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“While 'Felicity' was successful in the States, and I had opportunities to do other stuff, I didn't want to do anything to make myself more famous. I wasn't dealing well with the celebrity of all of that. I was 23 - just a kid - and not coming from money, it was all just too much. I just wanted to slow it down a little bit, and gain control.”

Want Wells Littles States Kids Wanted Opportunity Stuff Bits Successful Too Much Little Bit Gains Felicity

Author:Keri Russell

“Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.”

Thinking I Can Bits Memories Knees

Author:Dawn French

“Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mean Persons Bits Interesting Middle Evolve Middle Aged

Author:Dawn French

“My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.”

Bits Approach Very Good Subtle Timing Blunders Covert

Author:Dawn French

“Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.”

Bits Unique Vehicle Be Here Now

Book:Remember, now be here, now here be

Source: Remember, now be here, now here be

“Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.”

Feels Mean Bits Pretentious Sunglasses Dark Glasses

Author:Daphne Guinness

“My ideal type of women? A person who is completely into me. It's fine even if she's so into me that it's a bit strange. She doesn't spend time with friends, she doesn't go out, but instead is unconditionally attached to me. I'm not joking. I really want someone like that.”

Ifs Want Persons Bits Strange Fine Type Ideals End Times Spend Time Times With Friends

Author:Lee Joon

“I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.”

World Giving Littles Night Bits This World Reader Little Bit Sorry Cooks Chickens Every Night Dishes Mexican Peasants Toss Heads Up Thai Hungarians

Author:Adam Carolla

“It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.”

Bits Satisfied Perfectionist Headache

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.”

People Wish Bits Theory Luck Dancing Lovely Horns Good Luck Escapism Unapologetic

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.”

Play Bits Guitar Piano Back In The Day Ukulele Playing Piano

Author:Max Schneider

“I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.”

People Knows Way Bits Regret Fats

Author:Tippi Hedren

“The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.”

Way Needs Looks Certain Stars Bits Attention Too Much Fashion Draws Assassins

Author:Maggie Q

“Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way.”

People Way Want Giving Littles Has Beens Opportunity Bits Becoming Little Bit Giving Back Influential

Author:Grant Achatz

“I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.”

Thinking Mean Littles Play Running Kids Bits Sides Growing Up Growing Little Bit Dresses Girly Barbie Kids Growing Up

Author:Adrianne Palicki

“It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.”

Wells Littles Important Bits Little Bit

Author:Kareena Kapoor

“Because of my job, my hair gets played with a lot on set, so I try to give it little bit of breathing space when Im not working.”

Giving Trying Littles Jobs Bits Space Hair Little Bit Breathing Breathing Space

Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, "God, they don't paint behind the sets." It's a bit of a shame, really - "Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood." I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.”

Thinking Kind Real Kids Remember Bits Sides Acting Behinds Wall Shame Paint Disappointed Thinking God

Author:Andy Serkis

“Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.”

Faces Bits Lines Worry Too Much Tiny Your Face Laughed Too Short Life's Too Short

Author:Ashley Jensen

“Yellow is my favorite, but what is yellow? Handmaiden to white, it is a slight tarnish of pure light. Take away a bit of whites absolute luminosity, and what remains is yellow -- sunlike, golden as a crown, buttercups in a field, marsh marigolds, a finch's wing, a plastic flute.”

Light Bits White Fields Pure Absolutes Remains Wings My Favorite Golden Yellow Plastic Crowns Flutes Marshes Buttercup Finches Marigolds

Book:The Bardo of Waking Life

Source: The Bardo of Waking Life

“I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.”

Bits Asking Photographer Going Out

Author:Alice Evans

“There are times when you come across somebody that's really impressive, someone that's got a proper living and really does make a difference to people's lives. Then I do feel a bit of a wanker, admitting I'm an actress. That's hard to say to someone who may be making a difference. But I don't know how I could change things.”

People Knows Feels May Doe Hard Bits Differences Know How Actresses Making A Difference Impressive Admitting

Author:Michelle Gomez

“I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.”

Men Helping Bits Dog Fingers Courtesy Lame Stiles

Author:William Chillingworth

“I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination ... but I was not so handicapped. A squirrel, for example, is debarred from sending money to some greedy doctor or druggist and making arrangements to have a bit of powder sent each day by mail.”

Source: Queen of Diamonds: The Fabled Legacy of Evalyn Walsh McLean

“Money and electricity are much alike. Both are stored energy. Living amidst electricity, using it constantly, you take its presence and its utility for granted. Treated with respect, it is constructive, tireless. Treated with disrespect, it is destructive, vicious. It will light your way, pull a twelve-car train from Washington to New York in a bit more than four hours, kill you or burn your house alike. Electricity is insulated, though, and children are not permitted to play with it.”

Way Children Play Light House Energy Bits Hours Money Four Car New York Train Treated Granted Destructive Twelve Electricity Vicious Utility Constructive Disrespect

Book:Father Struck It Rich

Source: Father Struck It Rich

“Since sane people rarely surround themselves with furnishings which they personally find repellent, it is logical to assume that it will generate a bit of goodwill to enthuse about those they have.”

People Bits Assuming Logical Surround Sane Goodwill Furnishings

Author:Anne Morice

“Ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it.”

