St. Justin Quotes

I listened to a lot of Michael Jackson growing up. A lot of Boyz II Men. I loved Mariah Carey. Just big vocalists. I was always that kid who just wore whatever and did whatever.

I always looked up to Michael [Jackson] because he was never afraid to just be himself, never tried to be anything that he wasn't.

Why would I give up so much to just be another singer or another person doing what he loves? I'm out here doing everything to the best of my capability to be the best.

I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well.

I don't own a jet, but I rent jets in my spare time. That's the quickest and most comfortable.

I know a lot of mainstream hip-hop people, have been listening to things like Aphex Twin for years. When somebody first played me some of that album, I was just like, "Woah!"

I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid.

What I like about electronic music is you don't really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You can just make sound, noise even, whatever it may be.

I'd always loved hip-hop.

I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism.

When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me as such in any band.

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company and later my degree course all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.

Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

I would not be able to retain all the information, all the medical jargon these doctors do. I'm not really intelligent enough is what I'm saying.

As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.

In college you can get away with things based off your athletic ability versus some of the other players.

I feel that I'm more of a speed player, being able to rush the edge with a lot of speed coming around the corner. But I also have the athletic ability to cover and play in space.

I'm very competitive and if I'm not in the weight room than someone is getting better than me. I just have to stay in there and prove myself any way that I can.

In the off-season you like to take a little time for yourself, but I'd like to say that people say I live in the weight room and that I had the keys to it. That's just the type of character I am.

I'm able to mentally adapt to things very well.

So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.

It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.

The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.

She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.

Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.

When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.

I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

I like creating villains.

I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes, but that's the extent of my direct experience in Hollywood.

I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.

I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.

He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.

The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the time. He would cry and cry and never stop.

There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new direction, as long as I can get it back to where I need it to go.

And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.

If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.

Writing is a job: you must show up.