All Quotes

All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when constructing books, and I like the way in music that themes come back.
‐‐ Sebastian Faulks

All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care.
‐‐ Arundhati Roy

All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint.
‐‐ Anatoly Rybakov

All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

All my books are optimistic!
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?
‐‐ Ted Dekker

All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.
‐‐ Jesse Kellerman

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.
‐‐ Monique Roffey

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.
‐‐ O. R. Melling

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I often have to stop and look up stuff. At my local library, I am one of the best customers! The research takes several months.
‐‐ Linda Sue Park

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?
‐‐ Daniel Pinkwater

All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.
‐‐ Norman Wisdom

All my boys make me laugh.
‐‐ Liv Tyler

All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
‐‐ Ilana Glazer

All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
‐‐ Zendaya

All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys - I see 'em go here, I see 'em go there - but I just do my work.
‐‐ Jeff Fahey

All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
‐‐ Flea

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.
‐‐ Ryan Gosling

All my characters are me, in one way or another.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

All my characters have playlists.
‐‐ Michael K. Williams

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
‐‐ Gerald R. Ford

All my children inherited perfect pitch.
‐‐ Chevy Chase

All my children inspire me in life, and that always comes out in the writing.
‐‐ Paul Weller

'All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!
‐‐ Eva LaRue

All my clients eat. Madonna has a very healthy appetite. She doesn't eat processed food, she's very conscious of the quality of the things she eats but she has treats - she loves cupcakes.
‐‐ Tracy Anderson

All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.
‐‐ Shane Warne

All my collaborations happen in different ways. Sometimes it's through a chance meeting at a festival or event, while others can happen just off the back of me liking their music and reaching out.
‐‐ Kygo

All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collections.
‐‐ Dries van Noten

All my comrades must continue to exert their efforts according to my 'Programme of National Reconstruction,' 'Outline of Reconstruction,' the 'Three Principles of the People,' and the 'Manifesto' issued by the First National Congress of our Party, and strive on earnestly for the consummation of the end we have in view.
‐‐ Sun Yat-sen

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
‐‐ Yoko Ono

All my cousins are almost old enough to start seeing my movies. I'm going to have some 'splainin' to do.
‐‐ Evan Goldberg

All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.
‐‐ Gaby Hoffmann

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.
‐‐ Graham Norton

All my Doctor's said I should become a model.
‐‐ Niki Taylor

All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason.
‐‐ Jay Electronica

All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other people's backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.
‐‐ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'
‐‐ Dan Stevens

All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.
‐‐ Jack Kerouac

All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.
‐‐ Chet Faker

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.
‐‐ David Bailey

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
‐‐ Anna Jameson

All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.
‐‐ Ronnie Wood

All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came.
‐‐ Rebel Wilson

All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.
‐‐ Amanda Eliasch

All my fans are my girlfriends.
‐‐ Prince Royce

All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.
‐‐ Shannen Doherty

All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.
‐‐ Victoria Aveyard

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.
‐‐ Rian Johnson