All Quotes

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
‐‐ Melanie Lynskey

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.
‐‐ Shawn Mendes

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.
‐‐ Stephen Colbert

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.
‐‐ Todd Barry

I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn't have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape.
‐‐ Chelsea Cain

I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.
‐‐ Donald Miller

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

I used Vamps as a casting couch! I pretty much did, because I was casting 'L!fe Happens' while I was on the set of Vamps, and anybody I had ever worked with, I asked to be in this movie.
‐‐ Krysten Ritter

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.
‐‐ Jeffrey Brown

I usually balance school by doing online classes and regular classes - that has helped me a lot, and I'm able to get my schoolwork done while I'm traveling too.
‐‐ Jordyn Wieber

I usually bring along a bottle of kombucha, thinking, 'This will be really good for me.' But I never actually drink it. The fermented mushroom-y flavor is too intense for me.
‐‐ Lena Headey

I usually build my collections on colors and on staples, so when you buy pieces, you are really adding to your wardrobe, and you're getting a new color palette to play with. The clothes are timeless and modern at the same time.
‐‐ L'Wren Scott

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
‐‐ Alan Cumming

I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk, drama you will see.
‐‐ Danny McBride

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
‐‐ Michael Caine

I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.
‐‐ Alva Noto

I usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling Strings' had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It's very well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script.
‐‐ Jaime Camil

I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
‐‐ Cameron Russell

I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.
‐‐ Elon Musk

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.
‐‐ John Fogerty

I usually dislike second books in series. The only second installment I ever loved was 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and I think that was wonderful because it evolved the characters while not seeming like a bridge.
‐‐ Pierce Brown

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.
‐‐ Ron Rash

I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.
‐‐ Mary-Kate Olsen

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
‐‐ Jacki Weaver

I usually do my hair and makeup in 30 to 45 minutes, and if my hair is dirty, I'll just put it in a bun or a ponytail. If it's in a bun, I'll part it down the middle and do a low bun with a couple pieces in the front coming down.
‐‐ Gigi Hadid

I usually do my writing in a very nice room, my studio, which is in the attic of our house in Wisconsin. But the nice thing about writing is that I can do it in many places. So sometimes I'll write in coffee shops.
‐‐ Kevin Henkes

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
‐‐ Alan Dean Foster

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.
‐‐ Doug Hutchison

I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.
‐‐ Amy Bloom

I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.
‐‐ The Weeknd

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.
‐‐ Mary Lou Retton

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.
‐‐ Helen Hunt

I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.
‐‐ Paolo Sorrentino

I usually don't throw around the word 'fabulous,' but how else to describe buildings decorated with mirrored water dragons, serpents tiled in colored glass, and hundreds - no, thousands, no, tens of thousands - of gold-leaf Buddhas? Luang Prabang has more than 47,000 residents, but its Buddha population must be ten times that.
‐‐ David Ebershoff

I usually don't wear makeup, and if I do, it's later in the day if I have to get my act together for work for some reason.
‐‐ Jennifer Garner

I usually don't write at night, but there are times where I wake up at 3 in the morning and write all night.
‐‐ John Searles

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.
‐‐ Diane Warren

I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.
‐‐ Padma Lakshmi

I usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in the middle of the night because that's when my mind is the quietest. I always have my tape recorder, pen and pad by my bed just in case.
‐‐ Leona Lewis

I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'
‐‐ Natalie Portman

I usually eat a pretty big steak the night before I compete.
‐‐ Shaun White

I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a very large plate of beef in red wine sauce.
‐‐ Ian McKeever

I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I'll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I'll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish.
‐‐ Sprague Grayden

I usually end up falling for one of my really good guy friends because I know everything about them, and you fall in love with their personalities, and it makes them become attractive to you in your eyes.
‐‐ Colbie Caillat

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.
‐‐ Sondre Lerche

I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.
‐‐ Sarah Paulson

I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.
‐‐ Rami Malek