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“We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation.”

People World Stuff Difficult Sides Simple Situation Circumstances Advantage Borders Comment Sophisticated Both Sides Taking Advantage

Author:Arlo Guthrie

“I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.”

Thinking Knows States Character Actors Stuff Terrible England Teeth Character Actors

Author:Burn Gorman

“I love scenes that are just emotional give and take. By the same token action sequences are great to do. They have their own unique demands and requirements. So I take it as it comes and hopefully you can get a good balance of all of that stuff.”

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Author:Stephen Lang

“Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.”

Thinking Facts Wanted Stuff Watches Hot Arrogance Good Movie Turned Down

Author:Ali MacGraw

“In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didnt get to when I was younger.”

Hard Stuff Black Interest Rocks Punk Sabbath Punk Rock Zeppelins Hard Rock Black Sabbath

Author:Rick Rubin

“I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.”

Would Be Wanted School Stuff Parent Share Worst Stupid Healthy High School Fairs Worst Things Disappoint Fair Share Healthy Fear

Author:Christine Lakin

“When I was on The View, Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, 'Well, you know, that's a staple of Japanese cinema.' And then she came back, 'But this is America.' And I go, 'I don't make movies for America. I make movies for planet Earth.'”

Knows Wells Said Earth America Stuff Views Blood Planets Asking Cinema Planet Earth Barbara Staples

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I never really got on my own case about my own acting. I know a lot of other people have, and probably very justifiably. But I don't worry about stuff like that too much.”

People Knows Stuff My Own Acting Cases Worry Too Much

Author:Troy Donahue

“I always wanted to be a model, never an actress. I would see children in ads and stuff and wanted to be like them.”

Children Wanted Stuff Models Actresses Ads

Author:Anushka Sharma

“Dad loves my stuff. No matter how many times my voice cracks or I miss a tap, he doesn't care. He's like some businessman making it to his kid's recital.”

Matter Care Kids Stuff Voice Missing Dad Cracks Businessman Recitals Dad Love He Doesn't Care

Author:Peter DeLuise

“I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!”

Want Play Fun Stuff Taught Dear Manipulation Animation Dear Friend Fun Stuff

Author:Angela Bettis

“There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.”

Done Stuff Grapes Sour Sour Grapes

Author:Frank Gehry

“You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?”

Mean Stuff Growth Wonder Morning Get Up Bother Consumption

Book:Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.”

People Real Given Stuff Taste Drug Destroyed Opium Real Stuff

Author:Auberon Waugh

“It's all about winning. Stats really don't matter, I mean, guys have great series and all that, and people take notice and take their place in history with those stats and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, it's all about winning and what you can do to help your team get to that point.”

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Author:Stephen Curry

“If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start wallowing in a depression, he'll start coming down with stuff, so I'm sort of obligated to keep up. And sometimes I can't, because something will make me depressed and sure as hell he'll get a cold or trap his finger in a door or something, and so now I have sort of more reason to stay healthy or bright.”

Ifs Way I Can Sometimes Reason Feelings Stuff Hell Seeing Doors Cold Healthy Picks Parenting Fingers Busy Artistic Traps Glimpse Sean Wallowing Feeling Depressed Reason To Stay

Author:John Lennon

“I love the action stuff. Honestly, I like sci-fi and everything supernatural.”

Action Stuff Honestly Sci Fi

Author:Meaghan Rath

“Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.”

Thinking World Trying Wells Real Enough Seems Stuff Chance Cases Happenings Moved Fake Real Stuff Fake World

Author:Jenny Holzer

“Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.”

Ifs Way Want Play Moments Might Faces Life Is Lying Song Next Stuff Listening Depends Thousand Comfortable Folks Vary Folk Songs Truth About Life

Book:Chronicles

Source: Chronicles

“In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.”

Ifs Littles Has Beens Might Certain Given Stuff Disease Saved Radical Opponents Contradiction Vocabulary Might Have Been Drowning Theorists Swine Deadly Diseases

Book:Anthills of the Savannah

Source: Anthills of the Savannah

“Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.”

Knows Body Stuff Bits Your Body Handle Wiser Tolls

Author:Roger Federer

“I'm not to eager to play tennis in my spare time. I'm more interested in doing gym work and stuff like that. We have a lot of schools and courts around where I live, so if I really want to play I don't need to go too far.”

Ifs Want Needs Play School Stuff Court Tennis Gym Spares Spare Time

Author:Lleyton Hewitt

“Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.”

Different Ends Stuff Focus Magic Eggs Sugar Fairness Delicious Baking Calming Weighing Flour

Author:Marian Keyes

“When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.”

Bigs Kids Stuff Grew Garden Yards Acres

Author:Randy Houser

“It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.”

