All Quotes

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
‐‐ Quentin Blake

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.
‐‐ Kim Weston

A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
‐‐ Natalie Jeremijenko

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.
‐‐ Matthew Barney

A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
‐‐ Dan Colen

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.
‐‐ Alexander Wang

A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.
‐‐ Dan Colen

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.
‐‐ Jeff Koons

A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.
‐‐ Dan Colen

A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.
‐‐ Robert Carlyle

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
‐‐ Maya Lin

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.
‐‐ James Ransone

A lot of my writer friends live near me, and that makes people think we just hang around with one another in cafes, trading work and discussing 'Harper's' and what not. But I rarely see them. We're home working.
‐‐ Colson Whitehead

A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
‐‐ G. Willow Wilson

A lot of my writing comes from the themes of my life, and a lot of that stems from my faith. I also strive to be a light through which Christ can shine, whether it's through the way I dress, though my videos, or through my music.
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.
‐‐ Suzanne Vega

A lot of my writing is wish-fulfilment, making things the way I want them to be.
‐‐ Michelle Paver

A lot of my YA novels are about family problems.
‐‐ Susan Beth Pfeffer

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
‐‐ Maynard James Keenan

A lot of nasty and untrue things have been said about me.
‐‐ John Higgins

A lot of nasty things were said about me in my own party about my unwillingness to demand the government shutdown.
‐‐ Cory Gardner

A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players.
‐‐ Stephen Pagliuca

A lot of negative stuff has happened to me - that's why I'm tough - but I don't want people to be like, 'Oh, poor Becky,' because I'm not a victim.
‐‐ Rebecca Ferguson

A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.
‐‐ Adora Svitak

A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, 'I speak Klingon - who am I fooling? You win! I'm just gonna openly like what I like.' Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves.
‐‐ Patton Oswalt

A lot of new dads don't realise that you can't take your 5-year-old along to see something like 'The Avengers.' Modern superhero films are too violent, and the dialogue is far too convoluted for a child.
‐‐ Rhys Darby

A lot of new genres were being born at the time I started going out to clubs in South London, and I was part of an exciting movement that has now blown up around the world.
‐‐ Jamie xx

A lot of New Jerseyans... have been very supportive of me.
‐‐ Rodney Frelinghuysen

A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.
‐‐ Patrick Rothfuss

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
‐‐ Nate Silver

A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.
‐‐ Terence Stamp

A lot of newsrooms have thought very carefully about how they cover race. I don't think the same conversations have gone on regarding women.
‐‐ Nicolle Wallace

A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
‐‐ Val Kilmer

A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with my son.' They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents' age.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

A lot of other bands have tried to go out there and say we've got views on this and views on that. But some of it I've found opportunist. Duran Duran has always been honest about everything. We've always laid everything out.
‐‐ Nick Rhodes

A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment.
‐‐ Glenn Hughes

A lot of other reality shows on television can be bullying and aggressive, but we wanted 'The Bake Off' to be an antidote to that.
‐‐ Mary Berry

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.
‐‐ Rick Wagoner

A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies.
‐‐ Ted Sarandos

A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.
‐‐ Deborah Harkness

A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.
‐‐ Heather Donahue

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.
‐‐ Jon Hurwitz

A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.
‐‐ Uday Kotak

A lot of our happiness is derived from experiences, not from buying products. People are twice as happy buying experiences as products. People are happy buying experiences. They don't want something that's commoditised.
‐‐ Ruzwana Bashir

A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They want to express themselves and see their own identity refracted through the museum's.
‐‐ Jake Barton

A lot of our music came out of a lot of weird psychology and weird emotions. When you play the whole body of work, you get tossed all over the place. It's not easy listening. It's not even comfortable to listen to.
‐‐ Dave Davies