All Quotes

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.
‐‐ Hayden Christensen

One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
‐‐ N. T. Wright

One of the things I find exciting about Joan of Arc is how clearly the story of her life reveals the creation of myth, a process in which every one of us is involved - every one of us who tells stories and all those who listen, each informing the other.
‐‐ Kathryn Harrison

One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.
‐‐ Djimon Hounsou

One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.
‐‐ Michael Lindsay-Hogg

One of the things I find really hard and view as a massive drag... is that I'm losing my ability to be completely anonymous.
‐‐ Alexander Karp

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
‐‐ Ben Whishaw

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.
‐‐ Michael Lindsay-Hogg

One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.
‐‐ Scott Walker

One of the things I give Nancy Pelosi a lot of credit for is that she's able to get things passed and hold her members together because she shows us that she's doing everything possible to get our views into these bills.
‐‐ Peter Welch

One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts.
‐‐ Dennis Franz

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

One of the things I had to really work on is, when you're the leader of an organization, people look at the expression on your face. Your mood has a lot to do with how people think the whole organization is doing.
‐‐ Jim Yong Kim

One of the things I have always enjoyed about Scientology is their proactive approach to journalists who are covering them.
‐‐ Louis Theroux

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.
‐‐ David Oyelowo

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
‐‐ Russell Banks

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.
‐‐ Laura Mvula

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
‐‐ Ira Glass

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.
‐‐ Michael Tolkin

One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.
‐‐ Laurie Anderson

One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can't sustain for four straight hours.
‐‐ Pamela Adlon

One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.
‐‐ Adrian Cronauer

One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.
‐‐ Eric Holder

One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.
‐‐ Abraham Pais

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
‐‐ Lucille Ball

One of the things I learned very early on is you need to cast the kids for the characters you want them to play. They need to be who they are, right? If you want a loud, boisterous kid character, you need to find that kid.
‐‐ James Wan

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.
‐‐ Lennie James

One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
‐‐ Bill Murray

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
‐‐ James Purefoy

One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing.
‐‐ Bernard Sumner

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.
‐‐ Michael Emerson

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.
‐‐ Tim Berners-Lee

One of the things I like about the Internet is it does force us to realize we're all humans, and it forces us to look at the pattern of people, not one moment.
‐‐ David Sze

One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it.
‐‐ Tim Vine

One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me.
‐‐ Alison Sweeney

One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
‐‐ Nancy Kerrigan

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
‐‐ Dean Koontz

One of the things I like to do during an 'overhaul' revision is bust out my highlighters and colored pens. Tools like these make me feel like a real writer.
‐‐ Lisa Graff

One of the things I liked about my character in 'Run' is that she can just disappear into the background if she wants, which is what I'm like.
‐‐ Katie Leung

One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation.
‐‐ Lennie James

One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
‐‐ Sally Hawkins

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.
‐‐ Jessica Lange

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.
‐‐ Jill Scott

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.
‐‐ Mike Figgis

One of the things I love about directing is I love actors, because no matter how complex they are, once you get down to working and talking to them and the toughest guy will want you to open them up and he wants to show you stuff he was afraid to show anybody before.
‐‐ James Brolin

One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classical music, execution is first and intent is second, meaning that you must first learn a piece before you can truly add your interpretation to it.
‐‐ Irvin Mayfield

One of the things I love about music is live performance.
‐‐ Yo-Yo Ma

One of the things I love about New York is that it's one of the only places where you could have an entire restaurant dedicated to macaroni and cheese.
‐‐ Savannah Guthrie

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.
‐‐ Joyce DiDonato

One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.
‐‐ Donald Miller

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.
‐‐ Annie Parisse

One of the things I love about shooting the most is that there's no specific body type or body build that someone has to have.
‐‐ Matt Emmons

One of the things I love about working with my brother is that there's a commitment there - an unwavering commitment. From our basement in Illinois when I was three years old to Iceland on a frozen glacier with Matthew McConaughey and Matt Damon in spacesuits - there's a commitment to the pure spectacle, the pure cinema of it.
‐‐ Jonathan Nolan

One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
‐‐ Kate Grenville

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I'm comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He's comfortable in us.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days.
‐‐ Danielle de Niese

One of the things I loved about working on 'Portal' was that we'd get emails from people saying, 'I love to play first-person shooters but my girlfriend won't play them with me. But I got her to play 'Portal' and she had a blast.'
‐‐ Kim Swift