All Quotes

A lot of who I am is in the work I do.
‐‐ Drake Bell

A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.
‐‐ Jimmy Chin

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
‐‐ Edward Norton

A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

A lot of women act like it's the easiest decision, and I'm just going to have a baby and put my life on hold and not be worried about it. Well, I was worried.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario

A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
‐‐ Nawal El Saadawi

A lot of women are in a crazy exercise cycle; they're so afraid they'll gain weight if they stop, and it's especially hard when they get pregnant. What they need to realize is that if you're not exercising so much, you don't have to eat so much, and your body adjusts. It sounds so simple, but you really do have to listen to your body.
‐‐ Courtney Thorne-Smith

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.
‐‐ Helen Reddy

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.
‐‐ Lil Wayne

A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.
‐‐ Picabo Street

A lot of women don't like when they're sort of fat, but a fat foot is as beautiful as a skinny foot. Think of Greek statues. Look how many people love the foot of the baby! There is something super-charming about the baby foot.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

A lot of women don't realize that even a small heel helps you throw your shoulders back and keep your chest up; it really does make a difference in the way you present yourself. It changes your posture and makes you look more confident.
‐‐ Stacy London

A lot of women feel ashamed to be weak.
‐‐ Rosie Perez

A lot of women feel like they should be enjoying motherhood, they should be fulfilled and shouldn't be thinking, 'I wish I didn't have to do this.'
‐‐ Sophie Hannah

A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
‐‐ Kate Reardon

A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
‐‐ Victoria Pendleton

A lot of women lose definition around their waist as they get older, which can mean their bottom half can look shapeless.
‐‐ Marie Helvin

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.
‐‐ Neil Strauss

A lot of women read male magazines. Of course, a lot of guys read female magazines, but they've got another issue to deal with. But a lot of women read men's magazines and think, 'Oh, this is what these guys are thinking? Studying up on the enemy here.'
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix.
‐‐ Delta Burke

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan.
‐‐ Marion Jones

A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.
‐‐ Gabrielle Union

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.
‐‐ Ani DiFranco

A lot of women use pregnancy as an excuse to let their bodies go, and that's the worst thing.
‐‐ Tracy Anderson

A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

A lot of women will be sort of 'competitive like a guy' in the workplace, but then when they go home, they realize that's not fully authentic for them. They would like to have a more expansive or more authentic relationship in the workplace around competition.
‐‐ Michael Gurian

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.
‐‐ John Mellencamp

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
‐‐ Laurie Anderson

A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that I've practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and it's something I take pride in being able to do.
‐‐ Avicii

A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television - by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame - has always called my name. And after seeing 'True Detective,' can there be any doubt that the storytelling on TV is as genius as it gets?
‐‐ Luanne Rice

A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading.
‐‐ Kathryn Harrison

A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.
‐‐ Ian Rankin

A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.
‐‐ James Patterson

A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things.
‐‐ Jonathan Ames

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.
‐‐ Tea Obreht

A lot of writers want everything put on screen, but it doesn't work like that. The screenwriter brings her own imaginative interpretation, just as the director and actors do.
‐‐ Susan Hill

A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.
‐‐ Damon Lindelof

A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.
‐‐ Pete Townshend

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.
‐‐ Jonathan Ames

A lot of writing is thinking.
‐‐ Horton Foote

A lot of writing's going down dead ends that don't go anywhere.
‐‐ Andrew Dominik

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.
‐‐ Charlotte Rampling

A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
‐‐ Daniel Boulud

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.
‐‐ Terence Stamp

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.
‐‐ Sofia Coppola

A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing.
‐‐ Rhianna Pratchett

A lot of young girls who came to see me in 'Legally Blonde' have come to see 'Hedda,' and they hadn't heard of the play either, just like I was before I did it! If I can bring a younger generation to see an Ibsen play; that's just brilliant.
‐‐ Sheridan Smith