All Quotes

A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
‐‐ Alan Alda

A really great reception makes me feel like I have a great big warm heating pad all over me. People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.
‐‐ Judy Garland

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have no responsibility to anyone but myself and the subjects.
‐‐ JR

A really important thing when you come up with a concept is that you solve a pervasive problem for people, and you don't try to create a new way to do something that isn't necessarily broken.
‐‐ Nick Woodman

A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of £40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely.
‐‐ James Fenton

A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
‐‐ Rachel Hurd-Wood

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
‐‐ Carly Simon

A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across.
‐‐ Monica Dolan

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.
‐‐ Lord Hailsham

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.
‐‐ Bhagat Singh

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.
‐‐ James E. Faust

A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.
‐‐ John Shadegg

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.
‐‐ Dennis Miller

A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state.
‐‐ Mark Kennedy

A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.
‐‐ Curtis Jackson

A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.
‐‐ Timothy Ferriss

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
‐‐ Pat Conroy

A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
‐‐ Bee Wilson

A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
‐‐ Danica McKellar

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
‐‐ Alfred Nobel

A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.
‐‐ Mickey Gilley

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.
‐‐ John Lydon

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

A record is a message, timeless.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.
‐‐ Norah Jones

A record isn't like a movie - you can get it together pretty fast.
‐‐ Steve Martin

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.
‐‐ Mark Morris

A Redskin is a football player.
‐‐ Daniel Snyder

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
‐‐ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
‐‐ Lydia M. Child

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
‐‐ Jose Bergamin

A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.
‐‐ Jeremy Rifkin

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
‐‐ Bo Bennett

A relationship book I once read told women to use the word 'fun' whenever possible. The author claimed it had a subliminal aphrodisiac effect on men, who want a relaxed girl attached only to good times - the human equivalent of Diet Coke. This is not me.
‐‐ Julie Klausner

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It's a real emotional ride.
‐‐ Drake

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.
‐‐ Eric Braeden

A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.
‐‐ Joan Cusack

A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
‐‐ Candice Swanepoel

A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.
‐‐ Susannah York

A relationship is sent by God and accident.
‐‐ Fiona Shaw

A relationship is work, and it changes. And you go with the changes. It's more good times than bad times, but it's not always good. You have to overcome those issues and move on.
‐‐ David Burtka

A relationship isn't a priority of mine but, you know, I'm hoping soon enough.
‐‐ Nyle DiMarco

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.
‐‐ Greta Scacchi

A relationship takes time, and you really have to work hard at it. I'm devoted to my profession, but when I find the right guy, I'll work just as long and hard for him.
‐‐ Moran Atias

A relationship to me is never about the romance.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie