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“I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his father to take it out on his father for naming him Sue. And his father says, "Look, I knew I wasn't going to be around. So I gave you the name so that you would grow up strong enough to take the hits and fight back." So I like to believe that's why my parents gave me this stupid name.”

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Author:Domhnall Gleeson

“I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».”

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Author:Natalie Portman

“I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.”

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Author:Natalie Portman

“I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.”

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Author:Natalie Portman

“For me, the best characters are the ones that feel fully formed inside and out, so I try to have a very clear vision of exactly what they would wear, top to bottom, who they are, what their backstory is, what their family situation is, who are their friends, just creating as much of a three-dimensional character [as possible]. Because I think you could do a very broad character, but as long as there's some emotional truth to them you can get away with really crazy things.”

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Author:Nick Kroll

“I try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once.”

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Author:Joseph Altuzarra

“I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and be a little bit fit because there's usually one scene in a movie where you've got to run, which means you've got to run for about five hours nonstop. So, for me, it's just worthwhile being fit because doing a movie can be kind of grueling for six, seven, eight weeks. Or 12 weeks.”

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Author:Guy Pearce

“I've learned from the past that it's important to recharge and get time in-between jobs, and if I can't get time in-between jobs then when I know I've got some time coming up at the end of a job, really try and take advantage of that. And do very mundane things at home and putter in the garden and spend time with family and make music and, you know, play with the dogs. Just get back to being me.”

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Author:Guy Pearce

“What can I do to make sure that middle-class families are feeling more secure, that more young people are able to access opportunity, that we are safe, that we are working with our international partners to try to create more order at a time when there's a lot of chaos? How do we deal with terrorism in a way that's consistent with our values? As long as I stay focused on those north stars, then I tend not to get too rattled.”

“I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.”

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Author:Quincy Jones

“I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou shalt' and 'thou shalt not', and established Goodness and Evil. That's what all religions do, and as soon as we try to replace them, worldly religions like fascism and communism take over.”

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Author:Gerhard Richter

“Now you know you're going to have to play music for the label, you know you're going to have to get an opinion from the manager. Now, I'm so much more conscious and it bothers me. I try to find my way back to writing without being too analytical or not thinking about whether this is good or is it bad.”

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Author:Yukimi Nagano

“My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.”

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Author:Yukimi Nagano

“There's something really precious in that - if you try to tame something that's meant to be wild you wind up jeopardizing the nature of why it exists.”

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Author:Mikky Ekko

“When I started that's how I wrote because I didn't know any better. I was just like "I want to make music." Then there were all these things that I learned to get myself over certain humps, but I think it just comes down to: do I have something to say or not? If I'm feeling something I should try to get that out, and maybe it's not words, but trying to turn it into something.”

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Author:Mikky Ekko

“Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective as trying to sell it.”

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Author:Todd Rundgren

“I'm dead against the idea that you should try to "cure" people of being gay.”

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Author:Ian Mckellen

“I try and stay away from my comment section on Twitter. But for the most part, the response that I get usually is very positive - and so it's nice.”

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Author:Candice Patton

“Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.”

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Author:Gwen Ifill

“I used to be really influenced by Brian Bendis, back in his indie days. But I guess I try to tone that down.”

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Author:Bryan Lee O'Malley

“I love New York, and I would love to try to live here for a while if I ever got the chance, but it's also extremely hectic. I don't think I would cope with that.”

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Author:Alicia Vikander

“The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.”

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Author:Tove Styrke

“I needed to get to know myself and really, really explore music without any pressure to sell it. I wanted to try and not restrain myself at all, so I've been trying to move quite freely between different sounds and genres.”

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Author:Tove Styrke

“I try to give everyone options because no matter what you think you're going to wear, what you actually put on depends totally on how you feel.”

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Author:Kate Hudson

“I am a classical fan. I like Debussy a lot, so I was trying to learn it on the piano. I've learned like a third of it, but I think I'm getting to a section that may be beyond my skill level.”

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Author:Charlie Day

“I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was true of the essay, too. If you'd actually tried to be true to the essay, it would have been, perhaps, boring. So taking that narrow little cast of characters and expanding it out, that was what was exciting about the project for me.”

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Author:Jonathan Franzen

“I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.”

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Author:David Heyman

“You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.”

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Author:Lucy Liu

“When you have a clear idea of what your character is trying to accomplish, it makes it a lot easier to riff on things.”

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Author:Glenn Howerton

“I'm happy to try any genre, from drama to comedy and anything in between. Although, to be fair, for most of my career, I've been at the mercy of what people are willing to put me in.”

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Author:Chris Pratt

“I think I'm scared a lot. I'm scared of almost everything. And I'm constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it's a present, past, or future relationship.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.”

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Author:Iris Apfel

“Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.”

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Author:David Hare

“I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it’s possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It’s very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.”

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Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“You don’t think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It’s the same kind of feeling. I’m just in it. It’s not the words, it’s not the sentences, I’m not aware of it. Then it’s good.”

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Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it.”

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Author:David Hare

“It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.”

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Author:David Hare

“As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be Sean Penn, but I didn't have all the words to be Sean Penn. But I was trying to do something different in every role.”

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Author:Matthew Lillard

“I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it.”

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Author:Taylor Momsen

“I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.”

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Author:Jonathan Nolan

“посол Ирака говорит Our fight - the fight is against ISIS as an entity, as an identity, and as a threat to our culture, our heritage and certainly for the minorities who it's been able to exterminate or try to enslave and others.”

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Author:Lukman Faily

“When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if it didn't work out, I'd put my nose to the grindstone and try to find a job somehow. I went to UCB, and it clicked with me.”

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Author:Ben Schwartz

“With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.”

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Author:Lake Bell

“In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.”

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Author:Cam Gigandet

“I feel like social media is a great thing. I try not to go on it too much.”

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Author:Kaitlyn Dever

“If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.”

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Author:John Waters

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