Finding Yourself Quotes - Page 16

Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.

When you do a lot of interviews, you find yourself telling the same stories over and over. After you do it for a whole day, you say, 'Christ, I've said this five times today.' It gets fun when you get so bored you start making it all up.

College is for finding yourself. I've established who I want to be.

That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until you find yourself concerned for the fates of characters who aren’t even fully convincing.

That's what happens when you're making a movie, you find yourself really loving all these people sitting across from you.

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

I always think W.S. Merwin's poems will last of anyone writing today. If I had to bet on posterity I would bet Merwin. My poems could easily evaporate. So I don't know. If you find yourself as a writer thinking about posterity you should probably go out for a brisk walk or something.

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the café or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

Which is one of the dangers of immersion journalism: you can find yourself getting sucked into battles you have nothing to do with, in this case an ongoing battle between Muslims.

When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.

Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!

When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.

If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.

Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones'?'