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“A lot of time, the music reflects reality, which reflects music.”

Author:LeCrae

“A lot of time, with stories, I'll start out with a title and try to dream myself into the story that it evokes - a kind of subconscious exercise in which I'm trawling for some kind of entryway into fiction.”

Trying Kind Stories Dream Fiction Exercise Titles Subconscious Evoke

Author:Dan Chaon

“A lot of times [in the movie industry], women are relegated to playing the wife or girlfriend or daughter.”

Wife Industry Daughter Girlfriend Movie Industry

Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“A lot of times being "completely objective" means seeing the world through a patriarchal eye.”

World Mean Eye Seeing Objectives Seeing The World

Author:Marisa Tomei

“A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films.”

Kind Film Actors Easy Black Boxes Stuck Limitation Urban Taxi Easy To Get

Author:Tyrese Gibson

“A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.”

People Character Watches Combination

Author:Taraji P. Henson

“A lot of times females are in charge because they kind of have the pussy power. If they say, "I'm you're prostitute," then they mean, "I'm the power."”

Ifs Kind Mean Female Pussy

Author:Lykke Li

“A lot of times girls think they're funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to be funny, you have to be willing to get ugly.”

Ifs Thinking Want Girl Willing Ugly

Author:Amy Sedaris

“A lot of times good news happens slowly and bad news happens all at once.”

Optimism

Author:John Green

“A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.”

Involved Listeners Pristine

Author:Moby

“A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.”

Inspirational Littles Bits Player Easier Basketball Little Bit Height Standing Out Basketball Player

Author:Tiger Woods

“A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.”

Men I Can Handle Masculine Handle Me

Author:Brenda Holloway

“A lot of times I did lose yards on a run, but it wasn't for lack of trying.”

Trying Running Loses Nfl Yards

Author:Barry Sanders

“A lot of times I don't know if I trust the director to tell that film's story. Or I think it's inappropriate for a male director to tell a female story, or a white director to tell a black story. Everyone walks away from a movie differently, because you're relating it to your own life.”

Thinking Black Female Inappropriate

Author:Kiersey Clemons

“A lot of times I feel I probably would have ended up in a mental hospital if it weren't for the structure that 'Bones' gave me.”

Ifs Feels Structure Bones Hospitals

Author:Eric Millegan

“A lot of times I feel like people come up to me because they think I'm like my character in Easy A, or because they've seen me in interviews, but really what they're a fan of is a movie or a character.”

People Thinking Feels Character Easy Fans Come Up Interviews

Author:Emma Stone

“A lot of times I feel like people stick around in a relationship because they feel a primal need to be with that person for whatever reason.”

People Needs Feels Persons Reason Sticks Primal

Author:Gabrielle Dennis

“A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.”

People Way Heart Sports Attitude Talent Blessed

Author:Tom Brady

“A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.”

Giving Opportunity Records Give Me Very Happy

Author:Dexter Gordon

“A lot of times I go to the gym and I see people and they don't know how to work out. There's no routine or anything like that. I saw a guy who I haven't seen in five years and the guy looks the same as he did five years ago.”

People Knows Years Looks Guy Know How Five Saws Havens Years Ago Work Out Five Years Gym Routine

Author:Andre Reed

“A lot of times I had footage that didn't have sound [in the Dream of Life film] - either I didn't bring a sound recorder, or I forgot to turn on the sound recorder - so we would have to improvise and build those scenes.”

Dream Film Turns Sound Scene Turn-on Recorders

Author:Steven Sebring

“A lot of times I had some problems, but I always had the passion and the personal motivation to keep going, to keep working hard, keep fighting for the things that really motivates me. That's all.”

Problem Motivation Fighting Passion Keep Going

Author:Rafael Nadal

“A lot of times I have the song inside of me and I have to fight to get it out. I'm a very visual person, so I can see the song but I can't hear it. But I think that if your music becomes a war for it to happen, in the end there's a certain kind of aggression in the music. And I think that's a lot more interesting.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Kind Persons I Can War Ends Happens Certain Song Fighting Interesting Music Is Visuals Songwriting Aggression

Author:Zola Jesus

“A lot of times I just feel like this is not a special day, these are just clothes that I bought.”

Feels Special Clothes

Author:Iman Shumpert

“A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.”

People Way Persons Easy Stuff Stupid Productive Desks Senior Easy Way

Author:Gabe Newell

“A lot of times I pick passion projects but at the end of the day, I don't think much of what's going to work, I want to think about how it feels to do the work.”

Thinking Want Feels Ends Passion Projects Picks The End Of The Day Going To Work

Author:Eric Roberson

“A lot of times I play a fat woman with cats who has no boyfriends. And in real life, I'm allergic to cats and I've had a boyfriend since college.”

