All Quotes

A lot of bad things happen in lame duck sessions.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
‐‐ Alex Kapranos

A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it.
‐‐ Glenn Tipton

A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country.
‐‐ Lee Konitz

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.
‐‐ Dimebag Darrell

A lot of bands would be aching to be in the position we are.
‐‐ Robert Cray

A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted to see if I could tell an honest, organic story about characters that interest me.
‐‐ Martin Donovan

A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what's going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.
‐‐ Ludacris

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.
‐‐ Adam Rich

A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.
‐‐ Malin Akerman

A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl.
‐‐ Estelle

A lot of biopics to me feel very much like someone is standing in front of the camera and is reading a Wikipedia page to you, like someone is reciting event. Did you know this happened? Did you know that happened? But Alan Turing's life deserved a sort of passionate film, and an exciting film.
‐‐ Graham Moore

A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
‐‐ Magic Johnson

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
‐‐ Toni Morrison

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.
‐‐ Lauren Groff

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.
‐‐ Christopher McQuarrie

A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

A lot of brands, you can't touch them. When you're dealing with Snoop Dogg, he brings you closer to the brand and it feels like it's a part of you.
‐‐ Snoop Dogg

A lot of British actors will look at America as such a land of opportunity. In England, there's such a small pool of working actors of color. There's such a small amount of work that is actually produced in the first place.
‐‐ Aml Ameen

A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.
‐‐ Ira Glass

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
‐‐ Deborah Kass

A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
‐‐ Nancy Reagan

A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
‐‐ A. J. Bowen

A lot of campaign lexicon is very militaristic - even the term 'campaign.'
‐‐ Robby Mook

A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

A lot of cats are not that social.
‐‐ Jack Hanna

A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.
‐‐ Kathy Griffin

A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties.
‐‐ Sam Simon

A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.
‐‐ Daniel Boulud

A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.
‐‐ Nicholas Hoult

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.
‐‐ Emmanuel Jal

A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fairy. She's the pin-up girl of fairies. She's the ultimate fairy, but she's also got a mischievous spirit and she's very strong-willed. I think a lot of youngsters recognize themselves in Tinker Bell.
‐‐ Michael Sheen

A lot of children can go back and look at their childhood and find reasons why it wasn't perfect. But why whine about something no one can fix? You deal with it.
‐‐ Junior Seau

A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.
‐‐ Katherine Heigl

A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
‐‐ Patti Smith

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.
‐‐ Heather O'Neill

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Wood

A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.
‐‐ Donnie Yen

A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins.
‐‐ Rob Bell

A lot of Christians look at Hollywood as the ultimate evil. But what it did for me is it sharpened my ability to love people and appreciate people, no matter where they're at in their lives.
‐‐ Jonathan Jackson

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.
‐‐ Joel Osteen

A lot of cinematic influences on 'Descender' - Kubrick for sure. '2001: A Space Odyssey' is my favorite movie. It has been since I was 12. I just love that film.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire

A lot of coaches have come up to me and liked the way I played.
‐‐ Richard Sherman

A lot of comedians are selfish.
‐‐ J. B. Smoove

A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.
‐‐ Hannibal Buress

A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.
‐‐ Allan Carr