They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment. – Stephen Fry
There’s acting, and then there’s auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part. – Teddy Sears
Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That’s a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it’s not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers. – Zadie Smith
I didn’t do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands… that wasn’t me. – Solomon Burke
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots. – Thurgood Marshall
Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down. – Woody Harrelson
I need to go someplace faraway that doesn’t have telephones and doesn’t have a record player and doesn’t have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything. – Will Oldham
If I don’t have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something – a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas. – Thomas Perry
I’m always thinking of stuff; I just don’t sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I’ll make a note of it on my phone. – Wanda Sykes
We don’t always know what we’re doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, ‘Oh, neat’. – Tina Weymouth
I’ve always wanted my music to have that desperation, where you just want to strip your clothes off and run down the highway. I want the feeling where you don’t really know what to do with yourself – in the vocals, in the production. Everything. – Tove Lo
There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away. – Tom Golisano
When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them – their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime. – Uzo Aduba
I think about the movie ‘Jaws.’ They had this state-of-the-art animatronic shark, but it kept breaking down, which kept delaying the filming. So, they had to use it very sparingly, but it became why the film was so good because you never saw the shark. You only heard about it, and it was suggested. – Tom Ellis
It’s not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it. – Veronica Roth
I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven’t put it down since. – Slash
There is no modern prototype for a campus. You have to have a completely different model which has to do with transparency and exposing social connectivity and breaking down the Balkanization that happens departmentally. – Thom Mayne
I’ve never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But I have learnt how to give myself a bit of waist by optical illusion. For this, bring on the belts. – Twiggy
I was turning down cigarette campaigns before it became fashionable. I wouldn’t let CBS Radio sell ‘The Stan Freberg Show’ to R.J. Reynolds and American Tobacco, which had sponsored Jack Benny, the man I replaced. – Stan Freberg
I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he’s the rock star, so let him get married first; then I’ll think about myself. – Yuvraj Singh
Ally McBeal walks down the streets crying, looking for the right man. I don’t do that. – Vonda Shepard
There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone’s throats. – Sam Taylor-Johnson