Real Play College Cat Real Life Fats Allergic Fat Women No Boyfriend

Author:Sarah Baker

“A lot of times I play the villain or the comic relief, and I get to kind of play the comic relief to a degree, which is fun, but I also get to say, "You are created in the image in God. You are a perfect child of God. And this part of you is the heart of who you are. You're not alone, and you're okay just the way you are."”

Way Heart Kind Children Play Fun Perfect Degrees Okay Who You Are Comic Relief Villain Not Alone Child Of God Comic Relief Perfect Child

Author:Missi Pyle

“A lot of times I say to myself, "I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometimes." I'm not inventing anything that's going to stop cancer or muscular dystrophy or anything, but I like to feel that my time and talent is always there for the people that need it. When someone do say something negative, most times I think about it, but it don't bother me that much.”

People Thinking Needs Giving Feels Sometimes Talent Negative Give Me Cancer Worthy Bother My Time Compliment Inventing Muscular Dystrophy

Author:B. B. King

“A lot of times I talk to people, they say they don't trust the doctors, they don't trust the hospitals and that kind of stuff. Well, if you go to the hospital, you've got to trust somebody.”

People Ifs Wells Kind Stuff Doctors Hospitals Don't Trust

Author:Larry Hagman

“A lot of times I think people, when they're doing a movie that's a family movie, they're worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird.”

People Thinking Dark Worried Esoteric

Author:Bill Hader

“A lot of times I use live musicians, but I don't want it to have that live funky sound so I'll just take the best loop of a drum part and repeat it over and over and over again so that there's consistency and it feels a little bit more programmed. But I have a love/hate relationship with comping as well.”

Want Feels Wells Littles Use Hate Bits Sound Little Bit Musician Repeats Consistency Love Hate Loops Funky Love Hate Relationship

Author:Solange Knowles

“A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world.”

World Feels Sometimes Film Opportunity Watches Tvs Colorful One Sided

Author:Alicia Keys

“A lot of times I wind up playing songs like (Alice in Chains') "Down in a Hole" that make me scream at the top of my lungs if I want to get frustration out from a bad day.”

Ifs Want Song Wind Holes Chains Frustration Scream Lungs Bad Day Alice In Chains

Author:Bronson Arroyo

“A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.”

Wish Impatient

Author:Tommy Bolin

“A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.”

Knows Feels Would Be Rooms Dad My Dad Nervous Disappointed Auditions Sitcom

Author:Jason Ritter

“A lot of times I'll doodle on something while I'm doing interviews, because sometimes I'm on the phone for three or four hours and I want to get something going. I'll just start from a scribble, or something that someone else already put on the page.”

Want Sometimes Three Hours Four Pages Phones Interviews Scribbles

Author:Wayne Coyne

“A lot of times I'll post things on Facebook, and the immediate response will be like, "Stick to the music!"”

Response

Author:John Flansburgh

“A lot of times I'm on my own trying to find research material and things like that and trying to educate myself on the world and the film that I'm working on.”

World Trying Film My Own Materials Research Educate

Author:Logan Lerman

“A lot of times I'm traveling or have appointments, so I don't get to work out every day, but I try to get to the gym as much as I can.”

Trying I Can Work Out Gym Appointments

Author:Brody Jenner

“A lot of times if you go to counseling you find out the thing we think are big issues to our partner is not near as big as we think it is.”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Issues Partners Counseling

Author:Gabrielle Dennis

“A lot of times if you want to get another agent, agents actually make you do monologues in their offices. They still do that! You've got to come up with something!”

Ifs Want Stills Office Come Up Agents Monologues

Author:Julie Halston

“A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.”

Trying Today Opposites Cinema Sentimental

Author:Keira Knightley

“A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.”

Jobs Lasts Hollywood

Author:Liev Schreiber

“A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.”

Ifs Men Want Turns Women Want

Author:Mike Colter

“A lot of times in movies, you see the "small town" people, being bowled over by this creative entity or this corporate ideal, and it's not true, at all.”

People Creative Ideals Towns Corporate Entity Small Town

Author:John Krasinski

“A lot of times in my short fiction there isn't much dramatized scene - there are a lot of short, interconnected bits, snippets of conversation, continual action, and so on. I frequently rely pretty heavily on voice.”

Action Bits Voice Fiction Scene Conversation Rely Interconnected

Author:Dan Chaon

“A lot of times in parks the large dogs and little dogs separate. That creates the opposite of social. Sometimes dogs run back in forth with a fence dividing them so it is fence fighting with social interaction.”

Littles Sometimes Running Fighting Social Dog Opposites Parks Interaction Fence Dividing Social Interaction

Author:Cesar Millan

“A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind.”

People Mind Looks Eye Bushism

Author:George W. Bush

“A lot of times in spiritual communities, detachment is considered to be an expression of being spiritually evolved when often, we have want and fear around being in relationship with each other.”

Want Spiritual Community Expression Detachment Spiritual Community

Author:Tara Brach

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