I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.
‐‐ Dana Schutz
I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose now-famous collection of 'Kinder- und Hausmarchen' ('Children's and Household Tales') was first published in 1812. The book was not intended for young readers.
‐‐ Kate Bernheimer
I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau
I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe
I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things.
‐‐ John Edgar Wideman
I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.
‐‐ Jean Rhys
I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.
‐‐ Jonathan Nolan
I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
‐‐ Dan Brown
I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
‐‐ Bliss Carman
I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience.
‐‐ Nick Tosches
I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.
‐‐ Artur Rodzinski
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
‐‐ Ferdinand Marcos
I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often wonder: If Buddha had all the elements that are given to a director - if he had music, if he had visuals, if he had a video camera - would we get Buddhism better?
‐‐ Shekhar Kapur
I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
‐‐ Nat King Cole
I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?
‐‐ Michael Beck
I often wonder, with my hand on my heart, if 'The Dying Hours' was made into the biggest movie franchise in history, would I pick up my pen again? Wouldn't I be happier spending the rest of my life travelling around with my wife?
‐‐ Mark Billingham
I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.
‐‐ Christina Baker Kline
I often work by avoidance.
‐‐ Brian Eno
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
‐‐ Zadie Smith
I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.
‐‐ Juliet Stevenson
I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it's a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself.
‐‐ Horton Foote
I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.
‐‐ Tracy Chapman
I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.
‐‐ Catherine Fisher
I often write songs, and when I do, I usually write quite a few of them. I really have to be in the mood.
‐‐ Ric Ocasek
I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with other guys to say.
‐‐ Justin Hayward
I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily break from the real book I'm writing. And then that becomes a real book too.
‐‐ Lauren Oliver
I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton
I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.
‐‐ Michael W. Smith
I once aged 90 years old in one episode.
‐‐ DeForest Kelley
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
‐‐ Laurence Sterne
I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull
I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.
‐‐ Henry Rollins
I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'
‐‐ Al Franken
I once ate McDonald's three times in one day.
‐‐ Christina Ricci
I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl
I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina
I once blurted out that I found it impossible to bond with my son Winston because I was too tired. I mean how bloody awful does that sound? What a tosser!
‐‐ Laurence Fox
I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it.
‐‐ Connie Chung
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
‐‐ Bernard Manning
I once called a guy into his own office and spun around in his own chair to greet him. That kind of thing may be why I quit, before I got into serious trouble. I would smile and the person would get so upset. But you do a thousand of those things, and it makes you weird.
‐‐ Al Madrigal
I once called construction companies to bid on an addition to the school library so that there would suddenly be people outside, measuring the building. 'Who authorized this?' the principal would ask. The answer: 'Howie Mandel.'
‐‐ Howie Mandel
I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.
‐‐ Steven Levitan
I once came back from a book tour where sleek black cars driven by nice men in black suits waited for me at every hotel, took me to every signing, brought me back, opened car doors for me. They were great. I was great. It was a wonderful tour.
‐‐ MaryJanice Davidson
I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.
‐‐ Stella Young
I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm.
‐‐ Jay London
I once dated someone who worked at McDonald's. She came up and asked if I wanted a Big Mac.
‐‐ John Stamos
I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.
‐‐ Artie Lange
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard
I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.
‐‐ Tom Wilkinson