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“A lot of the things that Trump needs to do to be a popular president requires annoying his biggest fans.”

Needs President Fans Trump Annoying Biggest Fan

“A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.”

“A lot of the things that we passed in the energy policy were embedded in law, and they resulted in tremendous reductions in waste of energy in all kinds of things.”

Kind Law Energy Policy Waste All Kinds In-laws Reduction Embedded Energy Policy

Author:Jimmy Carter

“A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.”

Thinking America Differences Class Class Differences

Author:Terry Gross

“A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.”

Years Ideas Able Lasts Directors Structure Democratic Including National Intelligence

Author:Jane Harman

“A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.”

World Different Dependent

Author:Bill Gates

“A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.”

Thinking Obstacles Spending Spending Time Questionable Biggest Obstacles

Author:Ai Weiwei

“A lot of the time I hate acting. It has a lot to do with the way I was brought up in a world where showing your emotions is frowned upon. It's just not manly. I don't do anything in life because I love doing it. It's because I want to be good at it.”

World Way Want Hate Acting Emotion I Hate Be Good Manly Anything In Life

Author:Matthew Fox

“A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.”

Thinking Hate I Hate Theater Scary Climbs Tonight Everest Mount Everest Climbing Mount Everest

Author:Alan Rickman

“A lot of the time I tend to overlook the music because I'm listening to how it's produced.”

Listening Music Is

Author:Adam Beyer

“A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.”

Thinking Moments Past Missing Present Moment Sacraments Thinking About The Past

Author:R. D. Laing

“A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.”

Bits Insane

Author:Joe Strummer

“A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.”

People

Author:Abigail Breslin

“A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.”

Stories Animation

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.”

Play

Author:Chali 2na

“A lot of the time in my recurring dreams, before I was diagnosed, iconic people would either be good or evil figures. I remember dreaming really basic stuff like trying to navigate the London underground, but then Paul Newman would be the only one who would direct me to the right trains. And I'm trying to remember who would direct me to the wrong ones.”

People Trying Dream Remember Evil Direct Train Be Good Iconic Newman

Author:Emma Forrest

“A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.”

People Needs Feels Humans Heart Kind Air Arms Music Is Excuse

Author:Marcus Mumford

“A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.”

Happens Things Happen

Author:Nate Silver

“A lot of the time people don't even know what they want until they see something new.”

People Knows Want Something New Want U

Author:Katy Perry

“A lot of the time the experts, the people who are supposed to be able to tell you what to do, will tell you that you can't do something even when you know you can. And a lot of the time it's your friends ... who tell you you can do it.”

People Knows Able Can Do Supposed To Be Experts Graduation You Can Do It

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.”

Thinking Film Scripts Agents Choose Me

Author:Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

“A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.”

Melancholy

Author:Will Champion

“A lot of the time when I go to church, people want to take pictures. They want you to sign autographs. So I don't go all the time. I go once in a blue moon. Every once in a blue moon.”

People Want Church Moon Blue Autographs Blue Moon

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.”

Feels Writing Persons New York

Author:Lana Del Rey

“A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.”

People Lasts Forever Stage Married Inevitable Infatuation

Author:Tamera Mowry

“A lot of the time when you're doing your own work, it's all in your own head, which can be frustrating if you're prepping for something, especially an audition where it's all in your brain and you go in and no one else has seen it and you don't really know how it fits.”

Ifs Knows Brain Know How Fit Working It Auditions Frustrating

Author:Ed Speleers

“A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.”

Trying Years Kind Children Feelings Might Kids Age Actors Grows Growing Up Adults Hanging Out Presentation Poise Child Actors

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.”

Mind Book Helpful Sponges

Author:Marcus Mumford

“A lot of the time you have good fighters with good records, some top-class fighters, and they do some kind of crazy stuff, and there's nothing that you can do to stop them from doing it. That's the hardest part of training others.”

Kind Crazy Training Fighter Good Fight

Author:Ann Wolfe

“A lot of the time you just have to follow your creative muse and do what you think is best for the story.”

Thinking Stories Creative Muse

Author:Rick Remender

“A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.”

Ifs Looks Littles Bits Little Bit Intention

Author:Vik Muniz

“A lot of the time you see a warning, in the subway, or in a movie theater, the main thrust of the warning will be to not panic if there is an emergency. To listen to directions. Now that's a waste. They could have given you information, but you can see their expectation that you're going to screw up.”

Ifs Given Information Waste Expectations Theater Warning Panic Screws Emergencies Thrust Subway Screw Ups Movie Theater

Author:Amanda Ripley

“A lot of the time, because of the polar bears you're not allowed to go outside the door without your hunting rifle, even if it's to go to the local shop. The polar bears will come from nowhere, and you'll be eaten alive.”

Ifs Alive Doors Bears Locals Shops Hunting Rifles Polar Bears

Author:Richard Dormer

“A lot of the time, I won't read the script until my second or third audition just 'cause a lot of the scripts are the same and the characters are the same.”

Character Causes Thirds Scripts Auditions

Author:Kay Panabaker

“A lot of the time, I write a lot of angry stuff, but then I don't want to be a finger-pointer - I'd rather be a cheerleader than a judge. I don't want to preach as if I'm in some position of righteousness, but I do want to speak my mind and scream at the clouds and shout out of the pit of hopelessness that I sometimes think the human race is in.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Mind Humans Sometimes Speak Stuff Race Position Judging Angry Fingers Clouds Human Race Righteousness Scream Hopelessness Pits Cheerleader Pointers Shout Out

Author:Dave Matthews

“A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.”

Enough Smart Unhappy

Author:Carrie Fisher

Source: The Best Awful: A Novel

“A lot of the time, if I have samples, I can't tailor a sample. Or, I might have just bought something and I don't have time to go to the tailor, there are ways to take thin, skinny belts and layer them, and do quick little fixes.”

Ifs Way Littles I Can Might Layers Belts Skinny Sample Tailors

Author:Olivia Palermo

“A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles.”

Past Roles Blonde

Author:Nicky Whelan

“A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.”

People Want Giving Challenges Shots Driven Discouraged

Author:Archie Panjabi

“A lot of the time, the British press make me ashamed and embarrassed to be British. They give others the impression that the British are selfish, envious and bitter people, which is simply not true in my opinion. I think that British people in general are really nice and friendly.”

People Thinking Giving Opinion Nice Presses British Selfish Impression Bitter Ashamed Friendly Embarrassed Really Nice Envious Bitter People

Author:Melanie Chisholm

“A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.”

People Thinking Stills Two Play Three Acting Laughing Week Stage Goes On Bunch Truthful Three Times Making People Laugh

Author:Ben Schwartz

“A lot of the times I'm looking at something that I discover is part of a larger framework and not just a couple jokes. I see that it's a set, a story that I'll be telling. Sometimes I get lost in that.”

Sometimes Stories Lost Couple Jokes Framework

Author:Lewis Black

“A lot of the times once you've finished a scene, the best reaction is to say you don't really remember what happened. I don't really remember what I did or the choices I made.”

Made Remember Choices Happened Scene Finished Reactions

Author:Jessica Biel

“A lot of the times the first take was the best, because the actors are not analyzing themselves as much; they just do it. I believe in happy accidents and I'm not necessarily into actors getting the dialogue exactly as I wrote it; I'm much more into them understanding the motivations and have it come out in a natural way, and maybe catch something that I didn't expect.”

Way Firsts Believe Motivation Actors I Believe Understanding Natural I Believe In Accidents Dialogue Just Do It Analyzing Happy Accidents

Author:Storm Saulter

“A lot of the times we don't see enough of strength. Imagery is obviously a large part of it. I think it's important to see her [Michelle Obama] passion, her complexity, and to see her be challenged. Whether it's about forgiveness, or wanting to do more, it's what it is.”

Thinking Important Enough Passion Complexity Imagery

Author:Tika Sumpter

“A lot of the times when I've auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, 'Sorry, we need a bigger name.'”

Needs America Names Answers Bigger Sorry

Author:Michael Sheen

“A lot of the times you read something and you don't realize that you are going to have to do the things that you read.”

Realizing

Author:Will Ferrell

“A lot of the times, roles are chosen for us.”

Roles Chosen

Author:John Noble

“A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.”

Knows Stuff Drag Airports Touring

Author:Joan Jett

“A lot of the turning points happen in high school and in college, and it defines a lot of how you see the world and how you decide to defend yourself from the world. Some people - their defense mechanism is, I'm really smart or I'm sexy or I'm the leader. And other people - they hide or they make jokes.”

People World Happens School Leader College Smart Jokes High School Sexy Defense Mechanism Turning Points Really Smart Defense Mechanisms

Author:Judd Apatow

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