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“We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.”

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Author:Jack White

“I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.”

Stuff Sensitive Medication

Author:Kate Walsh

“Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.”

Knows Stuff Simple Feminism

Author:Mia Wasikowska

“I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.”

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Author:Mike White

“I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.”

People Writing Seems Young Felt Stuff Smart Pulling Curtains Exposing Frail

Author:Mike White

“I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.”

Writing Trying Stuff Viewers

Author:Mike White

“That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.”

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Author:Walter Jon Williams

“I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.”

Stuff Tearing Apart

Author:Adam Yauch

“It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.”

Knows Wells Real Lasts Stuff Teaching Buddhism Organization Details Exposed Right Direction Tibetan Tibetan Buddhism

Author:Adam Yauch

“And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.”

Said Light Stuff Groups Shining Musical Styx

Author:James Young

“I was always tinkering around with stuff but nothing serious at the time. I was doing animations and drawing like crazy, but I wasn't imagining that I'd be performing music for people, that's for sure.”

People Stuff Crazy Serious Drawing Performing Animation Tinkering Performing Music

Author:Chad VanGaalen

“Admittedly, the masturbation story is just a "Hey, this is one of my best-of's, I'll throw it in the special." But the grandmother stuff, really, I feel like is part of the theme and part of the best way to end the story that I'm telling with the special.”

Way Feels Ends Stories Stuff Special Best Way Hey Theme Grandmother Masturbation

Author:Jen Kirkman

“I'm definitely in the market for being uncool. There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people that I have tattoos and cigarettes so that they know I'm badass. But really, I do have tattoos! And I do smoke cigarettes sometimes, and I can't change that. But I am not badass, by any means. I do some stuff that's tongue-in-cheek, and some stuff that's on the line. And it could be funny, it could be serious, and I never even know myself, because it could be funny that day, and the next day it's totally embarrassing.”

People Knows Mean I Can Sometimes Shows Next Stuff Lines Serious Tongue Smoke Cheeks Cigarette Tattoo Next Day Embarrassing Badass Can't Change Uncool Tongue In Cheek Funny Stuff

Author:Ryan Adams

“The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music...There's rock & roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town...There's so much fun stuff to get in to.”

Kind Country Fun Stuff Rocks Towns Nashville Fun Stuff

Author:Connie Britton

“Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.”

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Author:Thomas Frank

“Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.”

Writing Firsts Facts Certain Stuff Satisfied Finite

Author:Rose Tremain

“We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.”

Thinking Writing Trying Stuff Worry Too Much Sticks Ships Proportion Editors Envelopes

Author:Garrison Keillor

“At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.”

Should Shows Political Belief Left Felt Stuff My Own Should Have Grind Snl

Author:Al Franken

“I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what I'm giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff...what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.”

People Thinking Giving Feels Feelings Body Might Social Stuff Relationship Groups Acceptance Projects Fingers Things To Do Norm Manly Social Norms Social Acceptance

Book:Trouble (poetry, contemporary)

Source: Trouble (poetry, contemporary)

“The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.”

Life Reality Stuff Saved Superhero Santa Loving God Santa Claus Loving Him

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.”

Kind School Stuff Sports Middle Involved Drama My Friends Dancing Theatre Things To Do Middle School Cool Things Playing Sports

Author:Kara Lindsay

“Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.”

Literature Stuff Pieces Features More Time

Author:Kurt Loder

“The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.”

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Author:Melanie Lynskey

“I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.”

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Author:Al Franken

“I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.”

Film Stuff Developing

Author:Mike Leigh

“I had highfalutin ideas about being a serious actress when I was 16, 17, and first signed at Universal. I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.”

Ideas Stuff Paid Flattered

Author:Piper Laurie

“I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.”

Done Age Stuff Acting Nine

Author:Samuel Larsen

“I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.”

Done Character Film Stuff Roles Tvs Type Hollywood Theater Leading Ladies

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.”

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Author:Taylor Lautner

“I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.”

Done Stuff Acting Comedy Students Theater Instinct Enjoyed Dramatic

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.”

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Author:Aasif Mandvi

“Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.”

Needs Stuff Habit Yeah Radio Objectives Balanced Veteran Bad Habits Advocating

Author:Al Franken

“That's what's so cool about 'Once:' There is a layer of darker stuff, but it's balanced by this incredible light.”

Light Stuff Incredibles Layers Balanced

Author:Cristin Milioti

“I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.”

Ifs Giving Years Next Stuff Next Year

Author:David Morrissey

“I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.”

Looks Mean Hate Stuff Written I Hate

Author:J. J. Abrams

“The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, I loved that book.”

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Author:Isaac Marion

“I'm a ninja! I like swords and knives and stuff like that.”

Stuff Knives Ninja

Author:Isaiah Mustafa

“When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.”

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Author:Jack McBrayer

“The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.”

Reason Able Stuff Team Position Chairman

Author:Leslie Moonves

“From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.”

People Firsts Long Form Reading Stuff Space First Time Iphone Ipads Smartphones Desktop

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors - a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC.”

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Author:Matt Mullenweg

“One time I semi-wrecked my uncle's truck. He told me to back it up into a ditch, but my foot slipped and I gunned it a little too much. But now I use one foot, and I do not run into stuff - at least I try not to.”

Trying Littles Use Running Stuff Too Much Feet One Time Uncles Truck

Author:RJ Mitte

“What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Children Facts Stuff Fantasy Likes Labels Crossover

Author:Robin McKinley

“I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn't necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved.”

People Country Wanted Moving Found Stuff Creative Wife Moved My Wife Texas Creative People

Author:Scoot McNairy

“It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care.”

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Author:Aimee Mann

“When I get home after being away for work, my wife always stuffs the fridge with loads of what she calls 'nibbles' - all the great things you can eat straight from the fridge, like chunks of cheese, slices of ham, bowls of hummus.”

Home Stuff Wife My Wife Great Things Load Bowls Cheese Chunks Ham Fridges Hummus

Author:Alfred Molina

“I’m going to do a lot of weird stuff that’s not going to be like me prancing around like an insane 12-year-old. I showed everybody that side of me and I think it’s time to do different stuff, even when it comes down to the type of humor. I want to do some drier, weirder stuff.”

Thinking Want Years Different Stuff Sides Type Like Me Insane Weird Stuff Prancing

Author:Andy Milonakis

“I love fashion. I like looking fresh and wearing new stuff.”

Stuff Fashion New Stuff Love Fashion I Love Fashion

Author:Austin Mahone

“I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.”

People Mean Hate Stuff Sports Comedy I Hate Motor General Motors

Author:Bernie Mac

“It's always fun when you're doing the CGI stuff, to actually get to work with someone who is real, who's there.”

Real Fun Stuff Cgi

Author:Breckin Meyer

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