“I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.” PeopleThinkingTwoDifferentKidsLife IsCareersCoupleValuableTime ManagementCommodityParcel Author:Hugh Jackman
“We all hold on to some image of the family we want, based one way or another on the family we had. Lots of people are thrilled about the families they came from, others couldn't get away fast enough. Most people fall into that vast middle ground: great affection mixed with a few ideas for improvement. A couple of things they wish could have perhaps been done differently.” PeopleWayWantIdeasDoneEnoughFallWishMiddleCoupleAffectionImprovementOne WayGet AwayMiddle Ground Author:Paul Reiser
“Ridiculous that some people feel superior to the gay minority. They're the only couples you'll ever find poking around for ceramics and candle holders in the winery gift shop and both parties really want to be there.” PeopleWantFeelsPartyCoupleGayRidiculousSuperiorsShopsMinoritiesCandleCeramics Author:Richard Jeni
“You know, where I come from, an antique, to be called an antique, it has to be at least a hundred years old. That's a law: before you can call something an antique, it has to be a hundred years old. In L.A., something that's been around for a couple of weeks is an antique. It's true! People are like, Look at this old-fashioned iPod. Look at this! It's the size of a man's hand! Ha ha ha ha. Back then-back then, people thought Mel Gibson was just acting crazy. It was a very different time.” PeopleKnowsMenYearsLooksDifferentHandsLawActingWeekCrazyCoupleHundredSizeOld FashionedIpodsAntiquesDifferent TimesTrue People Author:Craig Ferguson
“A-Rod wants to be like Babe Ruth. And people don't realize this, he's a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs a couple of years ago, A-Rod went to the hospital and promised a dying kid he'd ground out to second for him.” PeopleWantYearsKidsSportsRealizingDyingCouplePromiseYears AgoBaseballComedianHospitalsBabePlayoffsRuth Author:Artie Lange
“I got some pilot scripts and auditioned for a couple other ones, too. It was just a standard audition, where I kept going in to read and went up the ladder, in terms of people who you're performing for during those auditions. Each step of the way, I was happy with that level of audition.” PeopleWayTermLevelsStepsCoupleStandardsScriptsPerformingPilotsAuditionsLadders Author:Tim Kang
“But, yeah, it was just the regular audition process. There were a couple people telling me about it and that they were looking for the actors, but my manager is pretty good at sorting that out. And, (casting director) Rene Haynes cast me in Into the West, and she's always kept in touch and been a real big supporter of my career.” PeopleRealBigsActorsProcessCareersCoupleDirectorsYeahWestCastsManagersAuditionsSupporterCastingSortingCasting Directors Author:Tinsel Korey
“With acting, I'm taking somebody else's work and interpreting it. Whereas with music, it's organic. It's completely myself. Nobody else is really involved with the beginning stages of it. Art is something that I haven't really put out to the public. There's a couple pictures on MySpace, but I haven't done a gallery opening or anything like that. Art is very personal to me. I haven't really shared it with too many people.” PeopleArtDoneActingStageHavensCoupleInvolvedArt IsOpeningGalleryInterpreting Author:Tinsel Korey
“I work more than people realize. It doesn't mean you always see the project. Look at how many stations we have. I did a couple films in Australia. I like the movies.” PeopleLooksMeanFilmRealizingCoupleProjectsAustraliaStations Author:Linda Blair
“There are a couple hard things. One, getting a funny idea that people can relate to; a funny idea or a funny script; there's a million pitches.” PeopleIdeasHardMillionsCoupleScriptsRelateHard Things Author:David Spade
“If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. Just make sure you clear the bold move with the people whose lives it's going to affect. Like George Washington, had to get all those guys who the British killed to agree to die. Neil Armstrong, had to crank a couple of elbows into Buzz Aldrin's face mask to make sure he got on the moon first. And Christopher Titus, well, he worked his dad for five grand. Ha ha. Who can't support who ? I know, it's complicated.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantFirstsWellsEnoughFacesMovingGuyDiesSupportClearFiveCoupleDadMoonAgreeComplicatedBritishMaskWant SomethingElbowsBuzzArmstrongCrankBold Moves Author:Christopher Titus
“I mean, a lot of people don't realize it, but fashion is one of the most racial industries left out there now. Radio and music aren't. Television and movies aren't. Even commercials now are showing interracial couples. You see a lot of diversity in TV shows, but you don't see that in fashion. You think there would be some, because the consumer is of all colors and all shades. But you don't see that in fashion.” PeopleThinkingMeanShowsWould BeLeftRealizingFashionTelevisionColorTvsIndustryCoupleDiversityRadioConsumersShadeTv ShowsLeft OutInterracial Couple Author:Tyson Beckford
“[The people who run things] are so successful in the way they do it now. They could buy me off with a couple of vintage prints, they could have you do an ad, or give you a ribbon... In capitalist countries they reward artists because we're ineffectual.” PeopleWayGivingCountryRunningArtistSuccessfulCoupleRewardsPrintAdsCapitalistVintageRibbons Author:Danny Lyon
“Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.” PeopleMadeEnoughBigsRecordsCoupleAssumingBikeJetGarageMachoLearLuggageMinivans Author:Dave Grohl
“You do something on television, and so many people see it that it follows you around. It's interesting. I've done a couple of things on TV, and probably more people saw me than in all the movies I've made.” PeopleMadeDoneInterestingSawsTelevisionTvsCouple Author:Christopher Walken
“Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that have happened to other people.” PeopleFeelingsWrittenHappenedCoupleOccasions Author:James Walsh
“How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantBookCareReadingHoursCouplePeriodsTake Care Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken but not destroyed. On the other hand the people who were living in the miserable urban slums, huge numbers of them, they were devastated. Maybe a couple hundred thousand were killed. How come they were living there? They were living there because of-it goes back to the French colonial system-but in the past century, they were living there because of US policies, consistent policies.” PeopleHandsPastNumbersClassCenturyPolicyHugeCoupleThousandHundredHarmDestroyedMiserableHillsConsistentWealthyElitesUrbanCatastropheEarthquakesHaitiDevastatedSlumsHuge Numbers Author:Noam Chomsky
“Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of mail - literally within a year I got a couple of thousand letters from people who'd had a worse childhood, a similar childhood, a less-bad childhood, and the question that was most often posed to me in those letters was: how did you get past the trauma of being raised by a violent alcoholic?” PeopleYearsEnoughPastChildhoodCoupleThousandLettersRaisedTraumaViolentMailAlcoholics Author:Dean Koontz
“All my friends are funny, witty, fun-loving people. As are my parents, and the people I work with. I get at least a couple of good laughs in every day.” PeopleFunParentLaughingCoupleMy FriendsWittyGood LaughFunny WittyFun Loving Author:Toks Olagundoye
“I have been a strong proponent of helping people understand that during the last decade or so, as it lies at the very bottom of how we know anything. Let me give a couple examples to get that point across.” PeopleKnowsGivingHas BeensHelpingLastsLyingStrongExampleCoupleLet MeBottomDecadesHelping People Author:Edgar Mitchell
“Well, there's lots of different things going on at the moment, I'm in talks with some people from Japan to do something and I'm also talking to Hugo Boss to do a very small line, which I want to keep to just 10-12 pieces, but what I want to do is sit with the designers for a couple of days bashing some stuff out.” PeopleWantWellsDifferentMomentsStuffLinesTalkingPiecesCoupleDesignerJapanDifferent ThingsBoss Author:Jay Kay
“I don't have too many plans filled out. I know I want to keep doing more music. I've got a couple of albums worth of songs I'd like to put it out there. As far as movies, I just want to continue how I've been doing it: working with terrific people is certainly on my agenda, and then doing stories that interest me.” PeopleKnowsWantStoriesSongInterestPlansCoupleFilledAlbumsAgendasTerrificFilled Out Author:Jeff Bridges
“You can be a couple in London who happen to take pictures of their breakfasts every day - it's called @symmetrybreakfast - and you can gain hundreds of thousands of followers overnight because people are genuinely interested in your unique angle on the world.” PeopleWorldHappensCoupleUniqueGainsLondonBreakfastFollowersAngle Author:Kevin Systrom
“I definitely enjoy working within different contexts, with different collaborators, and in different locations. I need to keep feeding myself as an artist by working with different people. I see continuing with that. I've also enjoyed getting to explore different kinds of music and instruments in the last couple of years.” PeopleNeedsYearsKindDifferentLastsArtistEnjoyCoupleInstrumentsEnjoyedDifferent KindsContinuingLocationFeedingDifferent PeoplesCollaboratorsDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Mirah
“A conversation with you is a different thing than projecting to a couple hundred people. It's bigger and more animated and it's on a bigger scope, but still in the heart, it's honestly me.” PeopleHeartStillsDifferentCoupleConversationHundredBiggerHonestlyDifferent ThingsScopeAnimated Author:Craig Finn
“I don't really have any advice for people who love each other and both happen to be writers, other than one of the two people in the couple better be slightly less in the clouds all day, or else you'll both starve to death. Humans really can't survive on just coffee alone, I don't think.” PeopleThinkingHumansTwoHappensAdviceCoupleCloudsCoffeeLove Each Other Author:Tod Goldberg
“I did have a couple of people asking me to illustrate their MC in a hope to widen the exposure, unfortunately the messages weren't a good fit, so I couldn't oblige. And I didn't really want to become a matchmaking service. Someone posted a missed connection "I like your blog" which was directed at me... that was kind of fun to stumble across.” PeopleWantKindFunLike YouCoupleFitMessagesConnectionsAskingExposureBlogsI Like YouMissed Connections Author:Sophie Blackall
“It makes me wonder sometimes. Remember a couple years ago, when Mexicans went on strike? It was talked about a little bit but not that much. But some old white people, and there aren't even that many, they put bonnets on, and then they control the news.” PeopleYearsLittlesSometimesRememberBitsWhiteWonderCoupleLittle BitNewsYears AgoStrikesBonnets Author:David Sedaris
“I want to be successful and I want people to hear the music and I want to make money at it, but if it isn't what you do, eventually it seems like that will cause you to not be able to do what you do. If you did that for a couple years, you would just become someone else, which is fine, I guess...but I don't want to become someone else. I want to do what I enjoy and what feels right.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsYearsSeemsAbleCausesEnjoySuccessfulFineCoupleMaking MoneyBeing SuccessfulFeels Right Author:Will Oldham
“We could have saved Wall Street without putting our future in jeopardy. I predicted that there would be all-around consequences - in the long run as well as in the short run. People are now saying we can't afford health care reform because we spent all the money on the banks. So, in effect, we're saying that it's better that we give rich bankers a couple of trillion than giving ordinary Americans access to health care.” PeopleGivingWellsLongWould BeCareRunningRichStreetsEffectsWallCoupleOrdinaryConsequenceAccessSavedReformHealth CareOur FutureLong RunsBankersJeopardyHealth Care Reform Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“It just so happens that when I was, like, 19 or 20, I got a couple of auditions and got a couple parts with good people. Of the thousands of auditions where you don't get the part, I've done a couple of jobs where you do it and you're like, "Okay, this is good."” PeopleDoneHappensJobsCoupleOkayGood PeopleAuditions Author:Paul Dano
“It's always the thing when you're shooting out and about with real people and you could get a couple of bogeys like sticking their face in front of the camera, like 'Hey!'” PeopleRealFacesFrontsCoupleCamerasHeyShooting Author:Joel Kinnaman
“We went on the opening weekend [of Star Wars], a group of us went out and just popped into a couple theaters just to see people in the theater watching the movie, and it was incredibly gratifying just to see the thing out there being watched by people. And the reaction was more than we could've expected.” PeopleWarStarsGroupsCoupleTheaterExpectedReactionsOpeningWeekend Author:J. J. Abrams
“Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going to be able to protect them from German extortions, and it didn't look so much as though they had won the war, either. And so by '43, a lot of people are shifting sides.” PeopleYearsLooksWarAbleSidesCoupleProtectRegimesEvidentShiftingNew StartExtortion Author:Robert O. Paxton
“But the question is - are we deporting a couple hundred people for show or are we actually making a serious effort to remove everybody who's got a final order of removal? When I say enforcement theater, what I mean is a kind of pretend enforcement.” PeopleKindMeanShowsOrderEffortSeriousCoupleHundredTheaterFinalsRemoveEnforcementRemoval Author:Mark Krikorian
“I've just been watching other people's releases and learning from their mistakes. I know I'm bound to make a couple of my own, but I've got a couple ideas that I think are going to help get it out.” PeopleThinkingKnowsIdeasHelpingMy OwnMistakeCoupleBoundsRelease Author:JD Era
“People are still crying out for Lennox Lewis. They still want to see Lennox Lewis. That motivated me. I am still young. I have a couple fights left in me.” PeopleWantStillsYoungFightingLeftCryCoupleMotivated Author:Lennox Lewis
“So much of comedy is feeling comfortable with the point of view coming at you. So I understand it. There's people who I find hilarious now, but the first couple of times I saw 'em, I was like "What is this? I don't get it at all."” PeopleFirstsFeelingsViewsSawsComedyCoupleComfortablePoint Of ViewEms Author:Scott Aukerman
“So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan is now definitely a part of, doesn't have an understanding of what Enlightenment is.” PeopleCultureUnderstandingCoupleThousandEnlightenmentWesternInsaneConvinceJapanEnlightenedWestern Culture Author:Brad Warner
“When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up.” PeopleKnowsSongTalkingWrittenCouplePerformancesPianoPiano Playing Author:Alicia Keys
“I did a lot of research on a couple different things. One was, how do people handle hating themselves and hating others? And hatred is a secondary emotion, I think; it always springs from something else ... usually fear, that's probably what it is. So I looked a lot at that.” PeopleThinkingDifferentHateEmotionCoupleSpringResearchHatredHandleDifferent Things Author:Lauren Myracle
“I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects. So Peter's known that I've been heading towards directing for a long time. But I always thought my first outing would be a couple of people and a digital camera in the back streets of London somewhere!” PeopleFirstsLongWould BeFilmKnownLordStreetsCoupleProjectsLong TimeCamerasLondonRingsDigitalPeterHeadingsShort FilmsVideogameDigital Cameras Author:Andy Serkis
“So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations.” PeopleFeelsIdeasLyingDiesParentGenerationsCoupleBe Good Author:Vince Staples
“The people who seem to have a lock on power get swept out in a couple of years. So it's naïve to keep swinging at the same targets over and over. It took me a long time to realize, but most of the shackles that I flailed against were just illusory.” PeopleYearsLongSeemsRealizingCoupleLong TimeOver ItTargetLocksIllusoryShackles Author:George Meyer
“I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.” PeopleThinkingYearsLastsCoupleToughYears AgoInfirmityYears Of Life Author:Anna Quindlen
“I tried a couple of pop writers - none of the big, big, big ones - but it didn't work for me. I do have a commercial voice; I'm not quirky. I'm very normal and that's probably why I like people like Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston. It's no-nonsense. They sing well, and that's it.” PeopleWellsBigsVoiceCoupleNormalPopsNonsenseQuirkyHoustonWhitneyNo NonsenseStreisand Author:Jessie Ware
“I got involved, for the most part, in the actual song construction, lyrics even. I didn't want to write the lyrics, but if there was a howler in there, I definitely pointed it out. Just trying to bring it up to a higher level. Of course, after a couple records, people get fed up with that. That's fine.” PeopleIfsWantWritingTryingSongCoursesLevelsRecordsFineCoupleHigherInvolvedFedsConstructionHigher LevelFed Up Author:Michael Gira
“I took what worked for me and found I had a system that others were interested in and seemed to work for a wide number of people. It was recognised by other martial artists, grandmasters and such, and they gave me the recognition. I'm proud of my work in martial arts. I still teach but only once a week in a private class, and I train a couple more days a week.” PeopleArtStillsArtistFoundNumbersClassTeachWeekProudCoupleTrainWideRecognitionMartial ArtsMartial Artist Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“I think the majority of the people in the band still play in other bands, because we're not that active. But for me, it's the only thing I want to do and it's the only thing I'm focused on. I've always played in a couple of different bands at once, but now I'm only interested in the Dead Child stuff.” PeopleThinkingWantChildrenStillsDifferentPlayStuffCoupleBandMajorityActiveFocused Author:David Pajo