All Quotes

A lot of praying helped me a lot.
‐‐ Nik Wallenda

A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.
‐‐ Joel Osteen

A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn't.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

A lot of producers and creative types want to see you be you. Throw something else out there and show them where you would take this part. A lot of them are launching shows for the first time, so they've got a lot riding on this, too, and they want you to be their flight.
‐‐ Michael Mosley

A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.
‐‐ Ryan Phillippe

A lot of producers don't have any musical education. I couldn't make the music I make without playing the piano.
‐‐ Kygo

A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I'm inspired by Timbaland and Pharrell and Swizz Beatz 'cause they're doing things that are so different. I like how they're introducing ideas I never would have thought of.
‐‐ Diplo

A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
‐‐ Gale Anne Hurd

A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.
‐‐ Garrett Camp

A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.
‐‐ Amanda Schull

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.
‐‐ Tom Colicchio

A lot of progressives really believe that if we can turn out one more white paper with bullet points about how to fix Problem X, we can fix it. But that's not primarily the way you reach people or move them. You reach the heart first.
‐‐ Robert Greenwald

A lot of prophets have gone to jail.
‐‐ Tommy Chong

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.
‐‐ Joel Osteen

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
‐‐ Billie Joe Armstrong

A lot of R&B cats are doing a lot of auto-tune. Tyrese went back to the basics. I love classic soul music and Ginuwine. Ginuwine and Usher laid the foundation back in the '90s. There's no one doing that anymore.
‐‐ Leon Bridges

A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.
‐‐ Ted Ligety

A lot of rap music can get repetitive.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.
‐‐ Al Yankovic

A lot of rappers been putting out a lot of sub-par visuals. I feel like the visuals could be better.
‐‐ ASAP Ferg

A lot of rappers don't have to go through what I had to go through as a singer. I was always in a bubble that they put me in, but I was always punching out. It was a tough line to walk.
‐‐ Mariah Carey

A lot of rappers say 'I'm talking about stuff that goes on, what I grew up in, that I know about.' And these journalists say, 'Yeah, but you're making 80 million dollars, that stuff's not about you.' Look how long he's been making 80 million. He grew up poor in an urban city and the things he's experienced and knows.
‐‐ Stuart Scott

A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act, in a way, on their behalf.
‐‐ Susan Minot

A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough.
‐‐ Bruce Nash

A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
‐‐ Val McDermid

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.
‐‐ Judy Davis

A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.
‐‐ Drew Houston

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.
‐‐ John Mellencamp

A lot of relationships have ended for me in my 20s, because I knew that eventually those people would wanna settle down and have kids.
‐‐ Jen Kirkman

A lot of reporters don't have conversations - they just fire off questions. I'm going to listen to what you're saying. If you start giving me a pat answer, I'm going to challenge you. That's where my sports background helps, because athletes do it all the time. So you have to stop them... and sometimes they're going to yell back at you. So what?
‐‐ Kevin Frazier

A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians.
‐‐ Susan Estrich

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
‐‐ David Lee Roth

A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

A lot of romantic comedies are just light romantic dramas, or the comedy comes off second-best.
‐‐ Graeme Simsion

A lot of rookies hit the wall after 50 or 60 games.
‐‐ Andrew Bogut

A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
‐‐ Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.
‐‐ Estelle

A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.
‐‐ Michael Gove

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.
‐‐ Kim Stanley Robinson

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.
‐‐ Stephen Jay Gould

A lot of scientists on Earth think of things that they could do in zero g. Things like the way metals cure, for example, and the way fluids react in space can tell us a lot about some of the unknowns we have on Earth.
‐‐ Kevin A. Ford

A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.
‐‐ Robert Carlyle

A lot of scouts said I was not capable to play short. Every team that came to me, they wanted me to play third, and I wanted to show everybody that they were wrong.
‐‐ Asdrubal Cabrera

A lot of scripts that I was given I didn't feel were right for me, because I didn't feel anything for them - I didn't feel like I was going to change in life and start directing.
‐‐ Anton Corbijn

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.
‐‐ Alice Temperley

A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.
‐‐ Ashley Benson

A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.
‐‐ Adam McKay

A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know.
‐‐ Denise Crosby