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"I`m working on a demo and putting down tracks this week, actually. I write all my own music. It`s like Sheryl Crow`s and Joni Mitchell`s stuff. I`m totally staying away from the Britney Spears thing - I don`t want to be marketed and packaged".

- Bethany Joy Galeotti

I`ve learned something in the last few years that I really didn`t know about myself as an actor. I basically learned how to stay happy. It`s important for me to be happy working or I feel resentful. I don`t like it. I hate myself. What I know now is that I really need to love the director. I need him to be a good parent. And then I will lie down on the train tracks for him and go to the ends of the earth for him.

- Jodie Foster

(on the rape scene of Deliverance (1972) (from the book "My Life" published by Hyperion.)): The day before we shot the scene I noticed McKinney hovering beside Ned (Ned Beatty) and sat down between them. I wanted him to see I was Ned`s friend. No different than in the script. Then I asked him how he planned to handle the rape scene. McKinney turned out to be a pretty good guy who just took the method way too far. Staring straight at Ned, he whispered, "I`ve always wanted to try that. Always have." Ned shouted, "John! Oh, John!". In his brilliance, Boorman (John Boorman) reassured Ned but also brought in several additional cameras, knowing Ned wasn`t going to give him a second, third or fourth take. Ned was only going to do the brutal scene once. When it came down to shooting it, Cowboy and McKinney were hands-down brilliant. Scared the shit out of everybody who saw the movie. People crawled out of the theatre. None of that creepy "squeal, piggy, piggy" stuff was in the script. But McKinney, I swear-to-God, really wanted to hump Ned. And I think he was going to. He had it up and he was going to bang him. It`s the first and only time I have ever seen camera operators turn their heads away. Finally, I couldn`t stand it anymore. I ran into the scene, dove on McKinney, and pulled him off. Boorman, hot on my tracks, helped hold him down. Ned, who was crying from both rage and fear, found a big stick and started beating him on the head. Half a dozen guys grabbed Ned and pulled him away. We separated the two of them and let things cool off.

- Burt Reynolds

She was a sweet girl, but when she grew up I started to have a crush on her which lasts to this day. I also chose her film name. She was known as Horowitz and I said she should change it. We were listening to a lot of Doors music, including the tracks Riders On The Storm, and I said she should change her name to Rider with a Y. The next thing, she`s Winona Ryder. No one believes me, but that`s the truth.

- Charlie Sheen

I`m still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn`t feel like she belonged.

- Faye Dunaway

Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.

- Jennifer Lopez

(Recorded in 2004 at Chaos and Order Basscamp Studios during Cena`s rare breaks from the ring, YOU CAN`T SEE ME features 17 original tracks. Paying tribute to the classic two-man rhyming crews of the past, Cena and Tha Trademarc (Marc Predka) nimbly trade verses throughout the album.) You almost never hear a rap crew today working like EPMD or 3rd Bass, ... I wanted to bring that style back a little and get away from one MC up there doing his thing. Working this way let us attack a song from different directions and create a more dynamic flow.

- John Cena

Since my first hit, I can`t believe how quickly time has passed. This collection is very dear to me and holds a lifetime of memories. There is nothing like time to give you a sense of perspective and I hope the listener gets as much enjoyment out of these tracks as I do. I feel lucky to have had the opportunity to experiment throughout the years and that my fans have embraced the need in me to try new approaches. I am just as excited about the new tracks featured here as I am about all the others on the record. At this point in my career, I am happy to celebrate the past and look forward to the future. (on her 2004 greatest hits compilation Ultimate Kylie)

- Kylie Minogue

There`s always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.

- Laura Dern

When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn`t there.

- Paul Simon

The person that probably stopped me in my tracks as a child - because I used to love to go to the cinema - was David Lean with Great Expectations (1946). I thought everything was somehow better than most of the other movies in terms of the way it looked - the way it was dramatised and the way it was photographed. In fact he was detailed from corner to corner and that is what I picked up with John Ford and then Kurosawa (Akira Kurosawa) - then Carol Reed, Michael Powell - those were all the fundamental characters at that time - and Orson Welles of course. There are Frenchmen too of course who will be remembered as well but I wasn`t open to the French cinema at that point - so it was American and English film directors - so those were the influences.

- Ridley Scott

(Becoming a movie director) "There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam--we were supposed to write a 20-page report on this book about Houdini (Harry Houdini). I probably would have loved reading it, but I didn`t, so I just decided to make a little super-8 movie based on it. I tied myself to the railroad tracks and all that. I mean, this is kid stuff, but it impressed the teacher, and I got an A. And that was maybe my first turning point, when I said, `Yeah, I wouldn`t mind being a filmmaker.` "

- Tim Burton

People used to laugh at me when I walked around tracks trying to pass out my business card. We probably won`t beat Tony Stewart, but that`s not going to stop us from giving it 100 percent.

- Carl Edwards

I`d rather drop dead in my tracks one day than end up in a wheelchair in some nursing home watching interminable replays of The King and I.

