All Quotes

In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.
‐‐ Ken Follett

In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.
‐‐ John Banville

In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world.
‐‐ Matt Mullenweg

In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.
‐‐ David Bergen

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

In my bullpen sessions, I'm just trying to feel comfortable, throw strikes, and not get too complicated.
‐‐ Drew Pomeranz

In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.
‐‐ Mehmet Oz

In my business, if you look good, no one is going to be checking up on whether you work out. So it's up to me.
‐‐ Josie Maran

In my business - SAT tutoring - you get used to sighs. A client's mother frets over the sheer amount of work her daughter has to do to get her score up, until she reaches the resigned moment when she will sigh and observe that no one thought you could prepare for the SAT back when she took it - it was 'untutorable.'
‐‐ Eliot Schrefer

In my career as a director, there's always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: 'What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?' At that time you have to say: 'OK, forget that and just go ahead.'
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

In my career as an actress, I have never got involved with anybody from the world of films. I have always kept my professional and personal life separate, as that's my policy.
‐‐ Preity Zinta

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.
‐‐ Carole King

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.
‐‐ Emraan Hashmi

In my career, I'm very grateful for the opportunities.
‐‐ Katherine Heigl

In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it's like learning another language.
‐‐ Ron Jaworski

In my career, I really set out not to develop too strong a persona so that you wouldn't have a hard time imagining me in any given role. I wanted to pleasantly confuse the audience on who I was.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

In my career, I thought I've never wanted to get anywhere in particular. I just wanted to work with interesting people on interesting projects.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.
‐‐ Lynn Collins

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.
‐‐ John Landis

In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.
‐‐ John Lee Hooker

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
‐‐ Ferdinand Piech

In my career the push has always been to take another step, to try something new.
‐‐ Bjorn Ulvaeus

In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
‐‐ Gabrielle Union

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
‐‐ Bernadette Peters

In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family. It's about being a good father, a good husband, just being connected to family as much as possible.
‐‐ David Beckham

In my career, which has been fairly two-dimensional, people make decisions based on your persona.
‐‐ Erin O'Connor

In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.
‐‐ Clyde Edgerton

In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a month for a coupla hours. It's become my lifeline - forgive the pun.
‐‐ Nigel Hamilton

In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible... When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I've done it.
‐‐ Novak Djokovic

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybody who abuses power. And that seems to make me rather persistent when it comes to exposing the abuse of power.
‐‐ Nick Davies

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.
‐‐ Donna Rice

In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck.
‐‐ Virgil Goode

In my case, I played sports my whole life. I got out of college, and I didn't bother to get health care coverage because I just figured I didn't need it. But you know that if you blow out your knee on a basketball court or you get in a car accident, and you're uninsured, it can bankrupt you.
‐‐ Denis McDonough

In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician.
‐‐ Rick Scott

In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.
‐‐ Sol LeWitt

In my case, I've always been interested in law enforcement. I've always dabbled in law enforcement in between gigs, quite honestly. Back before things really began to pop off for me, I would work in private security for companies and stuff.
‐‐ Corey Reynolds

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.
‐‐ Gillian Anderson

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.
‐‐ Jim Lehrer

In my case, I was placing extreme pressure on my lower spine from rotating my hips too much. This is a common cause of bad backs - and bad shots - for golfers of all levels. In addition to resting, I worked with my trainer, Joey Diovisalvi, on strengthening the weaker lower-body muscles that contributed to my overactive hips and back pain.
‐‐ Rickie Fowler

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
‐‐ Patrick O'Brian

In my case, my size is so small that if I want it but don't buy it, I might miss the opportunity.
‐‐ Marie Kondo

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
‐‐ Carl Jung

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.
‐‐ Jay Dratler

In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.
‐‐ Pat Summitt

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

In my case, the business chose me.
‐‐ Ronald Meyer