All Quotes

For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.
‐‐ Deborah Harkness

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
‐‐ Michelle Bachelet

For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular person in a particular situation; a unique, one-off motive that is born out of someone's particular range of psychological afflictions.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah

For me, a big thing, because I have really long legs, is core stability. It's very important not only for injury but also just to be able to carry my weight around properly and not feel like I'm collapsing in specific situations when I'm stretched out too far.
‐‐ Milos Raonic

For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly.
‐‐ Nick Rhodes

For me, a career highlight was being on 'Battlestar Galactica.' Roles like that don't come along very often.
‐‐ Michael Trucco

For me a day without training is like a day without eating.
‐‐ Haile Gebrselassie

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.
‐‐ Boman Irani

For me, a dream partner is someone who is willing to learn and to put their trust in me.
‐‐ Derek Hough

For me, a fragrance is another way of leaving an impression on somebody.
‐‐ Rita Ora

For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.
‐‐ James Herbert

For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.
‐‐ Karl Pilkington

For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.
‐‐ Dan Brown

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.
‐‐ Hallie Ephron

For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
‐‐ Fiona McIntosh

For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.
‐‐ Jill McCorkle

For me, a hearty 'belly laugh' is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
‐‐ Bennett Cerf

For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading.
‐‐ Sonam Kapoor

For me, a life without expectation results in a life with inspiration.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

For me, a lot of my work has dealt with what it means to be at the center of the universe and how alienating and kind of seductive it is. A lot of my work is very aggressive and very visual, but at the same time, it has a lot of tension in it and makes you kind of uncomfortable sometimes.
‐‐ Marco Brambilla

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
‐‐ John Cheever

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
‐‐ Paul Auster

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
‐‐ James Broughton

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.
‐‐ Tracy K. Smith

For me, a quarterback's best friend, especially a young quarterback's best friend, is a coach who believes in him.
‐‐ Robert Griffin III

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
‐‐ Joe Klein

For me, a show's a show. I try to put on the best show I can for whatever audience or time slot I get.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

For me, a snack is supposed to be unhealthy! I like having chips or popcorn when I'm on set.
‐‐ Sara Sampaio

For me, a stay at the Uma Paro with Pilates every morning is a perfect escape.
‐‐ Ben Elliot

For me, a story begins with music: I feel the rhythm, the cadence, the pulse of the characters and their voices and the setting. Because I had just finished writing a book called 'Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine,' I was already filled with the music of the lives and culture of the Irish people, so I thought, why not use it?
‐‐ Susan Campbell Bartoletti

For me, a thing must exist before I know it, but with God, it is different - he must know it before it has existence.
‐‐ Mother Angelica

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
‐‐ Jeffery Deaver

For me, a wake-up playlist completely depends on what mood I'm in. If I need to get into action pretty quick, it will be between Beyonce and Miles Davis. I'm a massive Beyonce fan, and all of her anthems will do it for me. And Miles Davis, because I grew up hearing his music because my dad played it a lot, so that will always be special to me.
‐‐ Laura Mvula

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
‐‐ Robert M. Pirsig

For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.
‐‐ Salman Khan

For me, acting goes to a special place; it's almost mystical. You have to let go of what you think is good; it's a jump into trust, and trying to reach without wanting too much.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche

For me acting is a passion and an art, and always will only be that. I don't have any rules when it comes to acting. I'll do anything. But it depends on the script. Either I'll have passion for the project or I won't. It's got to fuel me.
‐‐ Shailene Woodley

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.
‐‐ Ken Stott

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.
‐‐ Shailene Woodley

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.
‐‐ Giovanni Ribisi

For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
‐‐ Irrfan Khan

For me, acting is doing.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

For me, acting is like a holiday. When you're directing, you have a strong sense of responsibility for others. It's exciting but exhausting, especially when you're like me: always wanting to break the rules.
‐‐ Simon McBurney

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.
‐‐ Eva Green

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.
‐‐ Anson Mount

For me, acting was a reward. I had to get good grades in order to act, in order to be on TV. I had to do well in school so I could work. To me, it was like an after-school activity, something to look forward to.
‐‐ Kyla Pratt

For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.
‐‐ Ving Rhames

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage