You could say I'm a bit of a nomad.
‐‐ Poppy Delevingne
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?
‐‐ Imelda Staunton
You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.
‐‐ Martin Freeman
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
‐‐ Slavoj Zizek
You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.
‐‐ Simon Callow
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
‐‐ Ian Mcewan
You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of other things.
‐‐ Stefan Sagmeister
You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.
‐‐ Fred Frith
You could say that I am the Estee Lauder woman. I'm a working mother; time is valuable to me. I want a good product; I want quality.
‐‐ Aerin Lauder
You could say that Iron Man was a second-tier character, and it turned out very successfully. I simply think it's down to the movie itself, and whether people enjoy the movie, are involved in the movie, and that it entertains them. From that point of view, the movie has to stand alone.
‐‐ Martin Campbell
You could say that it's in talking movies that inner life begins to appear. You can see things happen to the faces of people that were neither planned nor rehearsed.
‐‐ Mike Nichols
You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
‐‐ Ulrich Beck
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
‐‐ Lars von Trier
You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.
‐‐ Moby
You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.
‐‐ Henry Rollins
You could summarize everything I did at Apple was making tools to empower creative people. 'QuickDraw' empowered all these other programmers to now be able to sling stuff on the screen. The 'Window Manager,' 'Event Manager,' and 'Menu Manager.' Those are things that I worked on that were empowering other people.
‐‐ Bill Atkinson
You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.
‐‐ BeBe Winans
You could take the Internet enthusiasm that was happening in 1999 and 2000 here in the U.S., and in China it was three-to-five times more ebullient.
‐‐ Mary Meeker
You could tell that America was gearing up for war.
‐‐ Jack Adams
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood
You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.
‐‐ Charlton Heston
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk
You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they'd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head.
‐‐ Ray Walston
You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
‐‐ Elon Musk
You could watch entire villages and see what everyone was doing. I watched NSA tracking people's Internet activities as they typed. I became aware of just how invasive U.S. surveillance capabilities had become. I realized the true breadth of this system. And almost nobody knew it was happening.
‐‐ Edward Snowden
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell
You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.
‐‐ Jack Germond
You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.
‐‐ Roy Rogers
You couldn't define the '80s when the '80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shoulder pads, then we didn't. It was revealing, and then it was decoration. It was a lot of things at once. It was defined when it was over.
‐‐ Donatella Versace
You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals.
‐‐ Spike Milligan
You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.
‐‐ Satya Bhabha
You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
‐‐ Usher
You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.
‐‐ Isabel Allende
You couldn't get less royal than me.
‐‐ Lena Headey
You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's happy. I am, at 74. Some people like doing it, but I never was much for that, anyway. It's a lot of work. So the only thing I miss about all of it is the camaraderie of the tour, but that doesn't offset the rest of it.
‐‐ Phil Everly
You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.
‐‐ Cilla Black
You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince.
‐‐ Michael Scheuer
You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.
‐‐ Paul Kantner
You couldn't have human society without language.
‐‐ John Maynard Smith
You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.
‐‐ Robin Wright
You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.
‐‐ Christopher Meloni
You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
‐‐ Maya Lin
You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good.
‐‐ Jakob Dylan
You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me.
‐‐ Dougray Scott
You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins
You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.
‐‐ Kenneth Cranham
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
‐‐ David Byrne
You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.
‐‐ Steven Squyres
You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.
‐‐ Dev Anand
You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.
‐‐ Colm Toibin