- Deborah Kerr

(on Max Ophuls) A shot that does not call for tracks is agony for dear old Max.

- James Mason

Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they`re within range, you`re dead, you`re dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it`s WHACK!

- Steve Irwin

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels` tracks behind me in the snow.

- Agnetha Fältskog

A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn`t hear it that way. I`m not a songwriter.

- Charlie Watts

Besides the two Christmas things, we`ve got a about a dozen new tracks we`re working on.

- Chris Frantz

After Dark Side we were really floundering around. I wanted to make the next album more musical, because I felt some of these tracks had been just vehicles for the words. We were working in 1974 in this horrible little rehearsal room in Kings Cross without windows, putting together what became the next two albums, `Wish You Were Here`, and `Animals`.

- David Gilmour

If I was out there, yeah, it would be tempting to at least take a practice lap for old time`s sake. It`s a shame it`s going away, it`s well known nationally as one of the toughest short tracks around, and the reputation is deserved.

- Ernie Irvan

We offer insight on exactly what is involved in the industry. We represent singers and songwriters, but also producers, engineers and a whole bunch of career tracks that people can take.

- Jimmy Jam

When you shoot a musical, you`re shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

- Norman Jewison

To be on a track with Les is a great thing to be able to say. They ran about five tracks past me, and I picked `So Into You` (originally performed by Atlanta Rhythm Section). Everyone loves that track.

- Peter Frampton

He really gets the music. He`s obviously listened to those tracks enough to be able to really understand what it`s about.

- Steven Page

Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that`s looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I`m putting the tracks together.

- Thomas Dolby

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

- Claude Chabrol

The basic tracks I originally cut on a computer at my house, and then I over-dubbed it live. But I got the feeling I wanted here on the computer.

- Ike Turner

I had a very good package for Phoenix, but at other tracks we do not have the power. The Brazilian Grand Prix was maybe closer to the reality.

- Jean Alesi

However I am looking forward to the two new Grands Prixs; both Shanghai and Laguna Seca are fantastic tracks and it will be good to race at them.

- Valentino Rossi

I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for.

- Suzi Quatro

I`m not following anybody`s tracks, I`m making my own baby.

- Picabo Street

It`s going to be a crapshoot at Talladega. It always is. It doesn`t matter where you start at places like this and Daytona. You get shuffled around so much there during the race, so qualifying is not as critical here as it might be at other tracks. The important thing is to be there at the end and see what happens. We`ve had some decent runs on the restrictor plate tracks this year, but we haven`t been able to finish well. We`ve run up front at times and the cars have been good. Hopefully, we can miss everything this weekend and get a good finish.

- Bobby Labonte

Nowadays, as they`ve been working on the cars and the quality control is getting a lot better, there`s not a really a big difference. The cars are built specifically for different types of race tracks, whether it`s a high-travel track or low-travel track, and that`s what they go by. They go by data. It`s past me, way beyond me now. But as far as me saying I`ve got a favorite car, they`re getting stuff more consistent. I don`t really see that anymore. They all seem to run about the same - unless they`re purposely trying to make one differently, which they can do very easily.

- Ricky Rudd

I`m working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together.

- Irvine Welsh

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- Matt Walsh

It`s a groundbreaking song. There were never tracks like that in hip-hop, I should say, history before. It`s all about me. It`s so, like, strings and it`s so freaking gangsta at the same time. It`s how I wanted to come out.

- Miri Ben-Ari

Yeah I`m still writing. I`ve got about 14 tracks now. But we`ve been on tour so we haven`t had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

- Ville Valo

We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

- Wayne Coyne

There were layers of reasons why we did the re-recordings, but one was that we could hand over our tracks and let new acts we rated do something interesting with them.

- Jon King

We had a really good test there last month so I don`t see any reason why Ricky wouldn`t have a shot at the win. It`s one of his favorite tracks and this whole team is determined to get a victory in these final five races.

- John Quinn

It`s learning you. It`s delivering the music you like and tracks your interaction with the music.

- Jeff Williams

Track accountability is the best way to describe it. You`re looking to see which dog accounts for the most tracks in the smoothest manner.

- Ed White

When we drove out, there was some fresh snow, but the roads were not icy. You could see the tire tracks where he left the black pavement and just drove straight into the Cessna.

- Bob King

It was a tornado. We dove between the railroad tracks and the concrete wall. Things were swirling all over us.

- Johnny Johnson

They believed what (the original tracker) identified as places that would have been a boy crawling up the side of the hill were in fact, in their opinion, bear tracks going up and down.

- Justin Smith

You want to take the most direct route. It doesn`t make sense to come through the Altamont and divide the tracks in three different directions to serve three different cities.

- James Webb

I preferred measuring deer tracks, to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

- Sam Houston

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.

- Tina Brown

I love the way Pharell is laying down great drum tracks. He is a great drummer.

- Matt Cameron