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I used to work at my dad's peanut mill, and worked 15 hours a day, 6 days a week. So, now, riding around on a nice tour bus and doing shows, you'd have to get picky to have a downside.Luke Bryan
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Like, I haven't even tried a cherry before, because I'm such a picky eater, and I behave like a 9-year-old.Lil Dicky
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.Rachel McAdams
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I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.Sam Elliott
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My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky.Jason Wu
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Bollywood is not a stepping stone to the West. I am extremely picky and in no hurry to sign a Hollywood film. I am only greedy for great roles; language and country is no barrier. And yes, I'll always be a Hindi film star first.Priyanka Chopra
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I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically.Peter O'Toole
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Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio - I'm not picky, I'll just turn it on and see what comes up. I burn a yummy lavender- scented candle.Carrie Underwood
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I've seen such great material, and now I'm more picky with the type of jobs that I take because it's gotta be there. There's an old theater saying: 'If it's not on the page, it's not on the stage'... You gotta have some type of standards as far as the jobs that you take and the roles that you take on.Jovan Adepo
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I'm just a slow writer. I'm picky and careful and fastidious.Frank Peretti
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I was an infamously picky eater as a child but also had an infamous sweet tooth. All I wanted was dessert for every meal of the day.Christina Tosi
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I'm pretty picky about plays.Joan Allen
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I don't know a single actor who is not picky.Akshaye Khanna
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I'm very picky about who we tour with.Wayne Static
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I am open to all scripts and I am not very picky.Catherine Tresa
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I am very picky, there is no point in just doing any old thing, you have to love it.Amanda Redman
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I'm actually so simple with food, even if I just have rice and chicken every night, it's not a big deal. As long as I have my sweets. That's where I'm picky.Ajla Tomljanovic
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I remember getting out of acting school and friends of mine talking about, like, 'You know, I don't think I'm gonna do TV.' Like, people putting on these airs of being picky. And I was never a snob about it.Adam Scott
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I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.Bobby Bonilla
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I was a very picky eater.Alice Waters
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I'm very picky; I'm never happy with anything. It's so hard to give the record away and accept that you're done.Aurora
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For storytellers, financiers make ideal rogues. The easiest way to make characters unappealing is to make them rich - shorthand for spoiled, picky, superior, and cold-hearted.Lionel Shriver
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Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand. - Mike Trout
Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand.Mike Trout
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I know I might sound a little bit picky, but someone like a muse who can inspire me is my ideal type.Ji Chang-wook
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I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening.Sherilyn Fenn
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I'm really picky.Seann William Scott
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I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about once every five years.Evangeline Lilly
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Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don't necessarily think of it spiritual guidance.Julia Cameron
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I'm like a connoisseur of dry shampoo, so I'm really picky.Khloe Kardashian
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I'm not going to be very picky. If something comes to me and I want to do it, I'll do it.Cobie Smulders
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I'm not too picky. I'm not waiting, sitting around for the ideal and perfect role. I like to work, so I try to make the best of whatever opportunity comes up.Christopher Lloyd
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Most people don't know I have a weird pregame meal. I'm picky, so all I eat are grapes and a hamburger with nothing on it. I get the meat, the bun - that's it.John Wall
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We become like the five people we spend most of our time with; Oh, we've got to be picky, and you might have to fire a few people who don't belong in that inner circle because they can't help you be your best and further your purpose.Harris Faulkner
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I'm very picky with what I do.Adam Pearson
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I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.Ophelia Lovibond
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I'm very picky and very particular.Bianca Belair
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Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I'm not picky. I never think, 'Oh, this neck isn't made of ebony,' or, 'These strings don't feel correct.' It doesn't matter too much.James Hetfield
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I'm picky about skin care because I hate perfumes or anything that says 'It will take away all the lines on your face.' I don't want to do that. But I do use Kiehl's and this skin cream called Restorsea because it makes my skin look nice and feel soft.Justine Bateman
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Every interview I do, it's basically 'how did he do it,' and I owe it all to my representation, and my manager is basically like my mother, she's so picky.Jamie Bell
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My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher, and there was nothing really modern that went on under their roof. We watched television, but they were very picky about what we could watch - old Westerns and stuff that wasn't vulgar or violent at all.Jason Isbell
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I'm ruthlessly picky when it comes to the crafting of an album, the choosing of musicians, the right mikes, the right studios. There was a time when it was, 'whatever you want.' Then, as you learn a little bit more about your tastes, I don't give in to that kind of thing.Josh Groban
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Acting never was about the money for me... Maybe in 10 years, I'll be able to appreciate the fact that I am financially stable and independent and I don't have to make bad choices. I can be very picky.Emma Watson
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I'm not picky. When I'm hungry, I eat.Sidney Crosby
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I have a lot of fake food in my apartment, but I'm picky about it. Old plaster food, like from the '50s is really nice, hollowed out paper-mache food from old plays - the new stuff just looks too good.Amy Sedaris
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I'm so picky. People hate going to the movies with me. - Margaret Murray
I'm so picky. People hate going to the movies with me.Margaret Murray
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I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything.Zooey Deschanel
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As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.Jonathan Levine
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Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.Victoria Pendleton
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I grew up eating anything at any time and going straight on court. So I'm not really that picky.Caroline Wozniacki
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I'm pretty picky about what I do and who I work with, for better or for worse.Natalie Prass
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I'm not picky; I'll get it how I can take it. Submission, KO - whatever it is, if it has me winning, I'll take it.Brian Ortega
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If anyone has an MiLB franchise they're looking to gift for tax purposes, I'll take it! Not picky.Scott Rogowsky
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When it comes to creation, I am open. However, I am extremely picky when it comes to who I create with.Sabrina Claudio
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I used to do my own makeup for all my shows because I'm so picky with my face.Latto
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I'm so picky about my fragrance.Jenna Ortega
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I think people are really picky about English accents. When a Brit comes over here and kind of does an OK American accent, everyone's like, 'You were great! Fantastic!' But in England, even if you were doing a pretty good accent, they're like, 'But where are you from?' 'London.' 'What part of London?' Accents are really precious over there.Lee Pace
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Fashion people are picky.James Jebbia
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I am very picky with my career. I don't need to do it for the money or the fame. I'm very choosy, which is why I haven't played the typical role that people expect to see from someone of my stature and size, as the mean jock or the preppy. It's very easy to see me like that. That's why I go against it in different roles.Kellan Lutz
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You've got to be picky in this business - if you're not, then I don't think you have the option of longevity. You've got to be choosy and try and do something that's outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush.Aaron Paul
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I don't want to be picky and say that I only want to do films. - Nikita Dutta
I don't want to be picky and say that I only want to do films.Nikita Dutta
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