Culture Bits Ethics

Book:Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

“I get asked to do benefits a lot and I've decided I've got to be a bit more discerning, I can't just do all of them. . . . I got asked to do a benefit for babies born addicted to crack. And I said well, all right, I'll help you raise money for them, but I think we both know what they're gonna spend it on.”

Thinking Knows Wells Said I Can Helping Bits Born Baby Benefits Decided Raises Cracks Discerning Baby Born

Author:Laura Kightlinger

“[On stereotyping:] It's the mind's way of processing a lot of information quickly. If we had to sort through every bit of data before making a decision, most folks would still be going out the front door when it was time to come home for the night.”

Ifs Way Mind Stills Home Night Bits Decision Doors Fronts Information Folks Data Coming Home Going Out Stereotype Processing Front Doors

Author:Fay Faron

“In the United States those bits of our history that remain are paved over, sanitized, packaged for easy consumption. At those sites not already lost to commercial development, we walk between velvet ropes, herded by guides, warned not to touch. Our icons are preserved under glass, their magic demystified in glossy brochures.”

States Lost Easy Bits Walks United History United States Magic Development Glasses Guides Consumption Site Rope Icons Velvet Brochures

Author:Biloine W. Young

“I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin.”

Years Said I Can Use Bigs Remember Next Lost Bits Acting Campaigns Designer Modeling Next Year Chins Portfolios

Author:Rupert Penry-Jones

“There is a bit of a once a soap actor always a soap actor thing, but I do think people still recognise talent. If youre good at something, then people have no choice but to accept it.”

People Ifs Thinking Stills Choices Actors Bits Accepting Talent Soap Recognise

Author:Judi Shekoni

“I did side planks for my obliques, which are one of my trouble areas. And traditional planks tone your back so you don't have that little bit of fat hanging over your bra. Ugh!”

Littles Bits Sides Trouble Little Bit Areas Fats Traditional Tone Over You Bras Ugh

Author:Ashley Greene

“I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.”

Littles Bits Secret Little Bit Clown

Author:Matthew Settle

“When I approached Volume 1 of "Lucid," I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.”

Shows Bits Issues Four Tvs Approach Seasons I Realized Volume Tv Shows Dice

Author:Michael McMillian

“I have turned into a bit of a homebody as I've gotten older. I don't really like to leave the couch in Los Angeles, but when a job comes around that you feel you have to do, you get up and do it.”

Feels Jobs Bits Get Up Los Angeles Couches Homebodies

Author:Justin Kirk

“You might look at my CV and see I've had 12 jobs, but I've been to over 450 auditions so I've heard 'no' a lot more than I've heard 'yes'. So if I go in looking only to meet my own standards, then that will make taking that rejection a little bit easier. And when I do get that job it will seem like icing on the cake.”

Ifs Looks Littles Seems Might Jobs Bits My Own Heard Easier Little Bit Standards Rejection Cake Auditions Icing Icing On The Cake

Author:Wentworth Miller

“I'd like to play a mixture of Lucille Ball meets Murphy Brown meets Glenn Close on 'Damages,' to keep a little bit of the darkness in there. I like dark comedy a lot.”

Littles Play Bits Dark Darkness Comedy Little Bit Balls Damage Brown Mixtures Murphy Dark Comedy Murphy Brown

Author:Joelle Carter

“What if the genetically superior male is actually a bit of a dickhead?”

Ifs Bits Males Superiors What If

Author:Joanna Noelle Levesque

“I actually have a weird tendency to say things to people that they were just about to say. I always freak my best friend out with that. So I might have a bit of psychic power.”

People Might Bits Tendencies Freak Psychics My Best Friend

Author:Lauren Lee Smith

“It's always a bit strange when you join a show in the second season.”

Shows Bits Strange Seasons

Author:Lauren Lee Smith

“During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'”

Thinking Knows Wells Children Littles Two War Jobs Remember Girl Bits Little Bit Thirds Iraq Grades Gulf War Third Grade

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.”

Ifs Dies Bits Knowing Saving Shore Fahrenheit 451 Book

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality.”

Feels Kind Sometimes Bits Personality Manage Splits Schizophrenic Split Personality

Author:Emma Watson

“You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.”

Littles I Can Ends Character Actors Bits Little Bit Connections The End Of The Day Parallels

Author:Aaron Stanford

“I owe a great deal of thanks to this man who will be gracious enough to say I've helped him with his career and comeback, but it's every bit the opposite.”

Men Enough Bits Deals Careers Opposites Thanks Gracious Comeback

Author:Shane Black

“Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.”

Bits Cities Opinion Overrated Offence

Author:Ed Stoppard

“I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.”

People Would Be Action Wish Bits

Author:Ed Stoppard

“Sometimes work is a bit slow, and I always wanted to be a princess at Disneyland. There were 1,500 of us who auditioned, and 11 of us were hired. I went through all of the training, but never ended up actually getting to play Belle because 'Revenge' started. It was the time of my life, though!”

Sometimes Play Wanted Bits Training Revenge Princess Disneyland Time Of My Life Belle

Author:Christa B. Allen

“I think the years leading up to 21 were a bit more fun than 21 and beyond might be.”

Thinking Years Might Fun Bits

Author:Christa B. Allen

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