All Quotes

I gave up the idea of having a career when I was 24. Sounds glamorous, but I've been doing things since then, and part of those adventures was to make films because I realised I was actually quite good at it and I enjoyed it.
‐‐ Shekhar Kapur

I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.
‐‐ Leslie Fiedler

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
‐‐ A. A. Milne

I gave up writing for seven years (very biblical) and picked it up again, still clueless and still seeking the exotic, when I was twenty-one.
‐‐ David Bergen

I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
‐‐ Barbara Corcoran

I general don't color my stuff - I'm pretty horrible with color. Usually, I'll get one of my cartoonist friends to help me out.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
‐‐ Mae West

I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.
‐‐ Fred Wilson

I generally circuit train and do Pilates.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Chriqui

I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.
‐‐ Vinod Khosla

I generally do things I'm proud to be in and generally I'm in things people like.
‐‐ Bill Nighy

I generally don't climb something if it makes me feel fear. The beauty of soloing is that there's no pressure - no one's telling me to do it. So if something seems scary, I don't have any obligation to do it. I can prepare further or just walk away entirely.
‐‐ Alex Honnold

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario

I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the hamburgers or making the money back at corporate headquarters. But if people want to do that, they're free to do it.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.
‐‐ Heath Ledger

I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When I'm in the gym or running alone, there's always music. If I'm in the weights gym, I usually go for rap or rock music; for running, it's dance or cheesy pop.
‐‐ Laura Robson

I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will stop reading because it's just too much of a time commitment. But you never know with a movie what's going to turn around.
‐‐ David Dobkin

I generally edit quite heavily. In general, there aren't many scenes that are sitting where they sat in the script in the final form.
‐‐ Susanne Bier

I generally encourage people to make good on debts when they have enough money to repay them. But once a delinquency has been reported to a collection agency, paying it off won't help your FICO score. The damage has already been done, and the blemish will remain on your credit report for seven years.
‐‐ Suze Orman

I generally feel like people that are doing the wardrobe know more about wardrobe than I do, and they have an overview.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.
‐‐ Hugo Weaving

I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it's just a question of taste.
‐‐ Ellen Datlow

I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.
‐‐ Jack Canfield

I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
‐‐ Eli Roth

I generally get challenged; I haven't been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It's not something that every actor gets, really. It's luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren't afforded the opportunity to express their variety.
‐‐ James McAvoy

I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.
‐‐ Jean Nouvel

I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That's really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don't think it's appropriate for me to second guess.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.
‐‐ Emraan Hashmi

I generally like to be up front and honest and open because that's how I've always been. I have nothing to hide, and I think people relate to you more when you're just yourself.
‐‐ Ricki-Lee Coulter

I generally like very visually striking films. I love a lot of Stanley Kubrick's films. I would have to say 'Dr. Strangelove', which of course has got resonance in 'Watchmen'. It's a favorite movie of mine.
‐‐ Dave Gibbons

I generally like white skates.
‐‐ Sasha Cohen

I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
‐‐ Carla Gugino

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
‐‐ David Hockney

I generally play strong people and scary people.
‐‐ John Hawkes

I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.
‐‐ Kevin McKidd

I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment.
‐‐ Adam Schlesinger

I generally sell my records online or at the show. You can undersell the distributor and the stores, and people know what they're getting cause they've just seen you live.
‐‐ Roy Ayers

I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I'm doing.
‐‐ Imogen Poots

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.
‐‐ Nicolas Roeg

I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.
‐‐ Nelson DeMille

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
‐‐ Peter Straub

I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
‐‐ Natalie Coughlin

I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

I generally wear jeans and a T-shirt - very comfortable.
‐‐ Merritt Patterson

I generally will answer any question about anything.
‐‐ Danny Masterson

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
‐‐ Nora Roberts

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
‐‐ Daniel Craig