All Quotes

For 'Motive,' it wasn't a question of making it look un-Canadian, but instead, we wanted it to be the product of a bunch of really skilled people making something. And that's what you have.
‐‐ Kristin Lehman

For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the movie is going on and try to get into what my character's going to be like, to try to get some consistency, because they shoot movies out of order.
‐‐ Loretta Devine

For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.
‐‐ Kristen Wiig

For Mr. Elway to take me in the second round and show that trust that he has in me and the upside he thinks I have, I want to go out and there and prove him right. I want to be able to have him look back 10 years from now, 15 years from now, and have him be very proud about that selection and let him know that he did make the right selection.
‐‐ Brock Osweiler

For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance.
‐‐ Kenneth R. Miller

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

For much of my life - my sister and I have talked about this - when we moved, we just thought the world behind us disappeared, and all of the people, they just didn't exist any more.
‐‐ Marilyn Nelson

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
‐‐ Benoit Mandelbrot

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

For much of the latter part of the 20th century, Australia seemed to be opening up to something large and good. It believed itself a generous country, the land of the 'fair go.'
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid painlessly into the past, like any other year. Big Brother arrived and settled in, though not at all in the way George Orwell had imagined.
‐‐ James Gleick

For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of time to really concentrate on improving it.
‐‐ Andy Murray

For much of their history, life for most people in China was arduous and circumscribed - and people travelled as little as they could.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.
‐‐ Charles Vest

For much of Toyota's history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line - and empowering any team member to halt production if there's an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again.
‐‐ Akio Toyoda

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song.
‐‐ Hilary Rosen

For Muslims, as a homosexual, I am less than a pig.
‐‐ Pim Fortuyn

For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.
‐‐ Kaui Hart Hemmings

For my 16th birthday, my family took me to L'Auberge de L'Ill, which was family-run but had three Michelin stars. It was a revelation. After that meal, I realised this is what I want to do.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton's 'Tears In Heaven,' then I could play the guitar. I practised every chance I got, driving my housemates insane, until several weeks later I had a shaky version of the song down. I wrote my first song on the guitar a few weeks after that.
‐‐ Neil Jackson

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.
‐‐ Gene Siskel

For my band's debut tour in 2011, we road-tripped across the country in a 15-passenger van. It was the first time I'd left Alabama. I drove through scenery I'd only ever seen in calendars: auburn leaves falling in Vermont, the sun setting over purple mountains in Arizona. It was incredible.
‐‐ Brittany Howard

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
‐‐ Steven Wright

For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.
‐‐ Cheryl Hines

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!
‐‐ Connie Britton

For my book, 'Age of Ambition,' I spent time documenting, among other things, the trials of young Chinese strivers who are bombarded by pressures unlike those that their parents faced.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote 'Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.' It's more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.
‐‐ David A. Adler

For my brother and me, there would be no 'Field of Dreams'-like playing catch, no nature lessons with our old man. Instead, it would be a darkened theater, the projector light coming on, and a new adventure unfolding.
‐‐ Bob Weinstein

For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run.
‐‐ John Sununu

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.
‐‐ Nolan Ryan

For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue.
‐‐ Solomon Ortiz

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
‐‐ Nana Mouskouri

For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.
‐‐ Jeffrey Zeldman

For my diet, I choose mostly organic. But in general, I am a big believer in trying to strike a balance with everything.
‐‐ Liya Kebede

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.
‐‐ Marcus Terentius Varro

For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need.
‐‐ Chris Toumazou

For my everyday look, I don't like going anywhere without eye makeup.
‐‐ Becky G

For my eyes, my day-to-day just involves curling my lashes to open up my eyes and applying our mascara, The Quickie. If I'm getting my makeup done, I like to get individual lash extensions or a strip of false lashes, depending on how glam I want to get.
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
‐‐ David Copperfield

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
‐‐ Madhur Bhandarkar

For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
‐‐ Len Cariou

For my first album I wanted to make a record that would be intimate, deeply personal, and honest.
‐‐ James McCartney

For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself.
‐‐ Michael Graves

For my first fragrance, I wanted to capture the essence of a woman's strength and beauty.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
‐‐ Tina Fey

For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some N.Y.C. - so from one perspective you could say that the place in my work always comes first.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers.
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd