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“I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part of it was having my New Yorker editor and part of it is that was when I started really going on tour and reading things in front of an audience 30 times and then going back in the room and rewriting it and reading it and rewriting it. So you really get the rhythm of the sentences down and you really get the flow down and you get rid of stuff that's not important.”

Thinking Knows Writing Wells Important Reading Stuff Rooms Audience Fronts Flow Down And Sentences Rhythm Editors New Yorkers Rewriting

Author:David Sedaris

“Most of the time for movies and stuff, with the exception of Jeff Nichols, who I've worked with a few times, you just don't know people too well. Everyone is cordial and nice and some people are very genuinely friendly, but once the movie is over you never see them again.”

People Knows Wells Stuff Nice Exception Friendly Over You

Author:Michael Shannon

“Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.”

Knows Jesus Stuff Sky Century Changed Bird Climbs Pupils

Book:Alcools: Poems

Source: Alcools: Poems

“I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.”

Ifs Knows Want Wells Stuff Love Is Fame Actresses

Author:Sophie Okonedo

“It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.”

Knows Fun Stuff Acting Elements Dresses Costumes

Author:Gina Bellman

“Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.”

Knows Home Body Used Stuff Saws Dad Murder Patient My Dad Used To Be Shocked Alzheimer Alzheimer's

Author:Ellie Goulding

“Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.”

People Knows Reading Stuff Common Offers Refuse Miserable Pockets Verses Acquaintance Snuff

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers

“When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.”

Knows Important Stuff Information

Author:Toni Morrison

“Don't be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think you're working hard, there is always someone else working harder, so always be yourself and know your stuff.”

Thinking Knows Different Sometimes Hard Stuff Harder Being Yourself Being Weird Weird Stuff Always Be Yourself Your Weird

Author:Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

“You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor.”

Knows Trying Done Enough Stuff Hours Sleep Simple Havens Genius Get Better Endeavor Simple Things Brainless

Author:Randy Newman

“I've got such great people around me. They don't really care if they make me angry. A lot of teams, they're afraid to make the artist angry, because they don't want to get fired and all that stuff. My team's pretty good about letting me know when to get in line.”

People Ifs Knows Want Care Artist Stuff Lines Team Angry Great People Make Me Angry

Author:Justin Bieber

“A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.”

Knows Stuff Drag Airports Touring

Author:Joan Jett

“When a young artist asks me a question, I want to do what I can to give them an answer if I have it within me. I know what I know. I won't make up stuff. But if it's something I've been through, I'll share my experiences and tell them the truth.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving I Can Young Artist Asks Stuff Answers Share Ask Me Young Artists

Author:Michael Tait

“[In my bio] is no drunk driving, there's no DUI's, there's no possession of cocaine, none of that stuff so you know, I don't know if that's good or bad. Everybody loves dirty laundry.”

Ifs Knows Stuff Possession Driving Drunk Dirty Cocaine Laundry Bios Drunk Driving Dirty Laundry Dui

Author:Jeff Dunham

“I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.”

People Knows Feels Age Stuff

Author:Vanessa Bayer

“It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.”

Ifs Knows Littles Moments Seems Kids Next Stuff Animal Minutes Flower Caring Rage Adolescence Little Kid Hormones Stew

Book:Sugar Rush

Source: Sugar Rush

“[To her younger sister on using drugs:] If you do that stuff, you're dancing with the devil, because you never know when you're going to cross the line and not be able to get back.”

Ifs Knows Able Stuff Lines Drug Devil Crosses Dancing Get Back Younger Sister Dancing With The Devil

Author:Demi Lovato

“I believe in love, but I'm not sitting around waiting for it. I buy houses. I travel. I take jobs on mountaintops in Transylvania... I know that happiness comes in many ways and if you spend your life hoping to be found by or to find a significant other, you're going to miss out on all that stuff. And that's what makes you special and makes your life rich.”

“I actually have to pick and chose stuff that I know I'm going to bomb at.”

Knows Stuff Picks Bombs

Author:Kathy Griffin

“Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't know. It doesn't help that I'm lazy.”

Knows Way Writing Book Helping Stuff Response Lazy Considering Positive Response

Author:Jim Beaver

“When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.”

Knows Doe Matter Play Song Stuff Pay Records Influence Draws Dues Bars Great Things Tanks

Author:Eric Church

“I'm not even the coolest one of my friends. I'm just the guy who sat down and wrote everything down. Like I know plenty of people who do crazier stuff than I do.”

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Author:Tucker Max

“My buddies and I, we all went to law school together, and once we started working in different cities, we all did crazy stuff, and we'd write e-mails to each other about the stuff we would do. And my friends thought my e-mails were really funny and they said, "Dude, why don't you put this up on a Web site. You know people would love to read this."”

People Knows Writing Said Different School Together Law Stuff Cities Crazy My Friends Mail Site They Said Buddy Law School Love To Read

Author:Tucker Max

“I wouldn't know anything about opera music if it wasn't for Bugs Bunny. That was my entire introduction to opera music. I wouldn't know anything about classical music if it wasn't for "Fantasia." They didn't have to do that stuff. They chose to base this ridiculous, funny, intriguing, creative story on this beautiful classical music. It's the combination of the high and the low that I thought was very cool. But I had no concept of it as a kid.”

Ifs Knows Stories Kids Beautiful Stuff Creative Lows Concepts Ridiculous Combination Opera Bugs Introduction Classical Music Intriguing Bunnies Very Cool Fantasia

Author:Jon Hamm

“Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I'm an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I've got out there, I can't be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.”

Knows Men Way Feels I Can Country Stuff Fans Stuck Traditional Call Me Old Man Old Ways

Author:George Jones

“I guess the cool thing about the '80s is the kind of like adventure in terms of, you know, people were very willing to use sounds that were completely ridiculous or whatever. There was a lot of stuff happening in the '80s and it's all over the place. I guess that's probably the coolest thing for me and that's what I like about it. Just kind of that like, 'Oh, what's this sound? Oh that's wacky. Let's use it anyways.'”

People Knows Kind Use Stuff Sound Term Willing Adventure Happenings Ridiculous 80s Cool Things Wacky

Author:Emma Stone

“On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so on, that will compel the reader to continue reading - that stand a chance of really grabbing a reader - the writer has to work out of a place of, let's say, familiarity and affection. The matrix of the story has to be made out of stuff the writer really knows about and likes. The writer can't be stretching and (purely) inventing all the time. Well, I can't, anyway.”

Knows Wells Made I Can Stories Reading Stuff Chance Levels Reader Affection Work Out Likes Phrases Familiarity Stretching Inventing Grabbing

Author:George Saunders

“There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere.”

People Ifs Knows Kind Political Social Stuff Can Do Environment All Kinds Aggressive Naive Social Intelligence Political Environment

Author:Robert Greene

“I had to watch the Republican stuff which makes me feel even older than I am. By the time I get through the Democrats, I may be dead. I don't know how much older I can get.”

Knows Feels May I Can Stuff Watches Know How Republican Democrat

Author:Lewis Black

“Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Book Film Stuff Novel Crafts Indie Films Writing For Yourself

Author:Thomas Lennon

“For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.”

Knows Writing Stuff Sells Studios Lots Of Money

Author:Robert Ben Garant

“Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.”

People Knows Needs Persons Stuff Studios Mess Minefields

Author:Thomas Lennon

“Anchoring four hours a day, solo, you have to know your stuff. But I do. I'm a real geek.”

Knows Real Stuff Hours Four Solo Geek

Author:Nicole Lapin

“In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Self America Stuff Rooms Secret Fronts Honesty Performing Monkeys Bizarre

Author:David Wenham

“I don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy.”

Knows Doe Film Next Stuff Depends Heavy Regimes Workout

Author:Clive Owen

“I'm at a period in my life when I'm figuring out my idea of who I am and what I want and how to hold onto love -- all that big stuff. And I'm starting to realize that it can happen at any age. I know people who are in their 50s who are figuring out what they want and who they are, and I think it's great. It's like you're always approaching life as a beginner.”

People Thinking Knows Want Ideas Bigs Happens Age Stuff Realizing Like You Periods Starting Who I Am Beginners Big Stuff Approaching Life

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.”

Knows Should Dies Stuff Animal Tree Flower Bird Comes And Goes

Author:Joanna Lumley

“I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.”

Knows Home Girl Stuff Simple Cooking Cake Southern Pie Chill Baking Love Making Chilling Out

Author:Nicole Scherzinger

“I came away from 'Saturday Night Live' feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn't even know what it was.”

Knows Feels Wells Stills Feelings Wanted Night Felt Stuff Let Me Saturday Saturday Night Saturday Night Live

Author:Fred Armisen

“I go to movies and concerts and stuff - that's why I think all my money would be gone if I weren't working because I just keep spending it, on that, and CDs, and I don't know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Would Be Stuff Gone Spending Concerts Cds

Author:Nick Wechsler

“Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music.”

Knows Whole Would Be Wish Stuff Hair Band Evidence Police Bunch 80s Hair Bands

Author:John Sebastian

“I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different shit, you know what I mean?”

Knows Trying Mean Different Whole Actors Stuff Type Bunch

Author:Ice Cube

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

“If you're focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can tell you for our 12 years of existence, it's actually how a lot of stuff happens.”

Ifs Knows Years I Can Happens Stuff Sound Existence Rewards Focused Stuff Happens

Author:Tony Hsieh

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