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“There are movies that I've made where I thought I was going to be good, but when it was cut it together it wasn't. And there are a lot of movies that, for one reason or another, just don't become popular. So to me it's always been a little bit of a roll of the dice. That's the way it goes.”

“I'm a bit traditional in the way that I think that a woman draws her energy from the house. Food is a really nice way of expressing that energy and love, and doing something with care and putting time into it and nourishing your family.”

Thinking Way Care House Energy Bits Nice Draws And Love Traditional Our Family Really Nice

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Last House offended a lot of people. The results in the theaters, even in Boston, reminded me a bit of things from when I was studying theater of the absurd, and the rise and the appearance of Ionesco plays, and things like that. Thinking, "My God, people actually are getting into fistfights. People are having heart attacks. People are actually trying to get into the projection booth to destroy the print."”

People Thinking Trying Heart Play Lasts House Bits Results Study Theater Appearance Absurd Print Offended Boston Projection Heart Attack

Author:Wes Craven

“I think that there has been a slow recognition that there's a mind at work here, and there's a skill and some bit of artistry, and that I could probably do other things. Otherwise, I don't know that I would've been given the opportunity to do Paris, Je T'Aime.”

Thinking Knows Mind Has Beens Opportunity Given Bits Skills Recognition Paris Here And There Artistry

Author:Wes Craven

“For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.”

Writing Different Shows Culture Bits Backgrounds Village Different Cultures Different Backgrounds

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Most of my bits are long stream-of-consciousness- type things, and when I'm doing them onstage, other places to take the theme or idea will hit me, and I just go with it.”

Long Ideas Bits Consciousness Type Streams Theme Stream Of Consciousness

Author:Joe Rogan

“I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more now because it's easier. I can't work in the theater because to me it's too serious. It's like being in prison for me. I admire people that can do that but I can't do it. I'd rather live my life and do a bit of acting in between.”

People I Can Used Bits Enjoy Can Do Acting Serious Easier Theater Prison Admire Used To Be Obsessed Living My Life

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty, I saw opportunities to express my music - dare I say art - in a way that I could get a bit surreal.”

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Author:Nicolas Cage

“Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started.”

Firsts Littles Different Past Bits Little Bit Different Experiences

Author:Woody Allen

“I really like the animated film process. It's kind of like doing a play, because you can experiment with it, rewrite it, screen it, go back, then work on it a little bit more. If the joke doesn't work, you can fix it. It's different from a live action movie.”

Ifs Kind Littles Different Play Action Film Bits Process Little Bit Jokes Screens Experiments Animated Action Movie Animated Films

Author:Steve Martin

“It's very hard sometimes when you can't crack something or can't solve something and you keep trying and trying and you know it's falling a little bit short. That's very hard, but then when you finally do it, it's very rewarding and the process is good too, I like working with people this way.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“Another thing that I like and that's fun for me is to try and talk and play music at the same time, because I feel like I'm learning something. There are these little challenges built into it; it's a way to push myself a little bit more as a performer.”

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Author:Demetri Martin

“"Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.”

Ifs Mean Persons Seems Might Dies Bits Class Struggle Rich Negative Universal Determined Working Class Get Rich

Author:Curtis Jackson

“I think, sometimes, artists release music too fast. If you just sit back and listen to the track for a little bit you could pick and choose how you want to do it and see if you really feel the song, because sometimes you might not even like the song after a few listens.”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Littles Sometimes Might Artist Song Bits Little Bit Picks Track Release

Author:Schoolboy Q

“I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.”

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Author:Johnny Carson

“My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.”

Knows Littles Ideas Faces Bits Stage Little Bit Your Face Persona Better Than You Pretentious Crass

Author:Bo Burnham

“I'm very interested in trying to make comedy shows that are a bit bigger, more theatrical, more of a "show." Some people might say I'm trying too hard, but that's a compliment to me. I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.”

People Trying Littles Hard Shows Might Values Bits Comedy Bigger Productions Corners Compliment Theatrical Flair Comedy Shows Trying Too Hard

Author:Bo Burnham

“I look for interesting titles that are curious and make people think. A lot of people are always so caught up in their lives. But if I make them smile through my titles or provoke them a little bit then maybe they will think about things and read the book and take something away from it.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Littles Book Bits Interesting Little Bit Caught Curious Titles Provoking Caught Up

Author:Robin Sharma

“As a consumer, if I heard someone who said, "I've written this song," and then I found out it wasn't by them, it's a bit disappointing. A lot of the guys that do that are really talented and they've made some incredible music, but they get addicted to having success and feel too much pressure, so they get other people to make sure that their next song makes money.”

People Ifs Feels Made Said Guy Song Next Found Bits Too Much Written Heard Pressure Incredibles Making Money Consumers Disappointing

Author:Howard Lawrence

“Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what they're doing, and you're just one of a number of directors who comes in.”

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Author:Michael J. Bassett

“The economy is turning around, so that's going to help a little bit.”

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Author:Donald Miller

“Everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. Ultimately I'm the writer for me, but also anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me and I'm pretty good at helping them get there. I think we all work together on some level, but for the most part, we're on our own.”

Ifs Thinking Helping Together Bits Levels Creative My Friends Stuck Painter Working Together Call Me Canvas

Author:Ron White

“As I've gotten old I've really listened to a wide spectrum of music, whether it's The Carpenters, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z or Lauryn Hill. I've kinda' run the gamut, and in listening to so many different styles, you come to take bits and pieces from all of it.”

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Author:Brooklyn Sudano

“Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.”

People Want Giving Littles Book Done Stories Young Bits Little Bit Boring Stuck Storytelling Ancestor Academic Misunderstood

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“The idea of separating church and state by the Founding Fathers of America was freedom from the domination of one form of religion, because many of them left England, because they were persecuted by the church, because they want to express their Christian faith in a different way. So it was a bit of warfare between Christians.”

“The Bible contains legendary, historical, and ethical contents. It is quite possible to consider them separately, and one doesn't have to accept the legends in order to get the ethics. Fundamentalists make a grave mistake to insist on the letter of the writings, because they drive away many who can't swallow the Adam-and-Eve bit.”

Writing Religion Order Bits Mistake Accepting Ethics Letters Historical Graves Ethical Legends Adam Legendary Adam And Eve

Book:Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

“I have a cheese-shredder at home, which is its positive name. They don't call it by its negative name, which is sponge-ruiner. Because I wanted to clean it, but now I have little bits of sponge that would melt easily over tortilla chips.”

Littles Home Humor Wanted Funny Names Bits Little Bit Negative Clean Cheese Chips Sponges Tortillas

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.”

Littles Has Beens Whole Running Universe Bits Animal Rocks Little Bit Mates Running Away End Times Spend Time Dividing

Author:Terry Pratchett

“There's two types of hecklers. If someone says something really funny it's normally them heckling as part of the show. They're trying to add onto one of your jokes. If someone says something really funny, I've never seen a comedian abuse them, you always sort of tip your hat a little bit if they nail it.”

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Author:Jim Jefferies

“I don't write my standup on paper or anything; but I just organically do it on stage, have an idea, chat it up a little bit. I'm keeping notes. I'm trying to keep up with this world and try to bring out a special every year.”

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Author:Jim Jefferies

“There's always been a little bit of the crusader in me, and you need dragons to slay, without the conflict and the controversy I think that what I managed to do less, and I take a great deal of pride in the accomplishment.”

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Author:Hugh Hefner

“You need to have a lot of close family around you, a lot of friends to keep you honest. Take your time, take a year and just slow everything down a little bit. Get away from the success part, stay with yourself. Go off on a beach somewhere or do something to keep yourself aligned right.”

Needs Years Littles Bits Honest Little Bit Beach Get Away Lots Of Friends Take Your Time Close Family

Author:George Lucas

“Hoodie was just a nickname I had growing up and I just wanted to have a name that would stick in peoples' minds and be a little bit funny and representative of who I am.”

