The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I’d written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose. – Natalie Babbitt
I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that’s going to take me a year. – Ed Balls
After ‘Place Beyond the Pines,’ honestly, I was sick of myself. Sick of my own ideas. I wanted to do an adaptation, but everything I’d been reading, I just didn’t understand it. – Derek Cianfrance
I don’t want to just model. Anyone can do that. I’ve let myself be in magazines in the past without participating as much as I should have. – Evangeline Lilly
Believe me, I don’t like being photographed. I don’t like myself in pictures. Actually, I do sometimes. – Darius Khondji
I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn’t want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn’t ever want to do it again. – Macaulay Culkin
I’ve done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I’m enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while. – Delta Goodrem
I always keep myself busy. I’m writing. Or I’m creating something. Or I’m doing stuff with the kids. I’m up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night. – Natascha McElhone
When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn’t get in – twice. – Emily Watson
Hopefully, sometime I get a superpower. I would like to be able to transport myself wherever I wanted. – Chloe Bennet
I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons. – M. J. Hyland
I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being ‘someone’s girlfriend’, and now I am happy being single. – Penelope Cruz
I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself. – Christopher Atkins
I probably visualize myself, the shots I’m going to get in the game, how I’m going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team’s best player, what it’s going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game. – Paul Pierce
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. – Dante Alighieri
I don’t pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older. – Diana Quick
You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn’t. And they think anyone who would name himself Meat Loaf couldn’t have an IQ higher than four. – Meat Loaf
Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure. – Felix Mendelssohn
I don’t presume to describe myself as a creator anymore, but I certainly love the process, and I hope I can do a lot of great things for the talent who are in and around DC. – Diane Nelson
I’ve found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, ‘Well, this actually happened, and this is fantastic!’ That’s why I don’t like fantasy, in a way. Because it’s sort of in emptiness. – Michael Hirst
The first PC that I actually bought myself was a Toshiba Papman in 1985. This model was one of the very first laptops; I remember that it was a revolution at the time! – Francois-Henri Pinault
I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers. – Nat King Cole
I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself. – Christian McKay
