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Like most people, I had several awakenings.
‐‐ Jidenna -
Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.
‐‐ Steve Carell -
Like most people, I have several pet subjects - that may or may not be interesting to other people. Don't get me started on happiness, or habits, or children's literature, or Winston Churchill, unless you really want to talk about it.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin -
Like most people, I'm fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.
‐‐ Chang-Rae Lee -
Like most people, I used to wear clothing off the rack. But having them fitted to me makes a really big difference, especially with pieces like a cocktail dress. Little nips and tucks can take 10 pounds off you.
‐‐ Lauren Conrad -
Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.
‐‐ Steven Van Zandt -
Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin.
‐‐ Nina Garcia -
Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
‐‐ Bruce Coville -
Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression.
‐‐ Christopher Moore -
Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.
‐‐ Ira Glass -
Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes, that's it.
‐‐ Anna Paquin -
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.
‐‐ Stanley Elkin -
Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
‐‐ Patrick Carman -
Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen -
Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.
‐‐ Aravind Adiga -
Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.
‐‐ Julian Lennon -
Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.
‐‐ Katori Hall -
Like most plutocrats, I, too, am a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, cofounded or funded over 30 companies across a range of industries. I was the first non-family investor in Amazon.com. I cofounded a company called aQuantive that we sold to Microsoft for 6.4 billion dollars. My friends and I, we own a bank.
‐‐ Nick Hanauer -
Like most readers, I tend to skip the acknowledgements at the beginnings of books: the 'To-My-Wife-Without-Whose-Invaluable-Assistance' kind of thing.
‐‐ Gore Vidal -
Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited... It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia -
Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld -
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke -
Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.
‐‐ Stephen Furst -
Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
‐‐ Nancy Meyers -
Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it.
‐‐ Tony Iommi -
Like most thoughtful people who watch what's going on in Washington, venting is very necessary.
‐‐ Howard Fast -
Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.
‐‐ Karen McDougal -
Like most women, I have days where I feel like today I'm not leaving the house - you know days where you've got a spot on your nose or when you've just got off a flight, eaten fish and chips and feel really bloated - that one happens a lot to me.
‐‐ Lara Stone -
Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?
‐‐ Chris Abani -
Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard -
Like most writers, I read deeply into the genre in which I write.
‐‐ Jonathan Maberry -
Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner -
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
‐‐ Steven Moffat -
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter -
Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.
‐‐ Greg Iles -
Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States.
‐‐ Dennis Cardoza -
Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives.
‐‐ Chris Chocola -
Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue.
‐‐ Natalie Cole -
Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.
‐‐ Nick Park -
Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy.
‐‐ Michael Douglas -
Like my father, Trump also understands working-class Americans.
‐‐ Paul Manafort -
Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.
‐‐ Patton Oswalt -
Like my fictional protagonist Tom Thorne, I love country. My tastes go back a bit further than his do, and I still listen to stuff from the late '70s and early '80s.
‐‐ Mark Billingham -
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 'tap-dancing to work.'
‐‐ Bill Gates -
Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.
‐‐ Michael Cunningham -
Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends.'
‐‐ Matthew Perry -
Like my makeup, I keep my hair simple. It's either down or in a ponytail.
‐‐ Behati Prinsloo -
Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.
‐‐ Meghan O'Rourke -
Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.
‐‐ Liz Murray
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