All Quotes

I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and spend more energy. I feel lucky that I was born with this passion.
‐‐ Carolina Kostner

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
‐‐ Kathryn Harrison

I can't work with my brother without laughing.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

I can't work with people who aren't fun loving. I don't encourage such people.
‐‐ Ravi Teja

I can't work without music.
‐‐ Damian Loeb

I can't work without my family being with me.
‐‐ Bethenny Frankel

I can't worry about the consequences of what I do; that's not my job.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just their opinions, but if I said I don't hear it, or it doesn't bother me a little bit, I'd be lying to you.
‐‐ Carmelo Anthony

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.
‐‐ Mireille Enos

I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.
‐‐ Christopher Moore

I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.
‐‐ Ron Shock

I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates.
‐‐ Stacy Schiff

I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very important to the granularity of my writing. I have to know what the reality is so I can be more convincing in the writing.
‐‐ Lorraine Adams

I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.
‐‐ Eric Van Lustbader

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.
‐‐ Arabella Weir

I can't write about people I don't feel some sort of connection to.
‐‐ Liz Goldwyn

I can't write about rich people having relationship problems and breaking up in New York. I don't know that world of Terrence McNally. I knew I had to write people who talk the way I talk. And they talked very different than Terrence McNally.
‐‐ Lucy Alibar

I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.
‐‐ Shelby Lynne

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
‐‐ Adele

I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for.
‐‐ Charles Saatchi

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.
‐‐ Richard Attenborough

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
‐‐ Patricia Highsmith

I can't write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next. I pretty much have a basic style I employ.
‐‐ Harvey Pekar

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.
‐‐ Eric Whitacre

I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.
‐‐ Michael Irvin

I can't write songs unless I am in love.
‐‐ Kevin Ayers

I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!
‐‐ Jane Gardam

I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don't know that about me.
‐‐ Dannel Malloy

I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.
‐‐ Mark Carwardine

I can't write what I don't believe in.
‐‐ Dorothy Allison

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
‐‐ John Cheever

I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.
‐‐ Norman Rockwell

I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

I can take a newspaper and make it a lethal weapon.
‐‐ Sarah Shahi

I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.
‐‐ Ashley Tisdale

I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.
‐‐ Bow Wow

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
‐‐ Donald Byrd

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.'
‐‐ Beth Ditto

I can take criticisms but not compliments.
‐‐ James Taylor

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.
‐‐ Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

I can take just about anyone and make them physically strong.
‐‐ Howard E. Wasdin

I can take more pain than anyone.
‐‐ Breaux Greer

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.
‐‐ Ric Flair

I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
‐‐ Shakira

I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.
‐‐ Imelda May

I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do.
‐‐ Charlie Kaufman