All Quotes

After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.
‐‐ Jack Irons

After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.
‐‐ Clive Owen

After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

After writing for TV for a while, I got sort of fed up with all of the cancellations and the volatility in that industry. Also, you're always writing for someone else's character and story, and I really wanted to develop my own.
‐‐ Kristin Gore

After writing several chapter books, I found my true passion: historical fiction.
‐‐ Kirby Larson

After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't care about how their food was grown but who did care about their health.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

After writing two books featuring amazing dogs, I decided to be owned by one.
‐‐ Kirby Larson

After 'X Factor,' I got loads of gigs. Then I went on holiday just after the tour and bought my Rolex in Tenerife. I needed to go through that phase - splurge and see that it's worthless - to get it out of my system.
‐‐ Rebecca Ferguson

After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions.
‐‐ Cory Booker

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.
‐‐ Ethel Waters

After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
‐‐ Dana Carvey

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
‐‐ Dan Castellaneta

After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.
‐‐ Martha Reeves

After years of mass immigration, falling wages, and surging joblessness, isn't it time we focused on the needs of the people living here today? Isn't it time we got our own people back to work?
‐‐ Jeff Sessions

After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
‐‐ Iain Duncan Smith

After years of police work, officers often can't help but be influenced by the cynicism they feel.
‐‐ James Comey

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

After years of working in professional kitchens, and then spending so much time in a lot of different home kitchens, I realized that there's a huge gap in the market where you have people who develop cookware but who don't actually cook.
‐‐ Curtis Stone

After you date a player or two it's nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic.
‐‐ Angie Martinez

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times, and then one night it'll flop.
‐‐ Aziz Ansari

After you do a play like 'The Normal Heart,' it's hard to find something you feel so passionate about.
‐‐ John Benjamin Hickey

After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway

After you get what you want you don't want it.
‐‐ Irving Berlin

After you have been incarcerated for so long, whatever story is told in the aftermath is beautiful.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
‐‐ Morrie Schwartz

After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest.
‐‐ Marilyn Nelson

After you leave a show - any show, but for me especially after 'Breaking Bad' - you hope for a job to help soften the blow now that you don't have this amazing job anymore, and you hope that it's good.
‐‐ Betsy Brandt

After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.
‐‐ Common

After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.
‐‐ Joe Torre

After you play a part, you think of it as your own.
‐‐ Gena Rowlands

After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off camera as well.
‐‐ Amy Yasbeck

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
‐‐ Helen Gurley Brown

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.
‐‐ John Hartford

After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
‐‐ Benny Goodman

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.
‐‐ Elvis Stojko

After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an interesting... horrible, horrible time.
‐‐ Kim Gordon

After you've listened to it, you'll feel like you know us a little bit better.
‐‐ June Carter Cash

After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?
‐‐ Danny DeVito

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.
‐‐ Erle Stanley Gardner

After you win all these belts, you cannot fight all these mandatory guys.
‐‐ Lennox Lewis

After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend.
‐‐ George Foreman

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.
‐‐ Catherine Zeta-Jones

Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.
‐‐ Autre Ne Veut

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!
‐‐ John Gresham Machen

Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title.
‐‐ David Fincher