Musicians make up for the copies of their songs that get pirated by performing live. I don’t think there will be as many people showing up to hear me read as to hear Beyonce sing. We need to make sure piracy is dealt with effectively. – Scott Turow
Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you’re a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you’re a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you’re going to get at it. Acting’s no different. – Tom Sizemore
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator’s skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen. – William Bernbach
When I’m in Senegal, I can’t just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself. – Youssou N’Dour
The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books. – Sidney Sheldon
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. – Steven Wright
Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think ‘Wayne’s World’ really hit the mark. – Stephnie Weir
People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don’t see themselves as storytellers. – Stefan Sagmeister
We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show’s success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater! – William Petersen
The best way to avoid falling prey to the opinions of others is to realize that other people’s opinions are just that – opinions. Regardless of how great or terrible they think you are, that’s only their opinion. Your true self-worth comes from within. – Travis Bradberry
There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about – the thing about screen acting is that you can read people’s thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that. – Toby Jones
Alzheimer’s is literally killing us, and the only way to fight this ‘crime’ is through a groundswell of people who continue to raise their voices and funds to ensure it gets the attention it deserves. – Tess Gerritsen
I first became interested in style when I was 16 and I had my first couple of gigs. I realised I couldn’t look like the people I was performing to. Not in a condescending way, but just that it would be weird if I was wearing exactly what someone in the crowd was wearing. – Tinie Tempah
When people say, ‘You seem so grounded; you seem so normal,’ I think it’s the way I was raised and the way my sister and I were brought up by our parents. – Trisha Yearwood
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can’t write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush. – Todd McFarlane
People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That’s how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes. – Terry Bradshaw
As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job. – Sam Neill
I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers. – Tupac Shakur
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser’s passion, not the thief s. – William Blake
I prefer to stay in if I have a choice. I lose energy being around people. I know that sounds horrible. – Shamir
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them. – Tony Robbins
My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships. – Vikas Swarup
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. – Thornton Wilder
People feel feminists are aggressive, men-hating women with a little moustache. I think it’s got a bad reputation because when feminism came into being, we were facing so much opposition that we had to be strident and aggressive. – Twinkle Khanna
