All Quotes

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.
‐‐ Mary Manin Morrissey

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.
‐‐ James Cromwell

Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.
‐‐ Erwin McManus

Often, we think that things are the way they are because of intelligent design - because somebody super-smart, or some group of academics, came up with the best system ever to do XYZ. Actually, things are often the way they are because of an accident of history.
‐‐ Leila Janah

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.
‐‐ Jennifer Granholm

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
‐‐ Nic Pizzolatto

Often, what makes my job so exciting is designing for the mother whose dream has been to wear one of my hats at her child's wedding. I feel as responsible for making her feel like a million dollars as I do for somebody in the public eye.
‐‐ Philip Treacy

Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
‐‐ Sally Quinn

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
‐‐ Iris Chang

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.
‐‐ Marilu Henner

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
‐‐ Johannes Tauler

Often when I finish a film I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.' And then, thank God, that feeling goes away after a month or so and I'm raring to go again.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

Often when I meet people and say I'm a designer, they say, 'Oh, a fashion designer.' Which is not a bad thing I suppose, a bit groovy.
‐‐ Ross Lovegrove

Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first.
‐‐ Flume

Often, when people ask me what I read as a young girl, I lie. Or, I should say, I lie by omission. I tell them about my brilliant fourth-grade teacher, Miss Artis, who assigned us 'Johnny Tremain' and 'Where the Red Fern Grows' and 'Tuck Everlasting,' all books that made an impression on me. And people nod in approval.
‐‐ Cristina Henriquez

Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.
‐‐ Natasha Leggero

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.
‐‐ Connie Nielsen

Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.
‐‐ Karen Joy Fowler

Often, when you're on a movie set, you're miserable. It's cold. You're hungry. You're tired. It's still dark out. And yet, there's no place I'd rather be. It's the happiest I am, and the most calm.
‐‐ Dakota Fanning

Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Beart

Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.
‐‐ Gelsey Kirkland

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.
‐‐ Minor White

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
‐‐ Nadia Giosia

Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.
‐‐ Hannah Simone

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.
‐‐ Claire Denis

Often, women who lose babies are blamed for the loss of those children and are ostracised.
‐‐ Jane Chen

Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very rare.
‐‐ Richard C. Armitage

Often you get wonderful singers who maybe aren't as strong as actors, or you get wonderful actors who can't sing very well.
‐‐ Alexander Hanson

Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.
‐‐ Sergei Bubka

Often, you're not quite sure what people have seen you in, but the script lands in your inbox. That was the case with 'The Night Manager.'
‐‐ Elizabeth Debicki

Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

Often you see people on the red carpet with tight up-dos, but that makes me feel stiff.
‐‐ Blake Lively

Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.
‐‐ Goldie Hawn

Oftentimes, actors don't have the luxury of picking their part. You go from one project to the next, and you hope that you find one that fits you and that you're suited for, and then they see that you're fit for it.
‐‐ Michael Trucco

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.
‐‐ Phil Klay

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.
‐‐ Michael Beschloss

Oftentimes, heavy weights can tear the muscle fiber causing it to bulk, but using a lighter weight for a longer duration and allowing your body to move in many different ways to target all of the muscles will lengthen them without tearing.
‐‐ Tracy Anderson

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's rare that they'll do a third or fourth or fifth or sixth follow-up, because there's an implicit, agreed-upon decorum that they move on. Kids don't necessarily move on if they don't get it.
‐‐ Brian Greene

Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.
‐‐ Cameron Diaz

Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
‐‐ Victoria Osteen

Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.
‐‐ Susanne Bier

Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.
‐‐ Melissa Bean