On Giving Quotes

Ultimately, I know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I'm trying to be a construction worker. I'm trying to make things. If people are not interested in that, fine. I just don't give a damn.

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

...the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen.

When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.

Between the monster and the fool there are many people who walk the middle path with a dog at their heels, their lives enriched by giving the dog a dog's life.

I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

It's always great when you're able to give fans what they expect and even a little more.

You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.

The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.

What I like about their films is that you actually feel the momentum of whatever they're shooting. So, if someone's falling out a window, it gives the opportunity to show what that might feel like.

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.

Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech.

Secret to what?" "Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence.

Kate Daniels, trained negotiator. When in possession of some valuable information, give it away to the first sexy man you see with no guarantee of return.

I’d give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was in the mood to be extremely virtuous.

The child must come first above all else. And pace yourself every day. There is quite a lot you will have to give up.

This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?

The more obstacles you encounter, the harder you must fight to meet your destiny. Never let adversity win. Never give up on yourself and the good you can bring to the world.

The praise helps on a deep level, which gives you the grounding that encourages you to trust yourself. On another level, each film is a risk, and the praise doesn't save you from that risk.

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.

Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.

It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.

In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

But I'm not afraid of the skeletons in Julie's closet. I look forward to meeting the rest of them, looking them hard in the eye, giving them firm, bone-crunching handshakes.

That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.

Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell a story.

You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

You can't give if your cup of inspiration isn't full.

Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. One must give everything.

I knit for Caps for Good - a charity that gives hats to Third World babies - while I watch movies with friends.

I walked out on American Gangster: this evil piece of dreck. Defenders of this junk say that these movies give Black actors jobs. So did "Birth of a Nation."

I find weddings really boring. They give speeches, your aunt kisses you on the cheek, and you're at a boring table. But it's different when it's your own.

What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!

My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it.

When you talk about a million bucks, if you think about it very carefully, it's not that much money, if you start to divide it. You have to figure out a philosophy as to whom you want to give it to.

It needs as much generosity to take as to give.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

Love is what you are, not what you give or get!

Oprah Winfrey gives you the stage? Shut your mouth. I said, 'I'm sorry for taking over your show.' She said, 'No, that's why we have you here.'

Life gives you an endless supply of do-overs.

I'm focusing on healing lives and teaching people that they can heal - giving them tools to heal.

When I do something I give everything, so it has to be something that I really want to go for.