I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that’s the type of music I grew up listening to. – Coco Lee
I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won’t do photographs. – M. J. Hyland
I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. – Francis Ford Coppola
Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination. – Paulo Freire
I do acupuncture. Because it really helps. It is the opposite of Botox. Botox blocks, and acupuncture moves. – Monica Bellucci
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist. – Martin Niemoller
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we’re not getting those things from our communities or from each other. – Naomi Klein
When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened. – Nicholas Brendon
I don’t want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn’t do anything for that. – Paris Hilton
Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it. – Maurice Gibb
The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them. – Pauline Hanson
No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
There was a time when I couldn’t watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise. – Phylicia Rashad
That was all very nice of them. They didn’t have to do anything because I wasn’t officially involved at all. – Michael Chabon
I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it’s what I do. – Nigella Lawson
Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them. – Joni Eareckson Tada
