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You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.
Damon Wayans, Jr.
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I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.


Bobbie Ann Mason
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Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all.
Laurence Yep
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I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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It's not easy to convey to someone who doesn't read comics just how Alan Moore has dominated the field since 'Watchmen.'
Susanna Clarke
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If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.


Casey Abrams
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Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also written a script about the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This will make me sound like a female Kenneth Branagh, but I can't think of anything nicer than directing myself from a script I wrote.
Honeysuckle Weeks
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There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'
Yolanda Adams
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I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.
James D. Watson
I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but it's to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.
Imogen Poots
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The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.
Tony Kushner
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I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money.
Geoff Dyer
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I read everything and anything. I love books.


Gail Porter
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My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.


Eddie Murphy
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People say that the Beavis voice doesn't sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.
Mike Judge
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I am friends with Demi. Don't believe anything you read.


Leonardo DiCaprio
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I never really think about what people are going to think of the movie afterwards. Or what people are going to call me. I just want to make a great project, and my focus is really all on that. And then I really don't read reviews. Like, you know, go on comment boards or anything.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
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None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well.
Cleo Moore
When I first released music, and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: 'I've never heard anything like this before; it's not in a genre.' And then my picture came out six months later: now she's an R&B singer.
FKA twigs
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I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.
Robert Gottlieb
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