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“A lot of times, Im singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.”

“A lot of times, in film and TV, they just want you to play yourself. But, when you're someone who's more of a character actor, you get to experience what it feels like to play a bunch of different kinds of people. I find it more invigorating than challenging. I definitely trust the writers to give me the material that I will take and turn into the person that I'm playing.”

People Giving Kind Different Character Film Challenges Different Kinds

Author:Carrie Preston

“A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision.”

Political Decision Producers Political Decisions

Author:Reggie Watts

“A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.”

Wells Wanted Perfect Careers Pressure

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“A lot of times, it gets weird when some guy is playing your dad. It feels weird to you. It feels like they're forcing sentiment. It's disgusting.”

Feels Guy Dad Sentiments Disgusting Your Dad

Author:Kristen Stewart

“A lot of times, it's easy to trim the movie 'cause you just start losing things that you thought would be there just for amusement's sake that actually are not funny. My favorite part of the process is seeing it with an audience. I do about eight previews to see how things are working.”

Would Be Causes Easy Process Audience Seeing Losing Sake My Favorite Eight Amusement Preview Losing Things

Author:Judd Apatow

“A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?”

People Trying Doe Musician Jazz Genre Educate Jazz Music Jazz Musician

Author:Robert Glasper

“A lot of times, just because people are different, they're judged. I try not to let that concern me. But sometimes it can be hurtful, because I do feel judged sometimes for being a little different.”

People Feels Trying Littles Different Sometimes Concern Judged Hurtful

Author:Erin Davie

“A lot of times, kids go to college and take a major because they do what they think they're supposed to do. I told them I believe 90 percent of America gets up in the morning and drives to a job they hate. That could have happened to me in the hotel industry.”

Thinking Believe Kids Jobs America Hate I Believe Morning Happened College Industry Majors Percent Get Up Hotel

Author:Dana White

“A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.”

Downtown Cement Freeways

Author:Dan Gilroy

“A lot of times, magazines end up presenting me as some type of weirdo, but I make my music for everyday people.”

People Ends Type Everyday Magazines Presenting Weirdo Time Magazine

Author:Christopher Owens

“A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.”

Independent Critics Mainstream

Author:John C. Reilly

“A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'”

Years Winning Watches Lists Oscars Top 10

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“A lot of times, our guides are at the same level that we are at spiritually. We are their jobs, and they are growing through our life experiences. People have this illusion that their guides are all-knowing and all-wise, and why would we need God if we have our guides?”

People Ifs Needs Jobs Levels Knowing Wise Our Lives Growing Illusion Guides Life Experience Need God

Author:Echo Bodine

“A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.”

People Ifs Feels Persons Hurt Responsibility Advantage Forgiving Taking Responsibility

Author:Joyce Meyer

“A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days we live in.”

People Three Strange Months Forgotten Albums Three Months Strange Days

Author:Matt Smith

“A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'”

People Joy Responsible

Author:Joyce Meyer

“A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.”

People Ifs Giving Hard Cases Hard Work Giving Up Messages Work Out Never Giving Up

Author:Dan Scanlon

“A lot of times, people say that people read to escape. But I think if you come from any community that is underrepresented, in any kind of media, whether that's around race, around class, or sexual orientation, religion, whatever it may be, sometimes you read to be affirmed. To have your humanity rendered complexly. And sometimes seeing yourself on the page is affirming. And we know that for some young people, that can also be life-saving.”

People Thinking Kind Sometimes Humanity Community Affirming

Author:Sofia Quintero

“A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.”

People Forget Week Email

Author:James Altucher

“A lot of times, people think they're the only ones that feel a certain way.”

People Thinking Way Feels Certain

Author:Carrie Fisher

“A lot of times, rather than helping people with horse problems, I'm helping horses with people problems.”

People Helping Problem Horse Helping People

Author:Buck Brannaman

“A lot of times, some of my best ideas happen when I'm running. That's when I do my best thinking.”

Thinking Ideas Happens Running

Author:Apolo Ohno

“A lot of times, that asshole behavior is a cover for deep insecurities, and sometimes the deeper the insecurities, the bigger the asshole.”

Sometimes Behavior Bigger Deeper Insecurity

Author:Tommy Dewey

“A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.”

Littles Song Choices Alive Scene Flats

Author:Alan Ball

“A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least.”

Care Scripts

Author:Kevin Bacon

“A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.”

Positive

Author:Spike Lee

“A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.”

Want Opening Weekend

Author:Josh Radnor

“A lot of times, we're waiting for God to do what God is waiting for us to do.”

