All Quotes

As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don't think I'm alone - genres are all about boundary drawing, and the YA genre is, in a lot of ways, about carving out boundaries around adolescence, a space for teenagers to do teenage things.
‐‐ Robin Wasserman

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.
‐‐ Eliot Spitzer

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.
‐‐ Nic Pizzolatto

As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.
‐‐ John Eisenhower

As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling it as an intervention for humans, even though there may not be evidence it works.
‐‐ S. Jay Olshansky

As soon as a job finishes, I am done with it. When I'm really, really enjoying the job, I love the job, I want it to end because it's supposed to.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.
‐‐ Robyn Hitchcock

As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.
‐‐ John Muir

As soon as a roast is announced, I get everybody - family, friends, waitresses, cab drivers - giving me jokes about the person getting roasted. I'm the mouthpiece for the masses.
‐‐ Jeff Ross

As soon as anybody puts anything on film, it automatically has a point of view, and it's somebody else's point of view, and it's impossible for it to be yours.
‐‐ Crispin Glover

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
‐‐ Otto Wallach

As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.
‐‐ Danny Bautista

As soon as he thinks about the record, he's finished. The secret is to put it out of your mind.
‐‐ Just Fontaine

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.
‐‐ Christopher Columbus

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.
‐‐ Melissa Auf der Maur

As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles.
‐‐ Ray Liotta

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.
‐‐ Helen Hunt Jackson

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
‐‐ Kate Smith

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.
‐‐ Max Cannon

As soon as I check into a hotel, I get butt naked and I watch super trash TV like 'Storage Wars' and 'The Bachelor.'
‐‐ Mary Lambert

As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.
‐‐ Elle Varner

As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
‐‐ Katarina Johnson-Thompson

As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over how weird I sounded - like an old man when I was just a toddler! But no one was gonna shut me up.
‐‐ Valerie June

As soon as I did, everything, the whole room, just clicked.
‐‐ Glenn Quinn

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.
‐‐ Jimmy Carr

As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.
‐‐ Mark Wahlberg

As soon as I feel people are talking too much about my character, it's time to leave.
‐‐ Chris Noth

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
‐‐ Buchi Emecheta

As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.
‐‐ Marla Gibbs

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.
‐‐ Richard Helms

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.
‐‐ John Kricfalusi

As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.
‐‐ Julie Walters

As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don't let myself get bored. I just go surfing.
‐‐ Joel Parkinson

As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
‐‐ Quvenzhane Wallis

As soon as I get in a rhythm, I'm very hard to stop.
‐‐ Liam Smith

As soon as I get into my house, I put on sweats and pyjamas.
‐‐ Suki Waterhouse

As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.
‐‐ Tom Felton

As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
‐‐ Laura Dekker

As soon as I get time, I want to start to do some fight training. I tried a little boxing once with my personal trainer back in L.A. - it's such a good workout, and it's a good skill to have, especially in my industry, since sometimes you have to do stunts and fight scenes.
‐‐ Katia Winter

As soon as I go into a dark subject, like discussing the people I've loved and lost, I off-road into absurdist comedy perversion. It's both a means of protection and a kind of denial, a blessing and a curse. Wait, it's not a blessing at all. I guess it would be a bad habit and a curse.
‐‐ Bob Saget

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.
‐‐ Frank Black

As soon as I got my proper first job, I never did acting again. I think the last thing I did was a Mike Figures film, and then I got a series with the BBC. I'm glad of the experience, because I think it's very, very good to understand what actors go through.
‐‐ Justin Chadwick

As soon as I got off the plane in L.A., I heard they'd cast the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy and that it was all being shot in New Zealand! That was pretty ironic.
‐‐ Martin Henderson

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
‐‐ Babe Ruth

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.
‐‐ Billy Connolly

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.
‐‐ James Durbin

As soon as I had a child, he became the priority. Now, I fit my training around him. I've changed as an athlete.
‐‐ Jessica Ennis-Hill