friends who I trade music with, but it's hard to find the time. I miss that.”

Way Has Beens Stills Hard Used Missing My Friends Trade Collections Tape Collectors Few Friends

Author:Michael Dumontier

“A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it's not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone's body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest.”

People Body Culture Bits My Friends Pops I Realized Maps Tattoo Pop Culture Armor

Author:Christian Louboutin

“A lot of my friends inspire my style, and they dont even know it.”

Knows Style Inspire My Friends

Author:Theophilus London

“A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away.”

World Trying Kind Certain Turns My Own Issues Advice Picks My Friends Very Good Shy Call Me Coming Back Therapists My Own World

Author:Janet Jackson

“A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white-people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with each other, and they were always very supportive of what I was doing. What each of us was doing photographically was entirely different, but we were basically coming from the same place, sort of like a club.”

People Different Black White My Friends Clubs Print Black And White Supportive

Author:William Eggleston

“A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.”

Bigs Lost Strange Grew Grew Up My Friends Scary Brooklyn Manhattan Phobia

Author:Moby

“A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.”

Mother Generations My Generation

Author:Gloria Steinem

“A lot of my girlfriends like baggy oversized stuff and put on menswear already. And I also wanted something that my boyfriends - my gay and straight buddies - could wear. I wanted something for everyone.”

Gay Girlfriend Buddy My Girlfriend My Boyfriend

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“A lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs.”

Inspiration Hair Photograph Makeup Hair And Makeup Old Photographs

Author:Emmy Rossum

“A lot of my hair stylists and my beauty team that I work with are gay so I hang out with gays a lot and I just think they're adorable and hilarious.”

Thinking Team Hair Gay Hanging Out Adorable Stylist Hair Stylist

Author:Britney Spears

“A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.”

Song Inspired My Sister

Author:Dolly Parton

“A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.”

People Thinking I Can Helping Feelings Might Certain Audience Jokes Disbelief

Author:Michael Showalter

“A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.”

Doe Like You Anger Motto My Motto

Author:Courteney Cox

“A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.”

Way Ends Political Change Fixed Establishment Frustrated Idealism Assassination

Author:David Talbot

“A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain.”

Looks Book Ideas Beautiful Space Brain Design My Favorite Architecture Things To Do Interiors Aesthetics Bookstores Favorites Things Interior Design Beautiful Images

Author:St. Lucia

“A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.”

Persons Identity About Family Aboriginal

Author:Shari Sebbens

“A lot of my inspiration comes from the movies and TV, watching other people doing things that I one day hope to have the opportunity to do.”

People Inspiration Opportunity Tvs One Day

Author:Robbie Amell

“A lot of my inspiration comes from the movies and TV, watching other people doing things that I one day hope to have the opportunity to do. The other sides would be my friends and family, people who have supported me and always been there for me. I want to do a good job for them and show them they were right for believing in me.”

People Want Believe Shows Inspiration Would Be Jobs Opportunity Sides Tvs One Day My Friends Family And Friends Good Job

Author:Robbie Amell

“A lot of my inspiration is reactionary to images I see in the media.”

Inspiration

Author:Pieter Hugo

“A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.”

World Different Dues Preparation Wrestling Intensity Different Worlds

Author:Dan Gable

“A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.”

People Giving Years Has Beens Matter Young Joy Race Color Dancer Awards Creeds Terrific Violinist

Author:Sally Kirkland

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