All Quotes

I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.
‐‐ Lou Reed

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.
‐‐ Matthew Macfadyen

I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.
‐‐ Ezra Miller

I wouldn't want to play a character that knew everything and knew where to go. It is much more interesting playing a character that is vulnerable trying to be strong. It makes for better TV.
‐‐ Missy Peregrym

I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.
‐‐ Jeremy Irvine

I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.
‐‐ Robert Smith

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.
‐‐ Kazuo Ishiguro

I wouldn't want to tweet to anyone who would be interested in my tweets.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

I wouldn't wear really short dresses anymore - just don't feel comfortable in them.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

I wouldn't wear turtlenecks. That I'm not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no one says, 'Hey, didn't you wear that when you were playing an enormous geek on TV?'
‐‐ Simon Helberg

I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.
‐‐ Mike Rowe

I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
‐‐ Olivia De Havilland

I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.
‐‐ John Kluge

I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
‐‐ James Lee Burke

I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.
‐‐ John Niven

I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medical field. But I wound up taking a trip to Los Angeles and decided being an actor sounds pretty cool, too.
‐‐ Derek Theler

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.
‐‐ Trudi Canavan

I wound up through a wild set of circumstances getting into coaching. I went in and volunteered with Don Coryell, who was a big part of my past, great coach. A lot of people say he was one of the greatest coaches ever. He was very good in high school, college and pro. Another guy on that staff was named John Madden.
‐‐ Joe Gibbs

I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.
‐‐ Isabel Yosito

I wrapped 'Buffy' and I always felt on 'Buffy' that they wanted to keep me younger for a specific reason. It seemed like I was getting younger every year that I was on the show. I think there was a reference to me being 15, then 14.
‐‐ Michelle Trachtenberg

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
‐‐ Demetri Martin

I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday.
‐‐ Charisma Carpenter

I wrestled as a 90-pounder, and I wrestled in the 107-pound class in my first year. I had something inside of me. I could not stand not to compete. And I don't know why... I don't know what that's all about. But that's deep inside of Doug Harvey.
‐‐ Doug Harvey

I wrestled with my Catholicism for a long time. It took a long time to escape. It began with a sense that it was repressive, stern, judgmental. It was passionate, but it was terrifying. There were individual priests and nuns who were helpful, but the religion was cold.
‐‐ David Rabe

I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.
‐‐ Patrick Ness

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
‐‐ Nicholas Sparks

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait.
‐‐ Margaret Haddix

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.
‐‐ Ann Voskamp

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
‐‐ Macaulay Culkin

I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't write it down, then tomorrow I will forget it and it's gone.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain for me. And I try to write about things that are very close to me because I want people to feel the passion that I have for the subject.
‐‐ Charles M. Blow

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

I write a lot about myself.
‐‐ Elle King

I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'
‐‐ Dionne Bromfield

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
‐‐ Nick Cave

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.
‐‐ Edward P. Jones

I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.
‐‐ Andrew Bird

I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.
‐‐ Lindsay Lohan

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.
‐‐ Scott Patterson

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.
‐‐ Swae Lee

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.
‐‐ Bob Seger

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.
‐‐ Alexis Bledel

I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.
‐‐ Mike Stoller