Book Ideas Hard Kids Wanted Used Hate Reading Stuff Challenges Forever Decided Take Me Sophisticated Captains Irresistible Underpants

Author:Dav Pilkey

“All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I often have to stop and look up stuff. At my local library, I am one of the best customers! The research takes several months.”

Writing Looks Long Book Stuff Middle Months Long Time Research Library Customers Locals Look Up

Author:Linda Sue Park

“I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.”

Trying Made Stuff Lists

Author:Rick Moody

“It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.”

People Sometimes Remember Turns Stuff Memories Happened Scene Details

Author:Rick Moody

“And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.”

Would Be Fun Stuff Wonderful Reader Publishers Anthology

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“People think that I'm mean because I'm quiet, and I don't really go out places or because I don't really say too much. On the other hand, people think that I'm soft because I may not handle myself the way other people handle themselves. That's just not me. They don't know my background or none of that stuff.”

People Thinking Knows Way May Mean Hands Stuff Too Much Quiet Backgrounds Handle

Author:Derrick Rose

“Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back, clean it up, throw it in the trash - don't matter, just get rid of it. I need stuff neat, organized. And once I start cleaning stuff, I don't stop until it's done. Otherwise I'm irritated all day.”

Ifs Needs Matter Done Moving House Stuff Clean Organized Cleaning Trash Messy Neat Irritated Messiness

Author:Russell Westbrook

“In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure.”

Certain Stuff Class College Dresses

Author:Russell Westbrook

“Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene its not one-on-one, its a one-on-12. Its very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.”

People I Can Different Bigs Social Stuff Levels Broken Healthy Scene Comfortable Music Is Luck Intimate Pot Old Friends Supper Different Levels One On One

Author:Feist

“My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.”

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Author:Jim Butcher

“I want to know: How does a space suit on Mars work? Show me how it is pressurized, and how it is cooled. What's the glove design? None of that stuff can be bought off the rack. It does not exist. You can't just go to SpaceMart and buy those things.”

Knows Want Doe Shows Stuff Space Know How Design Suits Mars Show Me Gloves Racks

Author:Chris Hadfield

“You're trying to do big things and you ain't mastered the little stuff!”

Trying Littles Bigs Stuff Big Things

Author:Eric Thomas

“These days I don't look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I've got no objections to stealing them if that seems like a good idea. I'm sure that I'm still influenced by Mark Knopfler and Eddie Van Halen as well......I can't play like Eddie Van Halen. I wish I could. I sat down to try some of those ideas and can't do it. I don't know if I could ever get any of that stuff together. Sometimes I think I should work at the guitar more.”

“Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.”

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Author:Steven Seagal

“I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs. I mean, the Brad Paisley's, Alan Jackson especially, even Taylor Swift - those people can really pen great stuff.”

People Thinking Writing Mean Song Stuff Wonder Albums Pens Brad Paisley

Author:Joe Nichols

“If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.”

Ifs Writing Strong Stuff Opinion Middle Scene Research Dialogue Rising Metals Towers

Author:Jimmy Breslin

“In the end, the whole Internet thing kills me, because you can use it as a positive thing or you can read into all the negativity. And I think youve gotta put out positive energy, put out cool viral stuff, and then just stay out of peoples opinions.”

Thinking Ends Whole Use Energy Stuff Opinion Internet Negativity Kill Me Positive Energy Positive Things Viral

Author:Nikki Sixx

“I just think if I can go from being a homeless kid with a dream of being in the biggest band in the world and making that happen, I can do a lot of other cool stuff, too.”

Ifs Thinking World I Can Dream Happens Kids Stuff Can Do Band Homeless Cool Stuff

Author:Nikki Sixx

“All this stuff you heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans, traditionally, love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost - and will never lose - a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.”

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Author:George C. Scott

“I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time... All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.”

Thinking Feels Certain Literature Stuff Outside Looking In

Author:Mark Haddon

“I bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff, so there's always something, nicks and stuff, here and there.”

Play Stuff Golf Here And There

Author:O. J. Simpson

“I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.”

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Author:Amiri Baraka

“Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has been making albums since she was a tween. Grey and her mother sang as a folk duo under the name Generations; they released three indie discs. “I learned a lot about professionalism, how the show must go on even though I feel like [expletive] sometimes,” Grey remembers. “I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.”

“I just say what I think is the funniest thing I could say. I'm not trying to make headlines. I'm just trying to say the stuff that I think is funny and will make people laugh.”

People Thinking Trying Stuff Laughing Headlines Making People Laugh

Author:Amy Schumer

“I like to create stuff. I like to express myself through jokes.”

Stuff Jokes Stuff I Like

Author:Amy Schumer

“The secret of keeping young is to read children's books. You read the books they write for little children and you'll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old.”

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Author:John Cheever

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