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I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.
‐‐ Edmund White

I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
‐‐ Dan Webster

I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
‐‐ Ed Koch

I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.
‐‐ Andrea Hirata

I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.
‐‐ Gilbert Gottfried

I changed the lyrics of 'All I Need Is the Girl' to 'All I Need Is the Job' for an audition years ago. It's a great ice-breaker - people want to laugh.
‐‐ Bryan Batt

I channel surf like probably most people.
‐‐ Ed O'Neill

I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.
‐‐ Tananarive Due

I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

I chase after inspiring stories.
‐‐ Vera Farmiga

I cheat every now and then, but the foundation of my eating habits is organic. I don't like to eat a lot of processed foods. So it's fresh vegetables, fresh herbs and meat without all of the antibiotics and preservatives.
‐‐ Tia Mowry

I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.
‐‐ Romola Garai

I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.
‐‐ Barbara Windsor

I check my phone first thing when I wake up in the morning. I usually take it up with me to bed so it's on the floor next to the bed, although not actually in bed with me, because I really do not want to be the person who sleeps with their phone.
‐‐ Jami Attenberg

I check Style.com to look at the collections and love to poke around some of the other fashion blogs to see what's going on.
‐‐ Ashley Olsen

I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.
‐‐ Gavin MacLeod

I checked on the Internet this morning, and I realized that with five individual world titles, I was level with my elders Florian Rousseau and Arnaud Tournant, who were the sprint leaders in France when I started at the French Institute of Sports and taught me everything. I had the chance to overtake them, and I did it.
‐‐ Francois Pervis

I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.
‐‐ David Strathairn

I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, 'What can we know about her education?' It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.
‐‐ Stacy Schiff

I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.
‐‐ Ginnifer Goodwin

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.
‐‐ Jeff Beck

I cherish my work and all of my readers.
‐‐ Kris Carr

I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
‐‐ Patricia McBride

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'
‐‐ Frances O'Grady

I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, we'd talk on the phone, and if I wasn't doing anything, I'd fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people.
‐‐ Frankie Valli

I cherished my time playing high school sports.
‐‐ Peyton Manning

I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.
‐‐ Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.
‐‐ Billy Gardell

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
‐‐ Auguste Rodin

I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.
‐‐ Bill Richardson

I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory!
‐‐ Colleen Atwood

I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.
‐‐ Brad Renfro

I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.
‐‐ Kathryn Bigelow

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.
‐‐ Elle Macpherson

I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important.
‐‐ Sean Penn

I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities - and, most of all, I share humor with them. Then I keep my eyes open when they rehearse and perform, because you never know where the next stimulation comes from.
‐‐ George Cukor

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

I choose my outfits based on the shows on a particular day. If there's an edgier designer, it might be a slightly edgier outfit. I don't think it matters, but still that's how I think about it.
‐‐ Aslaug Magnusdottir

I choose my roles carefully.
‐‐ Catherine Deneuve

I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
‐‐ Najib Mikati

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.
‐‐ Franka Potente

I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

I choose not to believe in superstitions. On race day, I have plans that I follow. I don't necessarily think about brushing my hair a certain way or doing certain things that make no sense as it relates to my performance.
‐‐ Mark de Jonge

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.
‐‐ Rosanne Cash

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.
‐‐ Lorna Luft

I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
‐‐ Octavia Spencer

I choose questions to work on according to how much they excite me.
‐‐ Eric Maskin

I choose roles that are not me.
‐‐ January Jones