All Quotes

Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
‐‐ Ida Lupino

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

Often I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement, but was actually cruel. But then we're all capable of - of things that are breathtakingly cruel.
‐‐ Liane Moriarty

Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.
‐‐ Chris Ofili

Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.
‐‐ Mona Simpson

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.
‐‐ Steve Tisch

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.
‐‐ Christopher Hampton

Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.
‐‐ Phyllis George

Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.
‐‐ Jim Hodges

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.
‐‐ Mia Wasikowska

Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's because I don't have clarity. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence - I want to do something, but I don't want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

Often in companies, you'll see tensions between sales and marketing. Sales people will want to give discounts to clients because they often get paid a commission based on how much they sell. So they're always pushing to give discounts because that will increase sales. Marketing, however, is judged by overall profitability.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Often in films, you have no idea where you're going to be six months from now. And I grew very weary of that. And television, although it wasn't necessarily as creatively diverse as filmmaking can be, it was the lifestyle choice that I needed to make.
‐‐ Alec Baldwin

Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.
‐‐ James Wolk

Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that a movie is a different thing, and it can't possibly be the same as the book.
‐‐ Lois Lowry

Often in the past, when we have had a deaf person in the spotlight, we have been portrayed badly. It was up to me to change that.
‐‐ Nyle DiMarco

Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.
‐‐ Peter L. Bergen

Often it's a lack of time, not taste, that leads someone to hire a decorator. A good decorator/client relationship should be like a marriage. The time one puts in needs to be extensive. One needs to listen to them and understand what they like and how they live.
‐‐ Nicholas Haslam

Often it's the case that we have to do a lot of exploration and marketing of the material we publish ourselves to get a big political impact for it.
‐‐ Julian Assange

Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh.
‐‐ Darin Strauss

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
‐‐ Bill Watterson

Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, 'Well, I have to do that.'
‐‐ Toby Jones

Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted.
‐‐ Emma Stone

Often leaders have the best intentions, but people cannot read their minds. That's why it's important to declare yourself: Tell people why you choose to lead and the code you live by.
‐‐ Douglas Conant

Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.
‐‐ Henry Mintzberg

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.
‐‐ Deb Caletti

Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

Often my characters don't know what the issues of the play are. They think they're doing one thing, but something else is actually orchestrating their lives.
‐‐ David Rabe

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.
‐‐ Georges Rouault

Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.
‐‐ Nick Vujicic

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.
‐‐ Margaret Young

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
‐‐ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.
‐‐ Alvin E. Roth

Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
‐‐ Billy Collins

Often, people who want to make interesting films simply don't have the money to do it.
‐‐ Emily Browning

Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

Often, psychological laziness will have you switch your life over to autopilot and fall asleep at the wheel rather than stay awake to what will fulfill your heart's deepest desires and your soul's purpose.
‐‐ Debbie Ford

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
‐‐ Terry Gross

Often, some people dress something up to make it sound scientific, use scientific words, call themselves doctor something-or-other, and then you look them up, and they're trying to make it sound like something it's not. There's this entire field that's adding the word 'quantum' to everything. It doesn't even make sense in that context.
‐‐ Elise Andrew

Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of.
‐‐ James Laughlin