For me, graffiti and the complexities with which it is either absorbed or expelled from what is going on, is a really good comparison to the way I see my work being similarly expelled or absorbed into different types of discourse.
‐‐ Richard Phillips
For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
‐‐ Barry McGee
For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
‐‐ Taylor Swift
For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.
‐‐ Susanne Bier
For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was very desolate.
‐‐ Shane Koyczan
For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.
‐‐ Chris Pine
For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.
‐‐ Shyam Selvadurai
For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski
For me, growing up in Detroit, scarves meant cold weather. But I remember working in a store, and we had some silk scarves - like, wide scarves with fringe - and because I had seen the English rockers wearing skinny silk scarves, I took the scarves, cut and sewed them, and made them long - almost like a tie.
‐‐ John Varvatos
For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.
‐‐ ASAP Rocky
For me, growing up in Los Angeles in the '90s, Huell Howser was the most consistently watchable entertainer on TV. I was more of a radio geek as a teenager, but Huell I watched whenever I got the chance. A lot of us did.
‐‐ James Adomian
For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges
For me, habit is just a synonym for death.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche
For me, hair is an accoutrement. Hair is jewelry. It's an accessory.
‐‐ Jill Scott
For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.
‐‐ Conrad Veidt
For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.
‐‐ Ken Kercheval
For me, 'Harry Potter' isn't something that changed my life. It's just something I did that was a lot of fun and I got to experience amazing things from. But my actual, personal life is the same. Or at least I like to keep it the same.
‐‐ Matthew Lewis
For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
‐‐ Kate Bush
For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.
‐‐ Alice McDermott
For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.
‐‐ Randy Travis
For me, having greek yogurt and some granola is the perfect start-up breakfast because it has many benefits. Its filling, healthy and gives me energy to start my day.
‐‐ Shantel VanSanten
For me, having it all doesn't mean having the corner office at work and a penthouse at home if there aren't kids running around as I'm trying to cook my husband something special.
‐‐ Mika Brzezinski
For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.
‐‐ Tyler Hamilton
For me, healthy eating and exercising is something I work on constantly. I'm not the most disciplined dieter. I try to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables but sometimes late at night I tend to have fast-food meals - and that's where I get myself into trouble! So I'm not in the best shape I could be, but I'm still healthy and comfy.
‐‐ Fergie
For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.
‐‐ Alice Sebold
For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
‐‐ Xavier Dolan
For me, history is always personal. And it's how your personal history interacts with the history of your time. I'm very attracted to characters who were cursed, as the Chinese say, to live in interesting times.
‐‐ Tom Reiss
For me, honestly, it's not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It's about what I've got to do and how I can contribute to the team.
‐‐ Sheryl Swoopes
For me, honestly, one of the first movies I did I was always pounding coffee, and I crashed so horribly. So I've kind of weaned myself off. You keep getting second and third winds. But for me, I've stopped doing energy drinks or any kind of stimulant. I just kind of go natural.
‐‐ Nick Swardson
For me, horror movies are a real escape.
‐‐ Lena Headey
For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.
‐‐ Kate Burton
For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.
‐‐ Geddy Lee
For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.
‐‐ Herman Hesse
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard
For me, humor is everything!
‐‐ Judy Gold
For me, I actively look for projects that showcase people of color.
‐‐ David Oyelowo
For me, I actually come from an electronic dance music background: house music, electro house, trance music, even. When I was coming out of school, basically, I discovered Brain Fever, Flying Lotus, J Dilla and all that. That was when I got excited about hip-hop and when the Flume project started.
‐‐ Flume
For me, I always admire anyone that's entrepreneurs or inventors.
‐‐ Charles Michael Davis
For me, I always feel that I'm not sure what's going to happen next year or what's going to happen the year after or what's in the future. So I really kind of just focus on the project at hand and try to do the best that I can. And that, for me, is as much as I can control.
‐‐ Shahzia Sikander
For me, I always have looked at 'indie' as a term of 'independence.' Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant 'popular' to me; you know, it didn't define a sound.
‐‐ Solange Knowles
For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
‐‐ Patrick Wilson
For me, I always like to get up bright and early.
‐‐ Andre Rieu
For me, I always think about keeping my upper body relaxed, my hips level, and my right side down on the turn. If I work on nailing those three things at every practice, I hope that by the time I get into a race situation I can stay completely focused on the task at hand, and the rest will happen naturally.
‐‐ Brittany Bowe
For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.
‐‐ Lenny Abrahamson
For me, I always try to make it to the final.
‐‐ Yohan Blake
For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a really tough call.
‐‐ Hilarie Burton
For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.
‐‐ Diablo Cody
For me, I am a really tall woman, and I am really tall in heels, and I feel bigger, and I like being bigger. I think I was a king in a past life.
‐‐ Alysia Reiner
For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
‐‐ Abdullah II of Jordan