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I don't have kids, but in many ways I feel I've had them already. I don't want to say I raised my brothers - that sounds too strong - but actually I do feel like that a bit.

I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style.

I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

I want to try out for Playmate actually. I talked to one of the photographers about doing test shots.

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children.

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.

One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter.

I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

I actually haven't been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not.

When you make a 3-D movie you actually have to plan the way the visuals look because there's a parallax issue, and there's an issue of editing; you can't edit very quickly in 3-D because the eye won't adjust fast enough for it.

I just did something on a show on UPN called 'Girlfriends' that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.

Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.

Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

A distinguished producer called Kenith Trodd actually lived in his office for over a year - the cleaners refused to go in because it was such a tip.

I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing I'm concerned about is the NBA's image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then I'm all for it.

Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.

Britain, however, has ended up specialising in the ones you don't see as much of: defence aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 per cent of the world's mobile phones. And so there's a danger that because it doesn't have a British flag on it, people won't realise that we actually do produce value.

I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

I'm actually very good with Home Depot-handy type of paintwork.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.

I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two where you actually have an advantage and you can press it.

The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.

It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government can issue Treasury bills at extremely low interest rates.

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.

'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

I have met a couple of six-year-olds who were apparently quite excited to meet me - before they actually met me. And when they actually met me they ran behind their parents' legs and cowered for shelter.

There's just a feeling you get from certain things you do in life that just kind of feel pure and independent of what's actually, physically, going on.

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

If you walk into any bookstore, you can look at the newsstands and see which magazines are nationally-distributed, and you recognize certain names. Same with television. With the blogsphere, however, you actually have to dig, and know how to use multiple tools to figure out whom you should be speaking to.

I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?

But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.

Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.

I've actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows.

I was incredibly intimidated playing Lincoln Lee in the alternate universe, which was the first role I played on 'Fringe' because I was actually the head of a Fringe division and the head of a unit that was going out and I had to lead entire SWAT teams of people. I really questioned in myself, 'Can I carry that responsibility?'

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.

Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.

Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.

These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.

Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.

Actually, I have my own charity that I started that helps supplement families with terminal children.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure.

I'd definitely pose nude again. No qualms. I actually had my breasts done again. Just updated, like new tires.

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years.

We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

If I can be cruel; I'm not a big fan of the Audi R8, actually.

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

I actually just started home schooling. And it is great.