All Quotes

So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.
‐‐ Matthew Lillard

So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just don't find honest. I think it's this idea of - you know, we're told, well, 'Be a man, be a man.' But what does that mean, exactly? Does that mean you can't carry yourself with any fear? That you can't acknowledge that you're scared?
‐‐ Joe Carnahan

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.
‐‐ Tim Tebow

So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.
‐‐ Fatema Mernissi

So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.
‐‐ Dennis Muren

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
‐‐ Bill Sienkiewicz

So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there.
‐‐ Chris Milk

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
‐‐ George Orwell

So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
‐‐ Kevin O'Leary

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.
‐‐ Shawnee Smith

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.
‐‐ Loretta Swit

So much of life is what you roll and where you land.
‐‐ Mark Hamill

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.
‐‐ Conor Oberst

So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.
‐‐ James Cameron

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.
‐‐ John Benjamin Hickey

So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a kind of clarity. It is that discovery of the past in the present on which a writer depends again and again as if our lost childhoods, like the surprising cyclamen plant, are forever opening new blossoms.
‐‐ Susan Shreve

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
‐‐ Laurence Sterne

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
‐‐ Ralph Fiennes

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.
‐‐ Ron Perlman

So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.
‐‐ Lionel Richie

So much of my job is about finding another job, and that's really boring.
‐‐ Claire Danes

So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.
‐‐ Jennifer Ehle

So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.
‐‐ Jeff Gordon

So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends to write what she knows. In 'Revenge Wears Prada,' a great deal of my own life finds its way into the book.
‐‐ Lauren Weisberger

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.
‐‐ Tracy K. Smith

So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.
‐‐ Jessica Lange

So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.
‐‐ Lee H. Hamilton

So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformation, slanted even further through Victorian anti-Catholicism. The depiction of actual medieval attitudes toward the Church is remarkably rare.
‐‐ Judith Tarr

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.
‐‐ Kristin Bauer van Straten

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
‐‐ Edward Dahlberg

So much of our mythology around money centers on the illusion that if we had 'more,' we would be more comfortable and more able to access our creativity. But creativity and prosperity are spiritual matters, not fiscal ones.
‐‐ Julia Cameron

So much of performing is a mind game.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

So much of performing is a mind game. You're memorizing thousands of notes, and if you start thinking about it in the wrong way, everything can blow up in your face.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

So much of television is incredibly predictable. You watch the first five minutes and you know where it's going to go. If you can just create an element of surprise in both the storytelling and tone of a show, you're going to be way ahead of the pack.
‐‐ David Nevins

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.
‐‐ Marian Wright Edelman

So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produced in the domestic box office. For example, what we pay for a film three years later is highly correlated to how well it did in the box office.
‐‐ Reed Hastings

So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.
‐‐ Greg Graffin

So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.
‐‐ Libba Bray

So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.
‐‐ Pardis Sabeti

So much of the time spent on 'Zootopia' was inventing it. What does it look like? How does it work?
‐‐ Rich Moore

So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.
‐‐ Lee Strobel

So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

So much of what blacks and women contend with is centered in how we view, and how the world views, our bodies. Gestures, voices, affect.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

So much of what comes out of the faith community seems so dour and somber, and we want to say, 'Hey, we're real people. You can be a person of faith and really enjoy life and laugh.'
‐‐ Erwin McManus

So much of what happened to India late last year and early into 2011 is the same story we've seen with other big emerging markets, and that is that investors started to realize that the growth trajectory in India would have to get moderated by tightening policy.
‐‐ Jerry A. Webman