Waiting Waiting On God

Author:Steve Arterburn

“A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.”

Hard Success Artist Certain Grows Sound Style Band Hard Times Congratulations Breaking Promises Breaking Away

Author:Matt Cameron

“A lot of times, when doing the paranormal research and doing an investigation, you don't know what you're going to encounter. You don't know what you're going to come up against. People have to realize that we don't know them and they don't know us. I'm talking about the people that live in the homes. Sometimes you don't know what you're going to encounter, what type of situation you're going to walk into.”

People Sometimes Home Realizing Situation Paranormal

Author:John Zaffis

“A lot of times, when I'm approaching pre-production and my job, and trying to research and work on the script and whatnot it's always different.”

Trying Different Jobs Research Scripts Productions

Author:Logan Lerman

“A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us and it's also not that fun to watch.”

Has Beens Mother Fun Watches Son Daughter Ugly Wide Screens Realistic Mother Daughter Mother Daughter Relationship Mother Son

Author:Dan Fogelman

“A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.”

People Thinking Knows Whole Culture Talking Music Movement Hip Hop Hips Hops Rapper

Author:Afrika Bambaataa

“A lot of times, when people send me books to read - new writers mostly - I find that the book is still in a draft stage and that before it can leave the writer's hands and head to a publisher, it needs about five more revisions. Some people don't want to do that.”

People Want Needs Stills Book Hands Five Stage Publishers Revision

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“A lot of times, when you have a disability, one of the things you deal with is other people's projections of what your experience is and their fear about it, and not seeing the experience you're having. There's nothing horrifying about it to me. It is what I deal with. It is my reality and my life, but it's not horrible.”

People Reality Deals Seeing Disease Horrible Disability Projection Parkinson Parkinson's

Author:Michael J. Fox

“A lot of times, when you start a show at a young age, you get stuck. You get six years of high school, but I didn't have that.”

Years Shows Age School Young Six High School Stuck Young Age

Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“A lot of times, when you're acting, you have to explain things to the audience, and it's boring work to do that. It's really hard to make that interesting. I like the discovery of characters. I think people are smart. Audiences are intelligent and can figure things out by just watching behaviors.”

People Thinking Character Interesting Acting Audience Behavior Smart Intelligent Boring

Author:Andie MacDowell

“A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.”

Thinking Done Seeing Products

Author:Ben Schnetzer

“A lot of times, when young guys come up, you think you don't have to work as hard because the talent is going to get you as far as you need to go. But as you get older, it's not that way. An injury is really a wake-up call and a slap in the face that maybe you were slacking a bit, and don't let it happen again.”

Thinking Way Needs Hard Happens Faces Young Guy Bits Talent Wake Up Come Up Injury Slap Wake Up Call Young Guys Slap In The Face Slacking

Author:Kerry Wood

“A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!”

Ifs Men Different Common Faults Work Out Complaining Common Denominator Different Relationships

Author:Karrine Steffans

“A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.”

Men Wells Perspective Regard Males

Author:Morris Chestnut

“A lot of times, working in stand up, youre by yourself ,and so you just have to rely on yourself only but I like working in an ensemble.”

Rely Ensemble Rely On Yourself

Author:Josh McDermitt

“A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think it's better to write as small as you can, to start scenes with little personal details or people who are doing average every day human things. That, to me, lets the average reader into that person's life. "Yeah I eat breakfast. I take a shower."”

People Thinking Writing Humans Littles Persons Bigs Reader Scene Yeah Average Details Breakfast Showers Untrue

Author:Don Winslow

“A lot of times, you beat a person who beat a person who can beat you. I mean, it doesn't make any sense.”

Mean Persons Beats

Author:Joe Rogan

“A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something you should be going for.”

Should Design Olympics Timeless Logos Timelessness

Author:Michael Bierut

“A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something you should be going for. Maybe you should be trying to come up with something that will really become associated with a moment in time, a few weeks, that happened, period. Then you look back, think about it and connect it with that time. It may look dated later but it will be still be evocative.”

Thinking Should Trying Looks May Stills Moments Happened Week Design Periods Come Up Olympics Timeless Moments In Time Logos Timelessness

Author:Michael Bierut

“A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time.”

Feels Watches Creative Environment Like You Walking Ego Eggshells Walking On Eggshells

Author:Tony Hale

“A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.”

Want Jobs

Author:John Hawkes

“A lot of times, you're circling around a lot of things, and then you find that one person, or that little piece of dialogue, and it doesn't always have to be in person.”

Littles Persons Pieces Dialogue That One Person

Author:Nick Kroll

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