All Quotes

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
‐‐ Laurie Anderson

As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
‐‐ Natasha Lyonne

As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.
‐‐ Moby

As a newcomer to America who learned to 'speak American' by watching movies, I firmly believe that to change the politics of immigration and citizenship, we must change culture - the way we portray undocumented people like me and our role in society.
‐‐ Jose Antonio Vargas

As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland.
‐‐ Allison Tolman

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.
‐‐ Gabrielle Union

As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law.
‐‐ LZ Granderson

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.
‐‐ Philip Yancey

As a note, I never once refer to 'Train' as a game in the rules, and I also never refer to the participants as players.
‐‐ Brenda Brathwaite

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
‐‐ Taiye Selasi

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
‐‐ L. Neil Smith

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.
‐‐ Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.
‐‐ Elizabeth Strout

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.
‐‐ Juliet Marillier

As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.
‐‐ David Nicholls

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

As a novelist, I remain interested in the notion of a single reckless act and its consequences.
‐‐ Anita Shreve

As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.
‐‐ Graham Swift

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
‐‐ Martin Cruz Smith

As a novelist, I tend to know significantly more about my characters than I do about my friends.
‐‐ Michelle Huneven

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.
‐‐ Chris Bohjalian

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.
‐‐ Amy Waldman

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.
‐‐ Lynn Coady

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
‐‐ Barack Obama

As a number of people have stressed over the years, I think it would be premature to assume science itself will explain everything.
‐‐ Simon Conway Morris

As a painter, it seemed easier to sort of disappear.
‐‐ Troy Garity

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
‐‐ Bridget Riley

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.
‐‐ Sylvia Kristel

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
‐‐ Eric Alterman

As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.
‐‐ LZ Granderson

As a parent, I can get so frustrated. Any parent can!
‐‐ Christy Turlington

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.
‐‐ Alan King

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.
‐‐ Diane Keaton

As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.
‐‐ Dee Bradley Baker

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.
‐‐ Susan Cain

As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
‐‐ Sam Harris

As a parent myself, I can appreciate the MPAA and what they're supposed to do, but what happens with NC-17 is that the MPAA is basically taking away the rights of parents. They're basically telling me that I can't show my kids this movie if I decide they can see it.
‐‐ Derek Cianfrance

As a parent, the most responsible thing I can do is get as much information about my children as possible so I can then think through how I can make them as healthy as possible.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism.
‐‐ Deron Williams

As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children's music. I couldn't find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic.
‐‐ Allen Covert

As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion.
‐‐ Sarah Shahi

As a parent, you have to be good coach and bad coach, and I think in the college-application process, I didn't want to be bad coach. 'This is amazing! I'm so proud of you!' That's the role I wanted with my kids.
‐‐ Laurene Powell Jobs

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.
‐‐ Joan Cusack

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.
‐‐ Spike Jonze

As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.
‐‐ Tom Udall

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.
‐‐ Tom Brady