All Quotes

In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel

In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.
‐‐ Kim Gordon

In a lot of the really impoverished areas of Johannesburg you see these packets of cheesy puffs which are like 6 feet long and the width of a basketball, and they're transparent and they have like 10,000 cheesy puffs in them, and you can buy that for like 50 cents. It's kind of a weird treat that you'd see people having in the townships.
‐‐ Neill Blomkamp

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.
‐‐ Sophie Turner

In a lot of ways, a lot of smells that aren't necessarily edible smell good, and they remind you of certain aspects of food. So making those associations with what smells good or smells a certain way and pairing that with actual edible ingredients is one avenue that we take creatively.
‐‐ Grant Achatz

In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.
‐‐ Eric Holder

In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
‐‐ Victoria Justice

In a lot of ways, if I were ambitious about anything - besides my career - I'd be ambitious about love. Ambitious in the sense that I really hope to find true love.
‐‐ Sonam Kapoor

In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.
‐‐ Dave Foley

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you'd get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it's hard work, almost harder once you're successful because you've got to maintain it.
‐‐ Steven Wright

In a lot of ways, the make-up was the character.
‐‐ Rick Yune

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.
‐‐ Maria Semple

In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.
‐‐ Cynthia Breazeal

In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.
‐‐ Russell Hornsby

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
‐‐ Christian Dior

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
‐‐ Akira Kurosawa

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.
‐‐ Maura Tierney

In a man, I look for a friend, someone who's equal, with whom I'm comfortable.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
‐‐ Erwin Rommel

In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.
‐‐ Tim Gunn

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
‐‐ Allen Tate

In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
‐‐ Uday Kotak

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
‐‐ Peter L. Berger

In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.
‐‐ Andy Garcia

In a mass television democracy - which all of us nowadays have - it is impossible to take basic political decisions with long-term consequences without the public knowing it, without the public understanding at least some of it, without the public forming its judgment, heterogeneous as it may be.
‐‐ Helmut Schmidt

In a mature economy like India's, which is becoming modern and a financially-oriented economy, an independent central bank, responsible central bank, is really central to success.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin.
‐‐ Thorsten Heins

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.
‐‐ Jonas Mekas

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
‐‐ Karl Lagerfeld

In a media culture, we not only judge strangers by how they look but by the images of how they look. So we want attractive pictures of our heroes and repulsive images of our enemies.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.
‐‐ David Leavitt

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
‐‐ Edmund White

In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well.
‐‐ George Packer

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.
‐‐ Stephen Hadley

In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
‐‐ Nate Berkus

In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
‐‐ Nate Berkus

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
‐‐ Pearl S. Buck

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.
‐‐ Rory Bremner

In a movie, it's often important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be 'read' by humans. And in the days before sophisticated computer animation, most extraterrestrial bit players were guys in rubber suits. Such practical considerations forced Hollywood's hand when it came to aliens - they look like us for good reasons.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.
‐‐ Eddie Murphy

In a movie that's sort of a single monster movie, like 'Jaws,' once you see the animal, it identifies the threat, and you're able to start working on ways to take down the threat.
‐‐ Colin Trevorrow

In a movie, that's the only time when you're allowed these kind of fantasies to be lived. Being able to look so cool and be able to fight five bad guys and take them down. When can you do that?
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
‐‐ Casey Affleck

In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents.
‐‐ John Sayles

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
‐‐ Daniel Clowes

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen