K. A. Applegate Quotes
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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I've always been a huge reggae fan.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
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Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.
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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
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I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.
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My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.
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If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
