All Quotes

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe

I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.
‐‐ Jayne Anne Phillips

I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won't be intimidated.
‐‐ Lowell Bergman

I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling.
‐‐ Joe Meno

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.
‐‐ George Wald

I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?
‐‐ George Wald

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.
‐‐ Dorothy Allison

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'
‐‐ Juan Felipe Herrera

I tell my writing students that everything is material; just pay attention.
‐‐ Tony Earley

I tell myself every day I love my Jacuzzi, I love my marble floors, I love my high ceilings.
‐‐ DJ Khaled

I tell myself every offseason I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm just going to have a peaceful season... Can't do it. I'm cut from a different cloth.
‐‐ Gary Sheffield

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.
‐‐ Jo Nesbo

I tell myself, 'If I can wake up each day and be excited about what I'm doing, then I must be happy.' But then again, maybe I'm in denial.
‐‐ Alexandra Cassavetes

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.
‐‐ Bryce Courtenay

I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants buttoned. One more pregnancy and I'd be doomed to elastic waists for the rest of my life.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
‐‐ Rose Kennedy

I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost customers because few could spell its name to look up the address. I tell myself that lots of writers agonize over titles, and often get them wrong at first.
‐‐ Caroline Leavitt

I tell myself time heals. It really does.
‐‐ Rodney King

I tell people a lot of times, if you want to be a part of something, you never know, you kind of just have to be around. A lot of people don't really have the patience for it, and they don't stick around. Dre and I are still working together, and we have plenty of music for the future.
‐‐ Anderson Paak

I tell people all of the time that they would make any show in this business - whether it's black, white, Hispanic, Jewish, Colombian, Dominican - whatever. They'll make it if it sells. It's a business. It's not personal.
‐‐ Kirk Acevedo

I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at 'SNL,' I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you're going to end up at.
‐‐ J. B. Smoove

I tell people all the time, 'As long as my kids are doing good, I'm gonna be alright.'
‐‐ Marvin Sapp

I tell people all the time, 'Don't be fooled, because I am a man by day.'
‐‐ Kellyanne Conway

I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
‐‐ Sam Childers

I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do including creating music, a new song.
‐‐ Andra Day

I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

I tell people all the time that producers, writers, and directors really don't know what they want until it walks into the room - you have to show them what they want. Everyone is rooting for you when you walk into the room. Everyone wants you to be good because it means their day is over!
‐‐ Eric Stonestreet

I tell people all the time that without the fans, I've got nothing.
‐‐ Curt Schilling

I tell people 'America's Got Talent' is the best summer job you could have - you get to watch people strive for their dreams all summer long. So when you see me rooting for these people or dancing on the side of the stage, that's what I'd be doing if I was watching this show at home!
‐‐ Nick Cannon

I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

I tell people Baltimore is lucky to be rid of the Colts, they're so lousy, but I don't mean it.
‐‐ Art Donovan

I tell people: 'Do what you love, but it can also be hard to know what you love early on. But when you think about it and you describe the options, which one gets you a little more excited?'
‐‐ Brad D. Smith

I tell people, Don't take my advice. What do I know?
‐‐ Nick Lachey

I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.'
‐‐ Kris Carr

I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody's husband, I'm somebody's father. I'm a man. I take great pride in that.
‐‐ Steve Harvey

I tell people, 'I'm American. I act.'
‐‐ Roma Maffia

I tell people I'm on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they'll think I'm off my diet. It's like secret little police that I've made for myself.
‐‐ Stephen Furst

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
‐‐ Debi Thomas

I tell people I never got to hear Dylan Thomas read because my husband wouldn't let me, because he thought it would be a sort of bad influence. People say, 'And you didn't go?' They're so surprised because the me they know would have gone. And I say I was very much a 'yes, dear' wife.
‐‐ Carolyn Kizer

I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.
‐‐ Rand Paul

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.
‐‐ Fred Seibert

I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get.
‐‐ Daniel Baldwin

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.'
‐‐ Dick Gregory

I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
‐‐ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I tell people in their careers, 'Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.'
‐‐ Sheryl Sandberg

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'
‐‐ Michael Clarke Duncan

I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
‐‐ Candice Olson