Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
‐‐ Karan Johar
Because I was traveling a lot during the '70s, the only thing I could do on the road was take photographs, so there wasn't much painting during those years.
‐‐ Sigmar Polke
Because I was very big and she was very small, my mother had a horrible birth when I was born. So she always said: 'I'm never having any more kids!'
‐‐ Jasmine Guinness
Because I went from the 'Daily Show' where I was a fake news guy on a fake news show, to 'Bruce Almighty' where I played a news guy, to 'Anchorman' where I played a news guy, now I'm... yeah, I tend to gravitate towards suits.
‐‐ Steve Carell
Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist - it wasn't just about painting, it was about media and performance.
‐‐ John Van Hamersveld
Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.
‐‐ Melissa Rosenberg
Because I work on leukemia, the image of cancer I carry in my mind is that of blood. I imagine that doctors who work on breast cancer or pancreatic cancer have very different visualizations.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee
Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.
‐‐ Marilu Henner
Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.
‐‐ Geraldine Brooks
Because I would give it all back to have my health.
‐‐ David Gest
Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them.
‐‐ Jim Capaldi
Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?
‐‐ Denise Mina
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'
‐‐ Kate Atkinson
Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action.
‐‐ Denise Mina
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
‐‐ Ben Folds
Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.
‐‐ Christopher Walken
Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.
‐‐ John Singleton
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman
Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.
‐‐ Christiane Amanpour
Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.
‐‐ Minoru Yamasaki
Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.
‐‐ Meg Whitman
Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. But if you've got a weak foundation you can't build anything.
‐‐ Jack Scalia
Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.
‐‐ Milos Forman
Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.
‐‐ Mark Cuban
Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.
‐‐ Julia Cameron
Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.
‐‐ Dee Dee Myers
Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
‐‐ Morrie Schwartz
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
‐‐ Gerry Mulligan
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
‐‐ Bernard de Mandeville
Because in a split second, it's gone.
‐‐ Ayrton Senna
Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.
‐‐ Radha Mitchell
Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes.
‐‐ Luka Sulic
Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.
‐‐ Diane Wakoski
Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli
Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot.
‐‐ Ivan Lendl
Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help.
‐‐ Herman Gorter
Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.
‐‐ Mohamed El-Erian
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
‐‐ Johannes Tauler
Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer
Because Iranians have had to fight so long and painfully for political freedom, they have a deep appreciation for its value - perhaps deeper than many in the West who take their electoral rights for granted.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
‐‐ Abu Bakar Bashir
Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.
‐‐ Adelbert von Chamisso
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
‐‐ Christopher Lasch
Because it flew without a pilot, the D-21 was designed to fly over territory where the U.S. was denied access and to take photographs of weapons facilities from altitudes as low as 1,500 feet. But the project was canceled on July 30, 1966, after a fatal accident at sea during the drone's first official launch.
‐‐ Annie Jacobsen
Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
‐‐ Damon Hill
Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis
Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.
‐‐ Ikue Mori
Because it's difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it's difficult to have a career, it's even harder for women, for all the other reasons that it's harder in other fiercely contested fields.
‐‐ Elizabeth Price
Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis