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		I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alex Winston
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm pretty restless in bed, so I can lie there for a couple of hours and be like, 'Hey, that happened today. What if that happened at a zoo?' I'll jot the idea down. Then I'm like, 'All right, so now that it's a zoo, that penguin's loose,' or, whatever. I usually start with broad ideas.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anders Holm
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
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		I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. I'm very, very good at writing protocols. I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bram Cohen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Apolo Ohno
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Normally, I try to stay away from playing security guard-type characters, the stereotypical, big man fare. And I've been pretty blessed, man, and successful at getting out of the box.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Omar Benson Miller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I had the traditional print view of TV journalists: Those are pretty people who get paid a lot of money and don't do any work. It turned out I was wrong.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John King
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alice Eve
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Thom Yorke
			
			
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		I went into my own black-out period 1942-45 which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they’d get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn’t emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lee Krasner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I feel very fortunate for audiences to have been so gracious as to allow me to do pretty much any role that I felt I could do. They let me play a president. They let me play a lawyer. They let me play a hit man. They let me play a father. They let me play Howard Saint.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Travolta
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think I could probably make $5 to $10m movies for a very long time and live a perfectly good life doing it. I'd probably get paid as well as a surgeon, which is pretty damn remarkable for a guy who went to film school.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jeff Nichols
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Skarsgard	
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Melissa Auf der Maur
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joanne Harris
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		People can see through crap pretty easily. Just go out there and be comfortable. Be you. Be authentic.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dean Ambrose
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Cameron Mitchell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Keke Palmer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In everyday life, I'm pretty much T-shirt and jeans guy - a soft LnA shirt, cool APC jeans, Nikes or Jordans. If I'm going to an event I like to wear a suit, sometimes a three-piece. I'm into brands like Simon Spurr - I think he makes great suits - and Dior Homme.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bryan Greenberg
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The goblins want girls who dream so hard about being pretty their yearning leaves a palpable trail, a scent goblins can follow like sharks on a soft bloom of blood. The girls with hungry eyes who pray each night to wake up as someone else. Urgent, unkissed, wishful girls. Like Kizzy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Laini Taylor
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was a kid, I was mostly pretty sane. I've gotten more hypochondriacal.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ben Falcone