Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.
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Related If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, ... TONY KUSHNER The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and ... CHARLES S. DUTTON I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don... WEN HO LEE I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself int... NATALIE MERCHANT Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you wer... ED SHEERAN As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what peopl... FREDDIE HIGHMORE Sometimes you can be with someone that you love, but you know it's not healthy for you. You stay... BENNY CASSETTE I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afrai... PATINA MILLER You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the c... SOPHIA AMORUSO Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doi... ANDRE AGASSI If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able ... ASTRO TELLER The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your s... DIDO ARMSTRONG You're always aware that only eight per cent of actors are in work at one time, so you've go... BEN HARDY You can't drink too many otherwise you can't see what you're throwing at. ERIC BRISTOW Ryan is an amazing person. When I was his age, I wasn't thinking about giving someone a kidney. ... GRIZZ CHAPMAN You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, yo... CARLISLE FLOYD I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can... ASHTON KUTCHER If you don't write about what you know, you're like a barrister and have to do a frightful a... NGAIO MARSH They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year peri... ALEXANDER PAYNE I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of t... ESTER DEAN A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can... ANNE HATHAWAY You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writi... REBECCA SUGAR You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? BERNADETTE PETERS To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You di... LORRIE MOORE It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you ca... LENA DUNHAM It's annoying when someone's in front of you driving ten miles an hour, and you're like,... GLENN DANZIG The thing about interviews is that if someone interviews you, and they're an idiot, then they ma... DEAN WAREHAM But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always ... JENA MALONE When you're comfortable with someone, you don't look for anyone else. DANIELA PESTOVA Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometim... BETHANY HAMILTON I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's int... WENDIE MALICK Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, yo... TABITHA KING If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. Yo... NICK FLYNN You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing ... CHRIS MARTIN Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps are the greatest to ever do what they did, and I'm not. But if... JORDAN SPIETH A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. ... KARRINE STEFFANS When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and troub... BOB BEAMON Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I... DAN CASTELLANETA I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeke... MATT DILLON I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're... ROBERT WAGNER You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you&... JOHN CARROLL LYNCH Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything els... JOHN IRVING If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her... JEFF BUCKLEY If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you. MARK HOPPUS What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you ... ADRIAN LYNE Obstruction can be caused by so many factors - perfectionism, distraction, faltering confidence, ext... CLAIRE MESSUD If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it. DAN FOGLER You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligatio... MARLA GIBBS We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're... EDDIE VAN HALEN Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do... SYLVESTER STALLONE When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make ... MITCH DANIELS When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thin... EDGAR WRIGHT You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you li... YOLANDI VISSER I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you ... WENDY COPE You can almost hear people saying, 'We're going to make a movie about an election' and &... KEVIN SPACEY Don't be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think you... JACQUELINE MACINNES WOOD Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking. MAHALIA JACKSON An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something. ALEC ISSIGONIS When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big ... JUDY BLUME 'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you ca... EDDIE MURPHY You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is de... WAYNE GRADY When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role ... BRADLEY WHITFORD Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're n... MAX GREENFIELD You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to... FRANK ZAPPA When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you ... CHRIS LILLEY When you're in the limelight, you can't always lash out. JUSTINE SKYE At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you c... KEVIN GARNETT It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself... SAM DEW When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and ... MICKALENE THOMAS Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a ... SHAWN AMOS When doing a series, I look for something that has an idea you can think about, something that I'... DARREN STAR A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly,... JASON STATHAM You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write '... DAN HILL Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you ... MARY J. BLIGE Lawyers don't serve everyone... Lawyers right now can say, 'I'm not the person to help y... BILL HASLAM I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write ab... LOU REED If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another ... TIMOTHY LEARY Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write... RICKEY MEDLOCKE What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of s... CAROL BERG Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, bu... CAROLYN CHUTE I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do th... DON YOUNG Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes. MARIO ANDRETTI You can't change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh wha... ERNESTO BERTARELLI Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part... ERIN MORGENSTERN I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything... JOE NAMATH Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if y... SARA BLAKELY My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled f... TORY LANEZ It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to... KARL PILKINGTON You can't be hateful because you love yourself. And we're extensions of each other; we'r... CHRISSY METZ If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make. DREW ENDY In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. Yo... NICOLAS SARKOZY You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thi... CHUCK YEAGER You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster. BEAR GRYLLS
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GELB I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting a... MICHAEL J. FOX I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes... MICHAEL J. FOX As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s... MICHAEL J. FOX There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion MICHAEL J. TUCKER Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and... MICHAEL J. COHEN Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying a... MICHAEL J. FOX [T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its valu... MICHAEL J. SANDEL First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the prin... MICHAEL J. SANDEL This is heavy, Doc. MICHAEL J. FOX In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix... MICHAEL J. COHEN The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintel... MICHAEL J. BEHE The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. MICHAEL J. FOX What other people think about me is not my business. MICHAEL J. FOX I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's j... MICHAEL J. FOX If you're lucky, in some point in the future when you're in need of guidance or perhaps moral suppor... MICHAEL J. FOX Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. MICHAEL J. FOX You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan... MICHAEL J. FOX The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl... J. MICHAEL BREWER I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look a... MICHAEL J. FOX Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers an... MICHAEL J. FOX Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ... MICHAEL J. BEHE The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula... MICHAEL J. BEHE Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc... MICHAEL J. BEHE The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or... MICHAEL J. BEHE Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ... MICHAEL J. BEHE You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had... MICHAEL J. FOX Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm. “Yes, I see it, but—” �... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN How are you speaking?” Gryndal asked. “With my mouth,” she said. “Does everyone play th... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Remember, it’s easier to believe an outlandish lie confirming what you suspect than the most obvio... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN What length will a mother go to on behalf of her child? How long is time? What is the depth of love?... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Strange game, this stating the obvious,” Suri said, shaking her head. She got up and joined Minna ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Why are you here?” “Oh— I came to tell the chieftain we’re going to die.” The girl sa... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Caught early enough, the waking forest had no time to disguise itself into something mundane. This w... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Sunlight had a way of showing the realities that shadows born of firelight hid. The MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN