Andrew Bird Quotes

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

Andrew Bird

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• I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Happy
  • Films
  • Liking

• I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Why
  • Happy

• As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Happy
  • Age
  • Stop

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

  

  Tacitus
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Adversity

• A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Others

• When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Help

• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Habit

• Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Children
  • Age

• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Happy
  • Enjoy
  • Be Happy

• A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Man

• I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses – which I will do anyway.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Happy
  • Scary
  • Living

• I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Happy

• I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Motivated
  • Pictures

• I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Happy
  • Culture
  • Way

• Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Nice

• People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Like

• I don't want to think about what I'm doing in 20 years. All I want is I want to be happy, and I hope my family are healthy. And that's all, really.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Hope

• 'Trotter its all wrong. Nothing turned out the way it was supposed to.' 'How do you mean supposed to? Life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough.' .. 'If life is so bad, how come you're so happy?' 'Did I say bad? I said it was tough. Nothing to make you happy like doing good on a tough job, now is there?'

  

  Katherine Paterson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• When I first experienced the millennial response to me, I had come out of a classified briefing, and I told the group of media individuals who were there that I didn't think James Comey had any credibility, and I threw up my hands and walked away - that went viral.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • Up

• I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Eyes
  • Poetry

• I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started playing in groups I did a silly thing and dropped it. It's great if you can write things down.

  

  John Henry Bonham Band of Joy
  • Writing
  • Firsts
  • Silly

• I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Happy
  • Motivated