Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Hobb

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Gillian Anderson

I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Laura Vandervoort

I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.

Sue Miller

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?

Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

Marc Guggenheim

I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories.

Parry Aftab

Take their keyboards to work with you. They can live without the mouse, but not the keyboard.

Mick Ralphs

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

Al Madrigal

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

Feist

I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything.

Jay Watson

I'm a bit of a gunner on the QWERTY keyboard.

Christine McVie

I'd never want a studio guy. I wouldn't mind working with another keyboard player, but not a studio guy. It sounds very odd, but we're really snobbish about doing everything ourselves whenever possible, so I'd rather just play the piano lines myself.

Marc Almond

People are always reinventing music. We were an oddity when we formed, just a singer and a keyboard player.

Lia Ices

I think sitting behind a keyboard can be a security blanket.

Clifford Stoll

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

Roger Ebert

The Academy is paranoid about its image.

Sigmund Freud

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Anushka Sharma

I'm paranoid about shopping. I get irritable. I find it tedious and taxing. People say shopping is retail therapy, but I need therapy after shopping.

Jack Wilson

We've been through some very rough times. But we survived. Now we're on the rebound.

Jarvis Herring

We talk about it a lot. It has been a rough road. But if we end up with at least a 10-win season, it will have been worth it.

Clay Hensley

I had a rough first inning. I don't think it was jitters. I was just trying to be too fine, but then I started settling down.

Larry Phillips

It's been a rough, a rough year. Really rough year,

Jerry Huffman

It's very rough and it's not going to be over tomorrow or the day after. Something like this you're never going to get over. There's a void now.

Jon Lieber

It was just a rough day. Things snowballed.

John Hartford

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

Mia Washington

It was a rough game. We just weren't competitive tonight.

Zach Pollakoff

Our shows can be uplifting for somebody having a rough day.

Hope White

I'll be very shocked if we didn't use all of it.

Karlie Kloss

Every single day I'm shocked.

Kenneth Darby

Brodie kind of shocked me today. All I could do was just smile.

Serena Williams

I'm playing to around 30% of my potential - you'd be shocked at what I could do.

Astro Teller

When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.

Bobby Bowden

I was shocked that he wasn't first team All-ACC. It made so sense.