The Whole Quotes

I like surprises. I like mystery. I’m not the kind of person who goes to the writer’s room and goes, I need to know the whole story so I can prepare. No, don’t tell me anything!

With every single role, you're not going to get a role unless you invest your whole heart into it.

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

My mom is the greatest mom in the whole wide world. She's done everything for me to make my dreams come true.

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole

I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.

The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band.

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.

I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life.

It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance, and in the book as a whole.

Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

Sometimes a story idea will come to me, and suddenly I've figured out the whole thing, and I feel like I'm collaborating with something other than myself.

The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.

So it was a whole experience revolving around "The Evolution of Dance," but wasn't just a company that put an ad on the video.

It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books.

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true of the community, and of the state.

I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

I've been acting my whole life, which people don't realize. I just haven't had the opportunities that I've had with my dancing.

But its not funny. Not to people who've been told they're losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything else.

I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person.

And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?

It may have taken nine years, and a whole lot of wrong turns along the way, but their story felt complete at last. Because, finally, she was his.

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

I think speaking Italian affects your whole body movement. It's so musical and animated and passionate.

I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It's a little bit surreal but kind of fun. You can play with the whole family.

Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.

My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.

I'm not someone who doesn't want to see the films, but I like to see them as an end product when the whole nuance of the character is put together.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

I'm still rough around the edges. I grew up with not a lot of money, and just played sports my whole life. So you develop the sports-mouth with all of your friends.

I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.

The whole point of being happy is not feeling like you have a job. I'm sure there are days where you're at your job and you're like, "Oh my god, this is hard."

I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.

...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world as a whole.

Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put it out there, and go for it.

It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

I believe the term you’re searching for is smoking jacket. I find, now that I have whole days of sunshine ahead of me, I’ve discovered there is more to life than formal haberdashery.