When I started out in this business, I really wanted to become iconic, but I’m glad that didn’t happen. I like to do things like travel on public transport unnoticed. – Kiki Dee
Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life. – Karin Slaughter
I think that the dehumanization of another person can happen in the matter of an instant. – John Carroll Lynch
There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain’t about to happen! – J. J. Johnson
When people bully us, we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent. – Martin Freeman
If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen. – Kary Mullis
Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything. – John Sladek
AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning. – Larry Kramer
I don’t write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that’s going to happen. There’s an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it. – Larry David
Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them. – Jonathan Stroud
I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn’t happen, I realized it wasn’t the best version of my comedy. – Mike Birbiglia
If I’m put in a situation where I am not really sure what’s going to happen, it can be overwhelming. I get a bit anxious. – Misty Copeland
No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen? – Jose Padilha
But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen. – Jim Coleman
We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn’t going to happen. – Ken Mehlman
You can’t start worrying about what’s going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what’s happening now. – Lauren Bacall
One of the best things that can happen to any cause, to any people, is to have Bill Clinton as its advocate. That is how needy and neglected causes have become global initiatives. – Mitt Romney
Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly. – John Bruton
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen. – Lance Loud
When I got the phone call that I was told I was Peter Pan, I freaked out, because I was like, ‘Wow! How does that happen?’ But pretty much, from there on, everyone’s been so lovely. – Levi Miller