Pretty Quotes
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I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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I just think technology is pretty amazing. Like all things that are great, you have to be responsible about how much you use it.
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I think being a young female star must be really, really pretty rough.
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I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.
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My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.
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Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.
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Being an Australian that's been No. 1 in the world back home playing in Australia, that's a pretty cool moment to have.
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If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.
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Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
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Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of you and nurtures you... and when you have lost that, and you want to get that back, it's pretty easy to get emotional about it.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns. It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything.
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I think I'm pretty average. Typical.
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For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
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Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I do well with peoples' parents, but I've certainly had friends who were not. One of my best friends is pretty consistently reviled by his girlfriends' parents!
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I started playing music at a pretty young age.
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If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
