I don't believe that competitions are important.
Eddie Izzard
Recitation: by Male by Female
My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.
John Lautner
WorkFatherMotherVacationDoing
I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.
Robert Smith
WalkPastDoorSomeonePhoneRing
Like most people, I find watching the lazy and quiet underwater realm of a big aquarium exceptionally calming.
Michael Dirda
PeopleFindQuietLazyWatchingBig
I truly feel like my job is to make the shows. That's what I'm paid to do. It's somebody else's job to market them, and it's somebody else's job to pay attention to the ratings, because if I paid attention to all that, my head would explode.
Shonda Rhimes
JobFeelAttentionPay AttentionPay
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star.
Tracy Morgan
LifeFatherMeBetterMy LifeRock
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
Tom Shadyac
TruthPeopleTruth IsNobodyOwn
What you have with the Bond movies is this character gliding over everything. The fact nothing touches him is why we all want to be him. But it also makes him a sort of superman who in the end you don't really relate to.
Robert Wade
CharacterBondEndYouWantMovies
I did things like get in a cupboard before the teacher came in at the beginning of a lesson, and then, two minutes before the end of the class, I come out of the cupboard and go, 'Sorry I'm late.'
Miranda Hart
TeacherBeginningSorryEndLesson
When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.
Joseph Barbera
SleepingDrinkingAnimatorsWere
The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.
Chris Hardwick
CreativeSurvivalMovementComics
There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.
Paul Theroux
MomentHatThinkRock StarRock
I feel like I've got a pretty relatively extensive Christmas sweatshirt collection.
Kyle Mooney
FeelChristmasPrettyI Feel Like
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