Mind Littles Wanted Names Bits Growing Up Growing Little Bit Sticks Who I Am Representatives Nicknames

Author:Hoodie Allen

“I think the craziest thing I've seen is probably a fan sleeping overnight for two nights before a show, which was probably a bit excessive - they still probably could have been first either way! But I guess it turned into a really exciting, sort of, camping-out trip for them so it was cool.”

Thinking Way Firsts Has Beens Stills Two Shows Night Bits Sleep Fans Exciting Could Have Been Camping Craziest Camping Out

Author:Hoodie Allen

“Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.”

Ifs Littles Important Spiritual Values Bits Magic Modern Elements Little Bit Silly Magician Modern Day Silliness

Author:Jon Turteltaub

“I just love the subversion of dialogue in sitcoms, stand-up is monologue and that is entertaining for a lot of people but personally I find it a bit trying, which is a weird thing to say as a stand-up! I love people aping normal conversation and twisting it so it becomes hilarious.”

People Trying Bits Conversation Normal Dialogue Entertaining Sitcom Weird Things Monologues Subversion

Author:Doc Brown

“Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing.”

Thinking Littles Country Artist Bits Rocks Little Bit Roots Good Things Staying Throwing Stay True Flair Music Artist

Author:Jason Aldean

“I think my music is definitely country but it's got a little bit of that rock flair about it. I always try to find the things that everyday people deal with in their everyday lives and situations in the songs that I sing.”

People Thinking Trying Littles Country Song Bits Deals Situation Rocks Little Bit Music Is Everyday Everyday Life Flair

Author:Jason Aldean

“I think just having a gift and being able to do something creative and having people like it and enjoy it... I'm in a really, really cool place here. A lot of people try to do this and might get a little bit of success, but we've been lucky. We're going to take that and try and go as far as we can with it and just do the best that we can.”

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Author:Mitch Lucker

“Small towns seem to appreciate things a little bit more. They're less jaded and they're more kind of authentic and more themselves and they don't care as much.”

Kind Littles Seems Care Bits Little Bit Appreciate Towns Don't Care Small Town Jaded

Author:Pauly Shore

“I think a lot of people haven't even seen my videos but just hearing my name are like "Oh, that's that dumb Internet thing." And I'm definitely trying to shake that a little bit.”

People Thinking Trying Littles Names Bits Havens Internet Little Bit Hearing Video Dumb Shakes

Author:Shane Dawson

“I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when my mind is freshest. I might write for a couple of hours, and then I head out to have lunch and read the paper. Then I write for a little bit longer if I can, then probably go to the library or make some phone calls. Every day is a little bit different. I'm not highly routinized, so I spend a lot of time wandering around New York City with my laptop in my bag, wondering where I'm going to end up next. It's a fairly idyllic life for someone who likes writing.”

“Radio has changed, there was a little bit of difference around the country and now that is gone and everything is uniform. That is not the only place it's happening in music, there's a lot of consolidation.”

Littles Country Bits Differences Gone Changed Little Bit Happenings Radio Uniforms Consolidation

Author:Joan Jett

“You have to have a strong sense of humor to date me, and also know that you're probably going to be a part of the routine quite a bit.”

Knows Strong Bits Sense Of Humor Routine

Author:Dane Cook

“When I am getting ready to cross a street, I look both ways before crossing. My bones, my muscles, are not what they used to be, so I am careful when I go up and down stairs, because I've heard stories of older people falling and having very disabling injuries. I have enough things that begin to go a little bit wrong as I get a little bit older.”

People Way Looks Littles Enough Stories Used Fall Bits Heard Streets Ready Little Bit Crosses Careful Bones Used To Be Muscles Injury Up And Down Stairs Crossings Older People

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.”

Thinking Littles Song Bits Computer Little Bit Programmers Always Thinking Computer Programmers

Author:Jon Foreman

“The song can be a little bit more of the mystery and leave the whole thing open ended. But there's something really gratifying about saying exactly what you mean.”

Mean Littles Whole Song Bits Mystery Little Bit

Author:Jon Foreman

“Speed takes a little bit of getting used to, but rules have to be followed. At any speed, the more you run, the more you get used to it.”

Littles Running Used Bits Little Bit Speed

Author:Mario Andretti

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