If someone says you’re a reporter and doesn’t want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it. – Gayle Gardner
Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you’re wearing, and you turn into someone else. – Jane Levy
I am definitely someone who needs to take a second by myself and stretch and breathe before a show. – Jake Epstein
I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who’s been a musician. – Juliana Hatfield
ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening. – Joe Biden
I’ve worked as someone’s deputy, and now it’s time for me to run something. It’s time for me to run my own shop. – John Podhoretz
Ajax is a multicultural club, and we have found that many talented immigrant players quit when they reach puberty. So we wanted to tackle this problem with someone from the same background who had come through it. And that was Edgar Davids. During one of our fights, I pointed that out to him. But it had nothing to do with his skin colour. – Johan Cruyff
I don’t see myself as someone who’s ever going to be defined by one moment. It’s on to the next. – Justin Timberlake
For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It’s a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new. – Ira Glass
I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain. – Jonathan Safran Foer
And if you’re singing to someone, or if they’re singing along, and suddenly you’re in harmony, then it’s actually making a huge difference on a subatomic level that is actually transforming the world. – Jason Mraz
The problem with comedy audiences – it’s like the Coliseum – when they see someone struggling, they don’t feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it. – Jo Brand
It’s pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn’t get accepted. I’ve written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven’t actually ended up in their films, but then you’re left with a song forever. – Jenny Lewis
But I don’t really see myself as a role model. I’m not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored! – Isabella Rossellini
You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else’s plug, that you know what’s on the other side of the gravestone. – Joni Eareckson Tada
When you sit at your desk, if you’re lucky, there’s a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin. – John Updike
They just think I’m a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I’m Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino. – James Roday
The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College. – Godfried Danneels
When I got heartbroken at 20, it just felt like someone had spiraled a football right into my skull. At 40, it feels like someone had driven a 757 right through me. – Junot Diaz
Just because someone’s dead doesn’t mean it’s over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell. – Julian Clary
I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else. – Jurgen Klopp
A mad person isn’t someone who sees what isn’t there; he’s someone who sees what is there but that others can’t see. I really believe that. – John Burnside
The Christian – the biblical – concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve. – John Piper
When you make a TV show, they always say you’re a guest in someone’s home. Online, you’re a guest in someone’s face. So that’s why I try to make it sound and look and feel very inviting and attractive, because I know that I’m in your face. – Jerry Seinfeld
I’ve always loved acoustic music because I’ve always loved to hear someone’s words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it’s so assaulting. – Jane Siberry
You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who’s ready when the gong rings – not just before, not just after – but when it rings. – Jack Dempsey
Every time someone downloads a picture, the photographers get paid about 30% of what we charge. – Jon Oringer
There are times when what you do will be mysterious to everyone… times when you have to change directions before people are ready. Just because someone does something that critics don’t like or understand doesn’t mean you’re failing as a musician. It probably means you’re growing. – Jeff Buckley
I used to like to break into other people’s houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone’s empty house. – Jared Leto