Stuff Quotes

I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

I love doing the action stuff. It's soooo much fun!

The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.

I think Donald Trump is the best person for the job. It comes back to redemption campaign rhetoric. They all say that stuff.[Barack] Obama and [Hillary] Clinton said that about each other.

I did not grow up watching much TV and film. I had a very, very, very, very, very, very church family, and a lot of, like, secular stuff was not around my house.

You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!

I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

You'd think when you saw my old MTV stuff that I was always drunk and high and all that stuff. I wasn't.

You never think of films being really creepy that you're in because you just remember the funny stuff.

Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.

When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.

Thankfully, readers send a lot of stuff. They see stories in their local newspaper. Or friends of mine email me, what they heard or saw. ... I'm very plugged in

I find stuff written about me is in stark contrast to who I am. But I can sleep well at night knowing that I did my best - I'm looking forward to my next chapter, whatever that is.

Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s so lucky.

I bought stuff at 3.5 cents once and I thought it can’t go down to zero. It can.

Dad loves my stuff. No matter how many times my voice cracks or I miss a tap, he doesn't care. He's like some businessman making it to his kid's recital.

To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.

Yeah, in the digital world, it is so much easier to put stuff out without a great deal of paraphernalia and fanfare.

The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn't entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.

I agonize over things like this - the order of things, section titles, all this architectural sort of stuff. Takes me years to figure out.

I love sight gags and broad stuff, but you can get to such a subtle degree, especially with CG animation.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

I rarely do autograph shows. Maybe two or three a year. Just to keep my price up. Also I've got too much other stuff to do. I have to teach Renaissance art.

I very rarely listen to the in-flight stuff.

For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right.

There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

There's so much visible stuff around now, we're tempted to forget that it's usually the invisible that matters most.

The paparazzi stuff is a little weird. I used to leave the house in my pajamas. I can't do that anymore, but I'm not complaining!

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

What Rare [albom] allows me to do is gonna show people other things that I'm capable of 'cause they really haven't heard a lot of things outside of the rap stuff that I do.

I get to kind of pretend I'm going to play baseball. I get to work out and do all the stuff that was part of baseball. I just don't get to play.

I've quit drugs and drinking and been into healthy stuff like yoga.

I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.

It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.

I was just this video-store guy and now I was actually making movies and stuff.

I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.

I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.

Work helps. So does exercise. Stuff that numbs you, keeps you from thinking too much.

But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.

I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.