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People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.

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• In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Favorite
  • Grammar

• The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.

  

  Bar Paly
  • People
  • Strong
  • Me

• When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Money
  • Woman
  • Fame

• I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Often

• I'm very religious.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Religious
  • Very

• I'm taking a vow not to advise.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Taking
  • Advise
  • Vow

• I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Music
  • Art
  • Me

• If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • You
  • Like
  • Talk

• In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • War
  • Movie

• There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Children
  • Night
  • Page

• What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation - but I'm not sure it actually has. I'm not sure there's been a huge change in the pantry at home or what we cook for supper.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Home
  • Food
  • Change

• I haven't worn one for a long time, but I look pretty good in a suit.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I work out sort of moderately.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Work
  • Workout
  • Out

• Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

  

  Abraham Maslow

• Ist es denn wirklich so, dass wir jeden Dreck, der vom Westen kommt, nu kopieren müssen? Ich denke, Genossen, mit der Monotonie des Je-Je-Je, und wie das alles heißt, ja, sollte man doch Schluss machen.

  

  Walter Ulbricht

• The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Mind

• I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Life

• The silent majority is back, and we're going to take the country back.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country

• Though watching porn may seem degrading to some women, the fact is that it's one of the few jobs for women where you can get to a certain level, look around, and feel so powerful, not just in the work environment but as a sexual being. So, fuck Gloria Steinem.

  

  Jenna Jameson
  • Work
  • Women
  • May

• I continue coupling a plate of silver with one of zinc, and always in the same order... and place between each of these couples a moistened disk. I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks.

  

  Alessandro Volta
  • Fingers
  • Silver
  • Metal

• When I started playing music, it was natural for me to make passionate, heavy, electro rock. It was in my musical DNA.

  

  Ryan Shuck
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Started

• My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two people realize what they meant for each other - and that goes across all media, books, TV, movies, personal essays; everything.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • Passion
  • Like

• People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.

  

  Cat Power
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