Pretty Quotes
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My tastes are pretty varied. For instance, I love Wilco. But it's considered dad rock. It's one of my favorite bands, and yet I find it impossible not to think of myself as a dad-in-training when I listen to it.
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It's pretty amazing to me that we have had a space shuttle program that's lasted for 30 years - for one space shuttle. That's quite an achievement.
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The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me.
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I feel pretty secure about who I am.
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When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
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As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.
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Pretty much everywhere I go, I'm pretty much thinking I'm going to be bounced. I am still the outsider who snuck into the party. I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.
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I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.
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I'm weird. But I'm a pretty serious person.
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But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.
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PAYE means pay as you earn but it could also mean Pretty Accurate Yet Estimated.
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A big producer offered me the part of the pretty girl that waits at home for the guy, and I couldn't do it. That's not a story I ever want to tell.
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The thing is, in the dating profiles it says 'spiritual,' but not with a specific religion. And so I pretty much try to meditate, but I have a very hard time concentrating on things other than me.
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Because when every day is the End of Days, after a while they feel pretty much like every other day, even though you know that's crazy. And nothing is the same.
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My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.
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I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.
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She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
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'Dip it Low' is pretty highly requested for me. I get that a lot.
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When you're a plus-sized girl, belts are your best friends. I also love bright colors and skirts, to show my pretty knees.
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The technology I like is the American paperback edition of 'Freedom.' I can spill water on it, and it would still work! So it's pretty good technology.
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As soon as I got off the plane in L.A., I heard they'd cast the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy and that it was all being shot in New Zealand! That was pretty ironic.
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It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think.
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You don't know how pretty you are when you're young. Just being young is beautiful. And I was astonishingly pretty - you know, very skinny.
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When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.
