All Quotes

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.
‐‐ Emma Donoghue

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

I tend to be that swimmer that doesn't look like she is trying, but is actually dying on the inside. It's a little bit unfortunate because people are, like, 'Can you just try harder?' I was, like, 'If you can see what's going on in my head right now, you wouldn't be telling me that.'
‐‐ Cate Campbell

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
‐‐ Daniel Clowes

I tend to be... they say 'workaholic,' which I just find to be 'motivated.'
‐‐ Sarah Hay

I tend to be very private. It's easier for me. When you're acting, you're very susceptible to comments that somebody makes, so if they know something is going to happen on the show, and they say something, it can actually throw you off. So I tend to not share things with anybody.
‐‐ Tom Noonan

I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.
‐‐ Steven Weber

I tend to begin with what you might call the very small world of personal life. But I am certainly interested in how that small, intimate world connects or doesn't connect with a larger world.
‐‐ Graham Swift

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.
‐‐ Richard LaGravenese

I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.
‐‐ Mal Peet

I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

I tend to choose collaborators who are more courageous than I am. I think it's good for me.
‐‐ Kelly Sue DeConnick

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.
‐‐ Jane Haddam

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.
‐‐ Alaina Huffman

I tend to curve my back or pop my hip on the side. I always like to turn a little bit profile, and if you put one of your knees in, it also gives the illusion of more curves. There are a lot of tricks - you learn on the job sometimes.
‐‐ Sara Sampaio

I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
‐‐ G. Willow Wilson

I tend to deal with most issues with humor... always have and always will.
‐‐ Gordon Gee

I tend to describe recurring themes as being part of a writer's DNA - something so deeply embedded in us that even we don't notice it until we've written three or four books.
‐‐ Sara Zarr

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.
‐‐ Dougray Scott

I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.
‐‐ Brad Meltzer

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

I tend to do yoga before I go on stage, so that keeps me nice and calm.
‐‐ Neve McIntosh

I tend to dress a little more sophisticated than most women do.
‐‐ Nicole Richie

I tend to eat geographically. When I'm in L.A., I like to eat L.A. food.
‐‐ Lucy Punch

I tend to eat pretty healthy, though, and I work out - I work out hard.
‐‐ Amy Schumer

I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.
‐‐ Jimmy Wales

I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.
‐‐ Daley Thompson

I tend to eat what I want, which probably isn't good.
‐‐ Jewel

I tend to edit some as I go - partly because one of the reasons I don't outline much is that I don't know what the next scene will be until I've actually written the previous scene.
‐‐ Ann Leckie

I tend to end relationships, so she can find somebody better than me. Because I want to be fair to people. I cannot devote enough energy and time and devotion to her. I think that is fair, no?
‐‐ Nicolas Berggruen

I tend to enjoy proving people wrong.
‐‐ Hayley Williams

I tend to - every time I step onto the set until the time I go back to the hotel, I just try to be in character all the time.
‐‐ Rodrigo Santoro

I tend to explain my songs.
‐‐ Nneka

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

I tend to fall more into the fun horror genre than the traumatic horror genre. I love the films where you're laughing as much as screaming, but that doesn't mean I don't like the other ones.
‐‐ Drew Goddard

I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.
‐‐ Spike Lee

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time.
‐‐ Brandi Carlile

I tend to fight for something that I believe in.
‐‐ Christina Ricci

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.
‐‐ Trenton Lee Stewart

I tend to fly a bit under the radar.
‐‐ Paul Stanley

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.
‐‐ Maura Tierney

I tend to focus on young people and on giving a voice to groups of people who don't normally get their voices heard.
‐‐ Alexandra Robbins

I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
‐‐ Vikram Seth

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
‐‐ Garth Ennis

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.
‐‐ George Saunders