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“A lot of singers that I've heard that I may not like their sensibility, but I see that they're entitled to whatever they get. People don't get there without talent, they really don't.”

People May Heard Talent Singers Sensibility Entitled

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“A lot of singers think all they have to do is exercise their tonsils to get ahead. They refuse to look for new ideas and new outlets, so they fall by the wayside... I'm going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do.”

Thinking Trying Looks Ideas Fall Exercise Refuse Singers New Ideas Outlets Get Ahead

Author:Ella Fitzgerald

“A lot of smart young people have come out of Indiana. The smarter they are, the faster they come out”

People Young Smart Faster Smarter Indiana

Author:George Ade

“A lot of sneaker brands come to me, not even just designers. They come to me with ideas trying to push different things, and I want it to be stuff that I feel is organic.”

Want Feels Trying Ideas Different Stuff Brands Designer Different Things Sneakers

Author:Fabolous

“A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.”

People Needs Trying Looks Soul Christian Fine

Author:Juliana Hatfield

“A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.”

Rich Lots Of Money Legislation

Author:Bernard Goldberg

“A lot of social media saved my ass, so I'm totally for it.”

Social Media Social Media Saved Ass

Author:Sky Ferreira

“A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people have different types of disabilities, and you cannot put a code that applies towards everyone - generally, they can be guidelines, but in the long run, interior designers and architects need more education on the subject. That's what's missing.”

“A lot of solo directors have a really strong creative producer with them. Jay and I have less of a need for that because we have each other.”

Needs Strong Creative Directors Producers Solo

Author:Mark Duplass

“A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.”

Soul Spirit Bits Sound Incredibles Lacking Solo Fiery Soulless Spirit And Soul

Author:Jeff Beck

“A lot of songs are derivative of each other.”

Song Derivatives

Author:Tori Amos

“A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.”

Has Beens Hard Song Relate Hard Times Empowering

Author:Nicole Scherzinger

“A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.”

People Helping Inspiration Pain Song Loss Grief Grief And Loss

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.”

Song Crowds Reactions

Author:Little Richard

“A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger.”

Years Said Born Source Birth Studios

Author:Laraine Day

“A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever.”

Years Done Stories Left Products Sponsors

Author:Morley Safer

“A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.”

Giving Littles Guy Careers Comedy Giving Up Stand Up Comedy Just Give Up

Author:Johnny Knoxville

“A lot of stand-up specials for cable are meant to glorify the comedian. They put you in a really beautiful theater, and sometimes they even blow a little smoke in there to make it misty and sweet. They make the guy look like he's a big rock star. But comedy's not really glamorous. It doesn't enhance comedy for it to look good.”

Looks Littles Sometimes Bigs Beautiful Guy Stars Comedy Rocks Sweet Theater Blow Smoke Comedian Rock Star Cables Glamorous Glorify Really Beautiful Misty

Author:Louis C. K.

“A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.”

Humor Stars Sense Of Humor

Author:Kathy Griffin

“A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.”

Different Actors Roles Gay

Author:Rupert Everett

“A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House - are getting away literally with murder.”

House Term White Streets Crime Murder Congress Criminals Horrible Corporate Get Away White House Undermining Dislocation

Author:Jerry Brown

“A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing.”

Film Used Fun Students Couple Directors Picks Agents Graduates Knots Landing Just For Fun

Author:Brian Austin Green

“A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.”

Looks Art Shows Film Students Boring

Author:Max Tundra

“A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular.”

Author:David Johansen

“A lot of stuff I wear I've had since high school.”

School Stuff High School

Author:Mayim Bialik

“A lot of stuff in Wikipedia is not true, and that goes for a lot of people. I sometimes think, "How can that happen?" But Wikipedia is maintained by people, and everybody can add stuff to it.”

People Thinking Sometimes Happens Stuff Add Wikipedia

Author:Roland Emmerich

“A lot of stuff is dark in a way, but unless you're really looking at a situation for what it actually is, it's hard to be hopeful - or meaningless to be hopeful about it unless it's actually based in a real possibility.”

Real Dark Situation Possibility Hopeful Meaningless

Author:Win Butler

“A lot of stuff that I dealt with - music was my serenity, like kind of my safe place, my haven that I would just use in order to really just get away from the things that I saw every day. To kind of erase the things that I saw. So I stayed playing.”

Kind Use Order Stuff Saws Havens Safe Get Away Serenity Erase Safe Places

Author:Kerry James Marshall

“A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.”

Knows Sometimes Stuff Written Rubbish

Author:Agyness Deyn

“A lot of stuff you hear on the radio is like instant hooky pop, but I can't imagine it being covered in the future by other artists. It's really for themselves.”

I Can Artist Stuff Imagine Radio Pops Instant Covered

Author:Andy Bell

“A lot of subjects blend into the same thing: intolerance. When you're a little kid, you don't know that it's going to get better. Your life experience hasn't told you that. I want to protect those people. I want to send out a message and at least try to get that across.”

People Knows Want Trying Littles Kids Subjects Protect Messages Get Better Life Experience Intolerance Little Kid

Author:Michael Buble

“A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.”

Want Knowing What You Want Etc Success In Life Early Death Knowing What You Want Bad Marriage

Author:Charlie Munger

“A lot of superhero stuff now looks great but it's so difficult to read if you don't know how to read comics. I deliberately focus on the story.”

Difficult Focus Superhero

Author:Jamie McKelvie

“A lot of support gets withheld out of fear of awkwardness and misspeaking.”

Support Awkwardness

Author:Carolyn Hax

“A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.”

Young Sex Born Acting Talent Blessed Luck Symbols Right Time Embarrassment Right Place Sex Symbol

Author:Paul Simon

“A lot of talent, a lot of the currency that movies used to have, has spilled over into TV. People talk about TV the way they used to talk about movies and, as much as I hate to say it, the way they used to talk about books.”

People Way Book Used Hate Talent Tvs I Hate Currency

Author:Matthew Specktor

“A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.”

Stills Actors Pay Bills

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“A lot of teams aren't going to let me beat them. I just try to do something each game to help us win. If you do something like that, whether it's a walk or a hit, your numbers will be there by the end of the year.”

Ifs Trying Years Ends Helping Games Winning Walks Numbers Team Beats Let Me

Author:Ryan Zimmerman

“A lot of teams don't think I'm physical, although some do. Some say I can be physical at times, but they don't see the physicality all the time. I tell them, "Do you want a guy who is a knockout artist or do you want a sure tackler?" From what I know, all tackles, big or not, count the same.”

Thinking Knows Want I Can Bigs Artist Guy Team Physicality Knockouts

Author:Rahim Moore

“A lot of teams made a mistake in the NBA draft.”

Made Mistake Team Nba Made A Mistake

Author:Josh Howard

“A lot of teams, I think, are just happy to make the post-season. Here, you have to win.”

Thinking Winning Team Seasons Posts

Author:Derek Jeter

“A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.”

World Technology Standards Innovation Bottom Entrepreneurship Unusual

Author:Iqbal Quadir

“A lot of teenagers, when they're in the business, they want to rebel, because they've been so tied up and stuff. I'm not too tied up. I like to have fun. I just don't see myself getting out of control.”

Want Fun Stuff Teenager Having Fun Rebel Tied Tied Up

Author:Justin Bieber

“A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.”

Stuff Attention Audience Television Assuming Attention Span

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.”

Has Beens Kitchen Thanksgiving Ruined Turkeys Thanksgiving Day Carving Food And Eating Thanksgiving Holiday Funny Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Funny Funny Happy Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Wishes Funny Thanksgiving Day Thanksgiving Turkey Turkeys On Thanksgiving Nice Thanksgiving Turkey Day

Author:Kin Hubbard

“A lot of that I base on, "Is it still going to sound interesting and fresh to me in five years, am I going to be embarrassed by this in five years?" It's easier for me to do stark, moody, pretty stuff, and I have all this pop stuff inside me, but it's a lot more dangerous, and pop is just apt to sound contrived and sort of pedestrian if you're not careful.”

Interesting Dangerous Careful Embarrassed Moody

Author:Mark Linkous

“A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.”

Facts Momentum Linux

Author:Nat Friedman

“A lot of that will depend on who the person is on [Donald] Trump's, you know, right hand side, whether it's [Stephen] Bannon or whether it's [Reince] Priebus.”

Knows Persons Hands Sides Depends Trump

Author:George Stephanopoulos

“A lot of that worked itself out in the recording.”

Author:David Byrne

“A lot of the acting students would do modeling in the arts school, so there were some gorgeous girls, but the cliché in our school was to get either the really emaciated person or the really obese person - which is stupid.”

Persons Art School Girl Acting Stupid Students Gorgeous Modeling Art School Obese

Author:John Currin

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