All Quotes

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.
‐‐ Tim Berners-Lee

I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender.
‐‐ Susan Vreeland

I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
‐‐ Ian McDiarmid

I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain circumstances with particular physical traits, unique developmental experiences, geographical and historical contexts.
‐‐ Sarah Jones

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.
‐‐ John Banville

I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intelligent career. I used to put myself down for doing it.
‐‐ Daria Werbowy

I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. 'M.A.S.H.' comes to mind. So does 'The Iliad.'
‐‐ Kevin Bleyer

I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You have to decide what your priorities are. Great actor, huge star. Sometimes, the two walk hand in hand. Most of the time, they don't.
‐‐ Anne-Marie Duff

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.
‐‐ Janet Suzman

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.
‐‐ Nicholas Sparks

I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.
‐‐ Peter Temple

I suppose movie theaters are the churches of the modern age, where we gather reverently to worship the tinsel gods of Hollywood.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am.
‐‐ John Wayne

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.
‐‐ Andy Partridge

I suppose 'My Hollywood' is only as politically meaningful as it is deeply inside the least powerful of its characters. I wanted it to reveal scenes of subtle exploitation, odd instances of accidental power and challenges to decency specific to its time, but also impulses of generosity that transcend our particular era's messes.
‐‐ Mona Simpson

I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.
‐‐ Said Sayrafiezadeh

I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.
‐‐ Emilia Fox

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.
‐‐ Graham Coxon

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.
‐‐ Shane Warne

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.
‐‐ Mary Hunter Austin

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
‐‐ James Boswell

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.
‐‐ Ed Miliband

I suppose on the filmmaking side, you can learn how to cram a lot into a small space. But I think that advertising, even on what is called the creative side, is incredibly easy if you have that kind of mind. A lot of people regard it as Machiavellian and dangerous, but, in fact, it is morally neutral.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
‐‐ Alice James

I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human.
‐‐ Hattie Morahan

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.
‐‐ Colm Toibin

I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
‐‐ Edmund White

I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.
‐‐ Chang-Rae Lee

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.
‐‐ George McGovern

I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.
‐‐ Neil Innes

I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.
‐‐ John Updike

I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
‐‐ Calvin Harris

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.
‐‐ Jonny Greenwood

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.
‐‐ Cat Stevens

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
‐‐ A. A. Milne

I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.
‐‐ John Hench

I suppose that few people ever forget the first sight of a palm-tree of any species. I vividly remember seeing one for the first time at Malaga, but the coco-palm groves of the Pacific have a strangeness and witchery of their own.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

I suppose that, for most of us, the fascination of conjoined twins is that such people can serve as symbols.
‐‐ Darin Strauss

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.
‐‐ Garth Ennis

I suppose that I am ambitious.
‐‐ Antonio Banderas

I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable.
‐‐ Michael Eric Dyson

I suppose that I'm fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.
‐‐ Nick Rhodes

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.
‐‐ John Hench

I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.
‐‐ Judy Holliday

I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.
‐‐ Ricky Jay

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote 'In Contempt' was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.
‐‐ Christopher Darden