I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known. — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
Chin up, hands down, stance wide, feet flat. That doesn't work. All of that is wrong. — Anthony Smith Copy Share Image
If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Left to my own devices, I would go to bed at 2:30 or 3, but I can't do that if I'm getting up at 6:50! — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there. — James Van Der Beek Copy Share Image
We shoot a lot of pilots that don't get picked up, and no one ever sees them at all. — Annie Wersching Copy Share Image
I get up at five in the morning if the schedule demands it and with all my lines learned. — Robson Green Copy Share Image
I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never… — Magda Apanowicz Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to 'Planet of the Apes' and other scores, and it was fun for me because you weren't just… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
Growing up, I used to play in a lot of U.S.A. Camps and as a kid I used to play in Canton… — Dwayne Haskins Copy Share Image
I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
When I sit down to make a set list I usually think, 'We'll build it up here, take it down here, go… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
I just always feel that you need Degree deodorant when you have those moments whether they are embarrassing or whatever, but every… — Ashley Tisdale Copy Share Image
In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I have always been a fan of the horror genre, since I was five or six years old, watching movies like 'Friday… — Texas Battle Copy Share Image
When I say art influences me, which it does, it's not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions… — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image