All Quotes

I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
‐‐ Sam Shepard

I'm a great believer in eccentrically-shaped modern families. Because I've seen them work so well. And as long as everyone loves each other, it can work very well.
‐‐ Hugh Grant

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.
‐‐ Randolph Scott

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
‐‐ Scarlett Thomas

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
‐‐ Abraham Verghese

I'm a great believer in governments doing as little as possible and people power doing the rest, so I'm in favour of governments being there to govern in the areas that need governing, not a whole heap of other things that they stick their sticky fingers into.
‐‐ Gerry Harvey

I'm a great believer in karma, and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

I'm a great believer in not over-thinking lyrics. You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs great.
‐‐ Paul Stanley

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

I'm a great believer in our ability to come up with the ideas necessary to solve the big questions. I have less confidence that we'll be able to find a consensus about which ones are right without experiment.
‐‐ Leonard Susskind

I'm a great believer in outlines.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.
‐‐ Alfred Bester

I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.
‐‐ Billy Collins

I'm a great believer in possibilities.
‐‐ Ann Maxwell

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.
‐‐ Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.
‐‐ John Cassavetes

I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.
‐‐ Javier Bardem

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.
‐‐ Mark Gatiss

I'm a great believer in the character of a club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.
‐‐ Tony La Russa

I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also.
‐‐ Harold H. Greene

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.
‐‐ Andrew Marr

I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
‐‐ Kate Grenville

I'm a great believer in the idea of not choosing based on our taste.
‐‐ Sheena Iyengar

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
‐‐ Bill Gates

I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.
‐‐ Leonard Susskind

I'm a great believer that the Lord provides us specific experiences to prepare us to deal with some of the challenges that we're going to encounter in our own period of service.
‐‐ Thomas S. Monson

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
‐‐ Barbara Bush

I'm a great believer that you had to do everything you've done to have got to where you are.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.
‐‐ Matthew Morrison

I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
‐‐ Daniel Espinosa

I'm a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn't be cut, because I had no experience other than what was at school, I'm from a working-class town, there were no theaters, and the cinema closed when I was a kid. Anything that gave me a voice or a way to express myself I went running headlong toward.
‐‐ Ben Daniels

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.
‐‐ Bill Budge

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.
‐‐ Clive Barker

I'm a great fan of Bloomingdale's, and I'm a very loyal alumni of Parsons. I think what they do, what they've done, is amazing. They've educated some of the best American designers.
‐‐ Narciso Rodriguez

I'm a great fan of Carey Lowell's and I loved Jill Hennessey.
‐‐ Elisabeth Rohm

I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.
‐‐ Sophie Kinsella

I'm a great fan of Woody Allen's movies.
‐‐ Arnaud Desplechin

I'm a great jazz fan.
‐‐ Vidal Sassoon

I'm a great lighter and lover of candles, particularly fragranced ones, as I'm kind of addicted to scent.
‐‐ Deirdre O'Kane

I'm a great lover, I'll bet.
‐‐ Emo Philips

I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.
‐‐ Elton John

I'm a great mother because of my intentions on being a great mother; I'm a good friend because I'm loyal; I'm a good daughter because I've hopefully made my mother proud; I'm a great human being because I accept that there's a spiritual being underneath it all. I've always been a woman of faith.
‐‐ Lauren London

I'm a great mummy. I've mapped out all the fun spots in every city.
‐‐ Sarah McLachlan

I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the characters are. I usually spend a year on the outline.
‐‐ Ken Follett

I'm a great reviser. I do these reckless drafts just to get the lay of the land.
‐‐ Thomas McGuane

I'm a great singer.
‐‐ Mauricio Macri

I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman