All Quotes

For me, when I 'discover' a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance.
‐‐ David Bergen

For me, when I go in to write a profile, and no ground rules are laid down, and I'm there to write an on-the-record profile and cover readings while in the room, then that means it's on the record.
‐‐ Michael Hastings

For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.
‐‐ Lucy Davis

For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.
‐‐ Randy Owen

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.
‐‐ Hayden Christensen

For me, when I'm not working, the day goes by so fast. I never have enough time - getting a manicure, getting a pedicure, getting my workout in, making sure that I ate healthy. Those things can become treacherous to the mind.
‐‐ Jill Soloway

For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
‐‐ Sampha

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

For me, when I read a book, I'm very much about detail.
‐‐ Emma Roberts

For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
‐‐ Patrick Ness

For me, when I was a kid, volunteering was the last thing I was thinking about. When I see kids doing it now, it amazes me. It's very impressive, it gives them something productive to do as opposed to getting in trouble. For them to take time out at such a young age is remarkable. I think all kids should take a little time out to volunteer.
‐‐ Derek Jeter

For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that.
‐‐ James Spader

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.
‐‐ Stephen Curry

For me, when you are talking about perfect songs, you're talking about Gershwin, 'Someone To Watch Over Me.' Or Larry Hart and Richard Rodgers. Or some of the great Cole Porter songs, whether it's 'Night and Day' or some of the comedy songs. Or Irving Berlin, of course.
‐‐ Maury Yeston

For me, when you put a MakerBot in a school, you add a manufacturing education to the environment where I think we can really empower the next generation to compete in the global economy.
‐‐ Bre Pettis

For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
‐‐ Zoe Kravitz

For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to open a cookbook and see a recipe that goes on for three to four pages, well, I've lost interest.
‐‐ Al Roker

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

For me, wigs and hairpieces are an everyday part of my life. One day I can wear what I like to call my 'Back to you, Barbara' look - professional and full of layers - and the next day you may see me in my 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar' look - curly, fun and bubbly.
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd

For me, Wimbledon is such a special tournament. I feel at home when I play there, and the grass is perfect.
‐‐ Heather Watson

For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.
‐‐ Emmitt Smith

For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.
‐‐ Ryan Coogler

For me, with the Blue Man Group, I got asked. It was for the Royal Variety Show, which was something I always wanted to be a part of. I'm really interested in things people don't necessarily expect. I did a pop song, but I did it in my own style.
‐‐ Katherine Jenkins

For me, words are just words, nothing else.
‐‐ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

For me, work is one thing, and my life is another.
‐‐ Chris Pine

For me, working is the ultimate vacation, for lack of a better word. Its being in-between jobs were it becomes emotional, and brutal, and draining.
‐‐ Ashley Bell

For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.
‐‐ John Lithgow

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
‐‐ Al Goldstein

For me, working out is a form of therapy. It's cathartic for me; it's a good stress reliever. I know that when I go to the gym I am taking care of myself, and I know I'll feel so much better afterwards.
‐‐ Bob Harper

For me, working out is nothing to do with looks. It's to let it all out - the stress, the self-consciousness - you think less; it makes you more centred.
‐‐ Eva Green

For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know it's a problem when my husband sends the dog in to retrieve me.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
‐‐ Lynn Abbey

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
‐‐ Halsey

For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.
‐‐ Aleksa Palladino

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
‐‐ Alfred Nobel

For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned to and engaged with the society in which I live. Both my writing and my drawing are invariably mixed up with politics, whether I want them to be or not.
‐‐ Gunter Grass

For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.
‐‐ Rick Riordan

For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.
‐‐ Sara Shepard

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
‐‐ Alice Walker

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
‐‐ Don DeLillo

For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me.
‐‐ Jose Saramago

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk