Able Quotes

I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.

I find myself hoping I can get on a TV show, and then people from Oklahoma will come to my restaurant. Then I'll be able to make enough money to open my own place.

I cant wait until Im able to afford really posh bags.

Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

If you look now, more than ever new entrants, new upstarts, are able to grow so much faster than they could before.

To be able to make a living, I went into television. Not necessarily planned from the beginning, since I was more familiar with features, and had developed a few scripts.

I'm a fan of musicals from great masters, and I was able to have an opportunity to express myself in musical numbers with Glee.

Fortunately, I had the luck to be able to begin to work and realize my potential in something that I like to do, and in something I had wanted to do, which was acting.

Am I going to be able to be the person I want to be in this relationship?

Telling someone to be confident in the abstract is not going to make it easier for the unconfident writer to actually get herself or himself to the point of being able to put in the upsetting stuff.

I've been able to find a lot of what I've not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It's empowering to find those things.

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically.

And I loved seeing that because they're great interesting cities in of themselves so I'm looking forward to actually being able to use it as itself instead of being a bad New York.

Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.

Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

I had worked so hard; that was my opportunity. And my mom was just able to turn it around for me. She helped me to be able to see the other side of things and that this is not the end for me.

For me, it's really important to be able to compete on the highest level.

And as long as I'm passionate about the sport, I'm able to do that and I'm happy, then I would love to do another Olympics. I'm just going to see how I'm feeling.

Obviously the Internet has become something of a leveler; it was once a luxury to be able to reach a mass audience, and now anybody can do it, to some extent.

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.

I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.

In the age of social media and dating apps, so many people are able to hide behind their Instagram page or their Raya page or Facebook.

If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.

Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and there freedom of speech comes into it.

REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

You'll never see me at the launch of the new PlayStation or some club. For me, the fun stuff is being able to get my mom tickets to 'Dancing With the Stars' - she loves Mario Lopez.

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.

I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.

You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events.

Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that's good for their confidence.

Times change, and right now what people need is, they need to be able to send their kids to college, they need to able to buy a house.

Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.

I'd meet a new filmmaker that I'd always loved, and I'd think, "Great! I'm in the right place." It's a weird way to look at it, but I don't care as long as I'm able to make stuff that I want to make.

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

You're not always able to choose.

You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles.

I've always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There's nothing I can do about it but I've never not been able to stop.

There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.

When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.