I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.
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Related I think that that's why I am probably a romantic and a passionate person. But I also have a very dis... SHAKIRA We both know... that soon everything is going to end... ... This chat will be in the... DEYTH BANGER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I a... SIMON WINCHESTER I kept at it. I don't like to have nothing to do, so I went and asked people if they had anything I ... SHIRLEY NORTON Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But... DAN GILROY I am the kind of guy who has never taken myself too seriously. I mean, I am very serious about what ... COREY TAYLOR I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very u... PATTI SMITH We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it. I s... GEORGE SHEARING I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget... CASSANDRA CLARE When I was doing 'Family Ties,' I was not quite that mellow as a real father. In fact, my wi... MICHAEL GROSS A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of like... MICK MARS A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guit... DAVID GILMOUR We really have to have a junkyard dog mentality and that's the way we have to play. I want us to be ... BRENT SUTTER Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut. ART GARFUNKEL I'm kind of a disciplined person but I don't take anything too seriously. And I think a lot of that ... ANGELA CARTWRIGHT When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me wan... MIGUEL ZENON I am very conscious that, from the time of 'The God of Small Things' was published 10 years ... ARUNDHATI ROY I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I ha... MARION COTILLARD There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private perso... MARY TYLER MOORE I think we haven't had a real serious national debate in this country as to what this issue is about... ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI These armed groups of people have appeared in a very specific environment, and we have been trying a... IBRAHIM RUGOVA I immediately said to myself Ive got to do something, ... Ive got to help as many as I can. I am not... AMY COLLINS I do enjoy filming, but I do consider myself still to be a bit of a novice, and I learn a bit every ... GEMMA JONES Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER They are not going to make any big mistakes giving up a big play, so what we had to do was be discip... ERRON KINNEY I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls.... ALICE MUNRO I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a re... BILL NIGHY I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young pe... JEREMY CORBYN I knew that her canvas was deeper than she had allowed herself to be, ... Something About Mary and C... SHIRLEY MACLAINE I don't want to paint myself as some villain - I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but ... ANDY BIERSACK I like the team at Delaware. They're a fun team but they're also disciplined. And I love coach Marti... BRITTANY BELL My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. ROMAN POLANSKI We are a disciplined team; defense-oriented. I cannot tell you how proud I am of their unselfishness... ROCKY RUSSO I've been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I've had some v... EDDIE TRUNK Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has ... MARIA MONTESSORI Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when h... MARIA MONTESSORI To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way. CORITA KENT I think we've been a lot more disciplined with our bowling. Our batting at times has been more disci... RICKY PONTING I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote mys... ELIZABETH GILBERT I have a deep feeling for Kashmir, and I just had to write this book, ... [But] it's very hard to wr... SALMAN RUSHDIE I think there's definitely something to be said for momentum. Traditionally our starts to the season... LIZA KELLY I think our kids felt like they weren't getting a lot of respect. But they showed a lot of character... DAVID RICHMOND I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures! YANI TSENG I'm very young, I have a lot to learn. I felt like I grew a lot... I got to watch myself, and, boy, ... JENNA MORASCA They're a very good, disciplined team. We scratched to tie it and found a way to push one across in ... RONNIE DAVIS I had a pretty cool life. I met my wife when I was 18, and we're still totally in love. I was in a s... GLEN PHILLIPS The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a... JOHN HURT We're going to take it day to day and team by team as far as how we're going to play. We have very g... ALLISON MAIRE When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spen... LESLIE MANN The older I get, for me it's about fear. If I read something and it scares the hell out of me, t... ALAINA HUFFMAN For me, writing music is kind of like a musical mirror where I write music and learn about myself in... DANIEL TRUEMAN GS I want to do everything right now! This very minute. I am impatient, but yes I have goals. To be a r... LYNDA CARTER I am not a gifted person. I had only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challen... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW “The enemy of intelligent long term investing is the expression 'This time is different'. Actually... ROBERT BRAGLIA I have no way of comparing myself to other people my age; I can't compare myself with Jane Fonda... DIANA RIGG There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE We had a number of different scenarios worked out, but I never expected this, ... Im totally ecsta... JENNIFER JOHNSON I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's to... DONOVAN BAILEY It was a very disciplined life, MIKE JOHANNS I look very different on camera compared with how I do in real life. On camera, I look my best when ... MARTINE MCCUTCHEON We just have to keep our focus and stay disciplined. We were disciplined last season, but not as dis... GARFIELD YUILLE Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I don't want to make this a racial thing, but it's significant. I am very, very deeply honored to be... WARREN MOON I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. ... GREG NORMAN I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling ... CHARLES KIMBROUGH I'm not good at eating small meals. Some people can sit down and be very disciplined. When I sit... STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL I was very impressed by that. They were just very self-disciplined. JAN JENSEN I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I ha... ANTHONY JOSHUA I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my h... BRUCE RAUNER I never thought I am a stylish. For me, style is always a representation of what you want to wear bu... PRIYANKA CHOPRA Everything was very specific and very fitted. I can't tell you what we went through for this job... JULIAN MCMAHON I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific disci... DAMIEN CHAZELLE The only real difficulty with becoming disciplined is when you buy into the notion that happiness co... SHANNON L. ALDER I am very thankful and I am very confident that with this kind of support ... we will eventually be ... HAQ AHADI In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once... CRAIG GROESCHEL Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought proces... DONALD MCKAY Not a week has passed since I became headmaster of this school when I haven’t had at least one owl... J.K. ROWLING We have to learn to adjust to opposing teams tactics. They played very disciplined. Frustrate you ge... KEVIN ALBURY I'm not very disciplined. I stopped and I would start again, then stop, LAURA EVANS Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life. BEYONCE KNOWLES Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a ... DALAI LAMA XIV Yeah he's a kind of very kindly, very nurturing teacher with a little dark secret that I am supposed... DAVID THEWLIS
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JOAN COLLINS During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with t... JOAN BAEZ I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that. JOAN CUSACK Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I l... JOAN CHEN I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like ... JOAN COLLINS I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, ... JOAN JETT Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding yo... JOAN RIVERS I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man ... JOAN COLLINS I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18... JOAN COLLINS I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all ov... JOAN RIVERS I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman u... JOAN RIVERS Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same ... JOAN COLLINS I know who you are, and I am not impressed. JOAN JETT Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awar... JOAN TOLLIFSON Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw f... JOAN LUNDEN I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He... JOAN RIVERS Action is the antidote to despair. JOAN BAEZ Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate. JOAN JETT I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It mak... JOAN JETT With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what deat... JOAN RIVERS If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst. JOAN CRAWFORD My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, ... JOAN RIVERS When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral... JOAN DIDION Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is ... JOAN KIRNER