All Quotes

I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simpsons' is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.
‐‐ Anderson Cooper

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
‐‐ Edward Norton

I tend to research as I write so that the narrative can take priority, which is important for a piece of fiction, I think, finding out facts as and when I need to.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
‐‐ J. M. Coetzee

I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.
‐‐ Sandrine Bonnaire

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.
‐‐ Danny Boyle

I tend to see - socially, I don't tend to be myself in a male role. I don't know any other way to put it.
‐‐ Greg Rucka

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.
‐‐ David Sedaris

I tend to shut myself off from people. It's gotten harder and harder for me to meet new people. It takes a lot of effort to open up to them and spend time with them.
‐‐ Julia Stiles

I tend to sleep a lot.
‐‐ Dean Winters

I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.
‐‐ Padma Lakshmi

I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.
‐‐ Kiesza

I tend to sort of over-accessorize, but to feel empowered, I strip it all down and become minimal so that it's almost counterintuitive.
‐‐ Karen Elson

I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.
‐‐ Brian Keene

I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.
‐‐ Rose Byrne

I tend to split my activities into fun, income and legacy. The number of things in that finance bucket is pretty few and far between and doesn't consume much time at all.
‐‐ Timothy Ferriss

I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You should really spend more money on the things you wear every day, like jeans.
‐‐ Alexa Chung

I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.
‐‐ Cecily von Ziegesar

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.
‐‐ Justin Cronin

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.
‐‐ Lorde

I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character, lines of dialogue, descriptive passages about a place. One idea fires another. I do that for about a year. By then there's a story, and I'll go on to a complete first draft that sews many of those ragtag pieces together.
‐‐ Scott Turow

I tend to stay away from the comics.
‐‐ Idris Elba

I tend to stay healthy because I've been eating right and exercising. It makes life so much easier when you're healthy. I also like to challenge myself by making my own physical goals and beating them.
‐‐ James Maslow

I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will find it surprising. I'm one of the worst 'corpses' on a movie set, which means you can't keep a straight face. You start to get the giggles and you can't stop.
‐‐ Christian Bale

I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers.
‐‐ Elisha Cuthbert

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.
‐‐ Jim Carrey

I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.
‐‐ Larry David

I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.
‐‐ Brandi Carlile

I tend to take negative comments to heart.
‐‐ Heston Blumenthal

I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I'm not good at saying 'No'. But the juggling's fun.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.
‐‐ Christina Hendricks

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.
‐‐ Bernard Sumner

I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me.
‐‐ Rick Riordan

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.
‐‐ Jules Shear

I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
‐‐ Garth Nix

I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.
‐‐ Alan Price

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
‐‐ Harold Pinter

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.
‐‐ Michel Houellebecq

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.
‐‐ Kurt Busiek

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.
‐‐ Fred Armisen

I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.
‐‐ Jo Brand

I tend to think year-by-year and tournament-by-tournament.
‐‐ Katie Taylor

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.
‐‐ Christian Bale

I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good.
‐‐ Jamie Campbell Bower

I tend to treat everyone like equals. That is my downfall, though, because Oprah is Oprah, and Barack is Barack, and you've gotta come in with a certain level of respect and admiration and love while still having that respect. Look at them - these people are, at this point, royalty. I think I get a little too chummy.
‐‐ Chrissy Teigen

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.
‐‐ Richard Curtis