What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
Adrian Lyne
I feel that losing both my legs was a blessing. It was meant to happen to me: I wouldn't have had the opportunity to touch so many lives in such a positive way.
Amy Purdy
You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'
Amy Tan
I don't think anybody submits their first story and sells right away.
Ann Leckie
I've actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I've played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of England. All sorts of different accents I've worked in.
Ben Barnes
The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
Benjamin Tucker
I'm somebody who has to physically experience an environment in order to know it as well as I would like to know it. I recognize this is impressionistic, not scientific. People say, 'You sound like Walt Whitman.' Well, I'll take that comparison.
Bill Bradley
I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.
Courteney Cox
As you get older, your idiosyncrasies become sort of exaggerated. So you are who you have always been, only more so.
Gemma Jones
The perfect striker does not exist.
Jupp Heynckes
I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
When I first learned I was pregnant with my son, I had only two firm convictions about parenting: I knew it was important, and I knew that I wanted to get it right. I was 29 at the time.
Kim Brooks
If you walk out of the house and you feel like you look good, it changes the way you walk into a room. It changes your attitude and it changes your vibe.
La La Anthony
I bought two sculptures of two baboons called Lord and Lady Muck on an antique piece of furniture from an art exhibition, and it was quite expensive. It was very expensive, actually - way too expensive.
Noel Fielding
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Richard Hamming
My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting', so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that's really it.
Wes Ball