Up Quotes
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By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across - each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip - is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.
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I've always loved watches my whole life. When I was growing up, I always thought of having a great watch as that next step - of making it, of a rite of passage.
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Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.
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In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way they want Scotland to look like and to behave like.
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I'm endorsed by Yamaha. I represent Yamaha, and I really like the way that piano handles and capacitates the force that I put into it without losing the shape of the sound and the contour, and it really holds up well.
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In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.
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I know that it's axiomatic in the film industry that you're not supposed to let the novelist develop their own story. Well, first of all, that's kind of up to the novelist - because they don't have to sell it. But also, I don't believe it. It's about trust.
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I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.
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I had a kid, so I had to step it up and get that cake.
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I can't wait to design the performance. I want to make a moment that is about much more than me. Performing in space is such an honor. I want to challenge myself to come up with something that will not only bring everyone together but will also have a message of love that blasts into the beyond.
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Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband.
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Blurryface is this character that I came up with that represents a certain level of insecurity.
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My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.
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It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not receiving feedback on your performance.
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The IRS sent back my tax return saying I owed $800. I said, 'If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip... which, according to your own very latest government Pentagon spending figures, will more than make up the difference.'
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I grew up in Indiana. I'm a late bloomer, very naive.
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Lots of people come up to me and call me Sir Bruce now. Interviewers call me Sir with every question, but I never make a point of making people call me Sir. It doesn't matter to me, though; it was a great honour to be knighted. I'm very proud of it.
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The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with.
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My mood depends heavily on what happens to me right after I get up.
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The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium.
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You've had all that punk and New Wave thing, and I think people have really got sick up to here with it. I know I have.
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Instead of yelling your opinion, or telling people to shut up, or engaging in this clickbait-internet culture, have a dialogue with someone and ask people questions and listen to what they have to say.
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words!
