All Quotes

I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.
‐‐ Campbell Scott

I tend to use really basic creams, and I like to put an oil on, like an emu oil from Australia. It's from the emu, and it's really nourishing. I prefer an oil to a cream.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.
‐‐ Eileen Myles

I tend to vote Republican, but I don't like the hardcore views on either side, and I'm not in bed with anybody.
‐‐ Kid Rock

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.
‐‐ Aleksandar Hemon

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.
‐‐ Bryan Batt

I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.
‐‐ O. J. Simpson

I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It's nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax.
‐‐ Kathy Reichs

I tend to watch the score board a lot.
‐‐ Jason Day

I tend to watch things that aren't really the genre of my own work.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
‐‐ Banks

I tend to wear leather pants with crew neck sweaters or leather jackets with denim.
‐‐ Nina Garcia

I tend to wear monochromatic outfits - all one colour from head to toe.
‐‐ Suzy Amis

I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. I've had my share of mood swings, believe me. But it's a powerful thing when you realize that you have dominion over your behavior and your passions.
‐‐ Matt Dillon

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.
‐‐ Bryan Cogman

I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.
‐‐ Charles Stross

I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.
‐‐ Pamela Sue Martin

I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.
‐‐ James Mercer

I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.
‐‐ Joanne Harris

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
‐‐ Rainbow Rowell

I tend to write about people on the edge who are pushing things out from the edge but who are not necessarily big-ticket items.
‐‐ Lawrence Weschler

I tend to write about towns because that's what I remember best. You can put a boundary on the number of characters you insert into a small town. I tend to create a lot of characters, so this is a sort of restraint on the character building I do for a novel.
‐‐ Tom Drury

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.
‐‐ Tom Odell

I tend to write at the piano, but usually the melody and lyrics come first. Like, I'll be in the shower, and I'll start singing, and the melody and the lyric will just come out. Then I'll quickly try to finish the shower, try to remember it, record it on my phone and save it for the studio.
‐‐ Eliza Doolittle

I tend to write better when I'm not touring.
‐‐ Keith Urban

I tend to write during the day so I can see my children at night. But if my kids aren't with me and I have a chunk of time when I'm a single woman living in my house for a miraculous week, I will get to write at different hours.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone

I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.
‐‐ Donald Miller

I tend to write in coffee shops and restaurants with friends of mine because if I'm at home, I get distracted by the television or the cats or my husband, or... you know - all of those things that make it easy to procrastinate.
‐‐ Cassandra Clare

I tend to write in the mornings.
‐‐ Scott Turow

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.
‐‐ James Horner

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have a chance to take all the ideas that are buried inside of my novels and work with them directly.
‐‐ Dinaw Mengestu

I tend to write more when I travel.
‐‐ Jaime Winstone

I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.
‐‐ Tom Petty

I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
‐‐ James Taylor

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
‐‐ K. A. Applegate

I tend to write some, then outline some, then delete some, then go back and rewrite some. I love revising and hate first drafts. I have to wear bedroom slippers. My current favorites come from the Zetter Hotel in London. They have little tobacco pipes on the toes.
‐‐ Lauren Kate

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.
‐‐ Ty Segall

I tend to write songs that are about something pretty specific. A lot of them tell some kind of little made-up story.
‐‐ Adam Schlesinger

I tend to write the episodes in the middle of the season, which can be a challenge because you've got to balance all these threads that have begun - and also make sure they will make sense with the overall plan going forward.
‐‐ Bryan Cogman

I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.
‐‐ Robert Hunter

I tend to write three to four hours a day, depending - oftentimes very late at night. When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, 'Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious.'
‐‐ Roxane Gay

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.
‐‐ Ron Eldard

I tend toward the unnatural, sometimes with supernatural undertones or such.
‐‐ Marge Simon

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
‐‐ David Antin

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.
‐‐ Michael Crichton

I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner... And at the other end of the spectrum, I had Eric Clapton in a rock and blues sense, jazz guys such as Tal Farlow and Les Paul... Then Chet Atkins-type stuff.
‐‐ Brad Paisley