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I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.
Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.
Usually people are apprehensive about facing the camera for the first time. But for me, it was the most natural thing.
People send me songs all the time that are literally no-brainer hits... but for me, I'm an artist because I'm a writer.
I've told my agent to push the idea of me as a director for hire off the table. Otherwise, we're wasting people's time.
Solitude is very restorative for me, especially because I spend so much time around other people and performing to people.
I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.
I don't like new people coming around me. I'm going to really be leery and watch you and take my time before I embrace you.
Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
But just like I've always said when people complain about tee times, 'I just want a tee time. Just give me one so I can play.'
When I went to Boston, I tell people all the time, being able to be in that arena with those banners hanging up, it excited me.
People are all the time telling me stories: they named their son after me, or more than likely their dog. Or they got a tattoo.
I have people tell me all the time, 'I was expecting you to be mean.' Why is that? Because you saw me in a movie? That's acting.
We moan and groan all the time about a lack of involvement of young people. But they have taught me a lot about what moves them.
People ask me all the time, 'What is it like being on set for a show about trans people?' And this is a state of normalcy to me.
I never really wanted to be No. 1 and a big shot, have people playing up to me all the time. I wasn't comfortable with any of it.
Martin O'Neill let me go and he obviously felt that was the right thing at the time. But you go on and want to prove people wrong.
The first time I mentioned publicly that I had known Viola for some time, many people took it like Viola got me the job in 'Fences'.
People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.
A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.
The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.
I knew it was time to pack it in. I was in my 60s... I could still sing but I didn't want to get to that point where people feel sorry for me.
If I'm asking people to give me two hours of their time, it's because I really feel like they need to listen to what the writer is talking about.
Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
I hung out in Northeast Portland, I hung out in Beaverton. I knew a lot of people on every demographic. For me out there, I loved my time out there.
You've got something really angsty for me to play? Bring it on. Most of the time, I'm goofing around and doing impressions of people, so that's nice.
People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.
People see me as someone who doesn't take any crap from anyone - which I don't - but it's my shtick, and I obviously don't act like that all the time.
I wanted to put a song out there to let people know who I was and, at the same time, help me set apart from a lot of different people in country radio.
Even now, most people call me Joy or Joe Lee or Joey. It's all fine with me. The only time I correct them is when they refer to me as Spike Lee's sister.
I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.
I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.
Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.
I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.
I had no idea it was going to be like this. People come up to me all the time, but it's never, 'Oh, you're Sheryl Lee.' It's, 'Oh my gosh, you're Laura Palmer.'
In any event, I'm proud to wear the badge of jazz vocalist if that's what people want to call me; but at the same time, there are many other things I like to do.
People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor.
Every time I baked cookies for people as a kid, it made me so happy. But when I was in culinary school and working in fine-dining restaurants, that was not a thing.
I'm just me, all the time. People think, 'She must be an innocent little white girl when she's not performing or making videos.' But no, I'm me all year round, 24/7.
I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.
Every time I pull on a jersey, I know people are going to notice the name on the back, no matter was name's on the front. It is something which will always follow me.
Some people have asked me do you think I got David Haye at the right time, but nobody said it was the right time when he weighed in with a six-pack, looking fantastic.
I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits - I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.
Most of the time, I've got my kids with me, so I'm not as prone to meeting people. And then, you never really know if someone is talking to you because you're a celebrity.
People talk to me about celebrities all the time and which ones do I admire, and it's so hard because you can't tell who's doing it for themselves and who hired a stylist.
Sometimes, I don't like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs make me feel.
People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them. But I'm much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani.
Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get married in most parts of America. I'd go on a march for gay rights any time.