Used Quotes - Page 50

When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If you write just one scene where the audience is confused or it breaks their concentration in some way, then you've lost them, and you might never get them back.

I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I started thinking, This is what I like to do more than anything else.

I used to not really like going to the gym when I was playing tournaments because I'd be sore and stiff. But the more you keep doing it, the less soreness you have. And you actually start to enjoy it.

So when you are faced with a decision on the euro, it is not surprising that many people are confused. They still try to squeeze the euro debate into the old language. But deep down it is a matter of deciding where one's future lies. It is a matter of political will and courage.

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.

I saw School of Rock, and I was like, why haven't I worked with Richard Linklater already? Then by the time I got him I was like, I'm really pissed off I feel like you owe me some retroactive swag. He gave me the 10-year anniversary "Dazed and Confused" T-shirt, which I still wear with relish.

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

People might gain insight the longer they live, but things never get easy. There will always be challenges and miscommunications and the temptation to eat greasy, bowel clogging fried food, and take others for granted. The secret is to keep moving and try to see people yo love for what they are: flawed, beautiful and as confused as you.

I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.

The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.

I always used to sing in the shower, but I never really got into the music until a friend of mine helped me a lot with recording.

Follow your goals and stay focused, because you really don't have much time.

I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic because I like to impose constraints on myself, but I don't like them to be imposed from the outside.

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

There was a time when formal clothes were one of life's great pleasures, as well as a way of describing instantly a man's status wealth. Toffs wore the most, the proles the least. Fast forward to 2008 and clothes are still an unrivalled pleasure but some men - and this includes many of our betters - have confused status with fake informality.