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“I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers .”

Knows Way Feels Trying Dream Hands Unity Painter Distinction Comradeship

Author:Clive Barker

“I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.”

Want Littles Light Song Fluffy

Author:Joni Mitchell

“I don't like to make my life like a book.”

Book

Author:Marc Newson

“I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.”

Literature Affair

Author:Karl Kraus

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“I don't like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life and their back stories and all that nonsense, because it never means anything.”

Mean Stories Actors Screens Nonsense Conferences

Author:Woody Allen

“I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.”

Moving Cameras

Author:Stanley Tucci

“I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.”

Thinking May Loses Scene

Author:Antonio Banderas

“I don't like to overcook songs.”

Song

Author:Courtney Barnett

“I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.”

Doe Seems Film Plans

Author:Michael Fassbender

“I don't like to plan anything.”

Plans

Author:Thierry Henry

“I don't like to plan harmonies too much, because there's something fun that happens when you just sing a pass, then sing another pass, and layer them on top of each other.”

Happens Fun Too Much Plans Harmony Layers

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“I don't like to plan. Very often, for me, acting is like loving; it's using the muscle that you use in loving, in that your heart feels open. Physically, you feel open. And so therefore your job is to enter, open, and listen. And see what happens.”

Feels Heart Use Happens Jobs Acting Plans Muscles

Author:Susan Sarandon

“I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up.”

People Play Fronts Crowds Get Up Rip

Author:Angus Young

“I don't like to play characters that are one note, and just the attractive girl in the film.”

Play Character Film Girl Notes Attractive Attractive Girl

Author:Elisha Cuthbert

“I don't like to play favorites, and I do try to spread the ball around. But there's an old rule: You throw to the guys who get open in practice.”

Trying Play Guy Practice Balls Spread Nfl

Author:Peyton Manning

“I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to.”

Ifs Play Rough

Author:Mia Hamm

“I don't like to play slow or softly. I like to play hard. Always.”

Hard Play Play Hard

Author:Adrian Beltre

“I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.”

Play Piano Attractive

Author:Oscar Levant

“I don't like to play the same set every night. I think the band would prefer the same 12 songs, to be honest, but if I get bored, then I think the audience gets bored too.”

Thinking Night Song Audience Honest Being Honest Bored

Author:Wayne Hussey

“I don't like to play the victim.”

Play Victim

Author:Barry Pepper

“I don't like to power trip, but when you're a boss you have to fight for certain things.”

Certain Fighting Boss Power Trip

Author:Kid Cudi

“I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.”

Practice Ahead Of Time

Author:Geraldine Ferraro

“I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.”

Play Practice Week Picks Guitar Spontaneity

Author:Ace Frehley

“I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.”

Jew Acknowledge

Author:Jonathan Ames

“I don't like to put outrageous titles on young guys' heads, but he could be one of the best at that position. All it's going to take are longevity and health. If he has those two things by his side, he'll be one of the best.”

Ifs Two Young Guy Sides Position Titles Two Things Longevity Outrageous Young Guys

Author:Nate Burleson

“I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.”

People Competition Defeat

Author:Michel Gondry

“I don't like to put too much effort into things. I find that once you get involved with special effects it is no longer about what is happening in front of the camera and I really want to concentrate on what is happening in front of the camera, like the man apparently peeing on the surface of the screen.”

Men Want Effort Too Much Special Effects Fronts He Man Involved Happenings Cameras Surface Screens Get Involved Special Effects

Author:Steve McQueen

“I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.”

Can Do Rate

Author:Felix Baumgartner

“I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. I've spoken with a number of young people who weren't even born in 1969, when the first moon landing was made. They've witnessed the first person to fly at faster than speed of the sound without propulsion. These kids are happy to have had such a momentous event in their lifetime.”

People Firsts Persons Made Kids Young Sound Can Do Born Numbers Events Moon Lifetime Rate Speed Faster First Person Landing Moon Landing Propulsion

Author:Felix Baumgartner

“I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.”

Positive Negative Being Positive Chloe

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“I don't like to read anything on the radio for the very first time, because I don't have any notion of a reaction. When I read it out loud, then I get an idea of that, and more of an idea of how to read.”

Firsts Ideas First Time Notion Radio Reactions Loud

Author:David Sedaris

“I don't like to read books where I feel as though I've stepped into the middle of things and don't know what's going on. I like to see characters I've met before, but I don't want to feel left out because I haven't read other books in the series.”

Knows Want Feels Book Character Left Middle Havens Mets Series Left Out

Author:Jude Deveraux

“I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.”

Looks I Can Facts Look Up Nonfiction

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I don't like to read novelizations of movies.”

Author:Christoph Waltz

“I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.”

Thinking Character Situation Novel Novelists Recycling

Author:Frederick Wiseman

“I don't like to read or write about life in its tiring entirety. Most days, months, even years are just filler between those few moments of modest but decisive catastrophe, misfortunes so fittingly flimsy they're almost welcome. The heart doesn't storm that often on its own, so you have to wait for something outside of yourself to get the wrecking ball rolling, and then you're set: you've finally got an impression to make on others - you're in the world distinctly and distinguishable now. It's only by our ravages that we're recognizable to each other at last.”

World Writing Heart Moments Waiting Storm Impression Welcome Misfortunes Modest Catastrophe Tire

Author:Gary Lutz

“I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.”

Reviews

Author:Faith Prince

“I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.”

Internet

Author:Victoria Legrand

“I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.”

People Writing Kids Profession

Author:David Bowie

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“I don't like to reminisce much, and my walls don't have photographs of me and the actors I was with, or any of that stuff... I try and keep that disciplined, and just work. There are so many traps you can get into, and looking back on your own work is certainly one of them.”

Trying Actors Stuff Wall Photograph Looking Back Traps Reminiscing

Author:Woody Allen

“I don't like to risk my life, so I prepare sometimes for months or sometimes for years. But sometimes after a walk, I look what I have done, and I have a little bit of fear coming to me, just looking at pictures.”

Years Looks Littles Sometimes Done Bits Walks Risk Months Little Bit

Author:Philippe Petit

“I don't like to run. I don't like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can't jog, there's something in the way.”

Way Two Bigs Running Girl Upset Two Things Up And Down Bosoms Big Girl

Author:Sophia Loren

“I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.”

Scientist Very Good Bad Things Stamps Collectors

Author:Luis Walter Alvarez

“I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.”

Life Giving Art Artist Culture Given Painter Sculptors

Author:Frank Stella

“I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.”

People Mean Hard Hard Work

Author:Jonah Hill

“I don't like to say something's weird when it's innovative and fresh.”

Innovative

Author:Kanye West

“I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there.”

Ifs Religious Food Cooking Kitchen Culinary Ritual Voodoo Priestesses

Author:Pearl Bailey

Source: Pearl's Kitchen: An Extraordinary Cookbook

“I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.”

Years

Author:Joan Jett

“I don't like to say, "Oh, I don't like this kind of music." I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.”

People Trying Kind

Author:John Darnielle

“I don't like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that's most inspiring, because it's at that second that you're aware of "the infinite everything."”

Way Feels Made Moments Certain Records Infinite My Favorite Radio Present Moment Most Inspiring

Author:Russell Simmons

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