Stuff Quotes - Page 65

Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out.

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

If all you've got is somebody else's stuff that you've lifted, nothing really deep, then it is going to thin out.

There are no plans to do any more live stuff. I really feel like there's enough live shows out there.

The BBC, during its 24 hours on the air, plays a very wide range of stuff. And it's not commercial.

But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against writers like Barth and John Hawkes. I did not care for the post-modernist stuff; my allegiance was to realism.

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.

I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.

As soon as you have someone who's providing stuff to react to, especially working with a baby, it's great.

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.

The `50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way and then the `60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.

I do a lot of stuff in my career, but I like to keep a hand in horror.

There's plenty of great stuff out there. I think it's just what we do is we all spend our allowance on the thing that we're told is going to be the big event, and sometimes the big event is disappointing.

Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff.

I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.

Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to be good — suggestive of more than just what it is — it has to come perilously near being bad, just a view of stuff.

I think there's great stuff on television. I'm hooked on all these shows. I love watching these shows.

TV's great. I think the best stuff is happening on television.

Ridley Scott's company makes great work in whatever arena, whether it's movies or commercials or television. They just do really quality stuff, so you know it's going to be quality.

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently.