If forced to choose between a book and a Kindle, I’d opt for the comfort and ease of bound pages. I mean, I can’t break a book if I drop it on a cement floor. – Jen Lancaster
Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight. – Lynn Flewelling
I’m a very private person, a very bookish person. The social world of Hollywood I know nothing about because I choose not to take part. – John Logan
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.’ – Lewis Carroll
I choose material instinctually – at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground. – Kathryn Bigelow
I guess I don’t have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way. – Jill Davis
It’s the gap in the teeth. My friends say I look like Shrek – some of my friends – and you can’t choose your friends, so what can I say? – Louis Oosthuizen
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right. – Marianne Williamson
At this point, I’m happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I’m passionate about. – Liam Hemsworth
I choose to feel optimistic, because I don’t think I could get out of bed if I didn’t. – Kerry Washington
I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn’t take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans. – Jean-Jacques Annaud
Choose beliefs that serve your soul – choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be. – Joy Page
I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about. – Michelle Obama
What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission? – Lisa Murkowski
All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability – the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths. – John Gerzema
This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court. – Rosario Dawson
Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction. – Ridley Scott
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. – Richard Bach
There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them. – Robert J. Bentley
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. – Rollo May
The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers. – Rashid Johnson
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. – Salman Rushdie
As soon as you’re finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you’re going to commit to because the visual effects vendor has to get it because they’ll spend months on it. So, you’re editing out of sequence before you’ve gotten a film for the movie and the performances. – Richard LaGravenese