We Can Quotes

Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

You can not make me pick between my roles! That is like making me pick between my children!

I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.

I got a bunch of people together to talk about doing a lot and decided that I really want to throw my hand in and do as much as I can.

I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

I like seeing how I can look in a photo.

I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

Almost everyone can do or be something for someone else in need.

Nothing the writer can do is ever enough.

Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough

When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.

I can't say I was a very successful sorority girl.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother "worked" at anything besides raising her children.

There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!

I can honestly tell you that without God I would not be who I am today. He has done such an amazing work in my life and I want everyone to have the same freedom.

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen

I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

I can be a little bit stubborn.

I think you know what? You've got to believe in yourself. You can do it.

I love the weather in L.A., and I can drive 20 minutes to the beach, hike minutes from my house or go snowboarding a couple hours away.

One of my fears is that I'm suddenly not going to be funny, but still think I am. That's like my nightmare that I can wake up in a cold sweat from.

I start thinking about the next movie before it's a success, so I can never have one moment of happiness or peace. I'm instantly thinking about the next one.

I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

I often say that ... I'm just involved in comedy, so I can be around it.

It would be so irresponsible not to speak up. I don't know what I would do in my home and in my life if I didn't rant a little bit and as thoughtfully as I can with some humor.

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

I need to find people who I respect so I can respect them, and they'll like being respected so they'll respect me, and that's like a marriage.

You hear people say: "One day, when I'm in a good position I can make my passion project." I've seen a lot of people get into that position and not make it.

You can do crap work in a big movie, and it does good things. You can do great work in a movie no one sees, it does nothing. That's the way it goes.

I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that.

I love you more than I can express, or can ever hope to express

I like to look glamorous sometimes, but its not the be all and end all. I can muck in as well.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

Do not tell me what to do and do not tell me what I can't do.

I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret."

Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!

First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

I want to be on that thing that people watch while they're eating a quick dinner before they go out, or to cheer them up. I want to make people laugh every day, if I can.

Wherever I am on location, I can usually, even in the weirdest little places, find a recording studio.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

I've never loved spending time on the machines at the gym. But I have discovered an exercise regimen I can dedicate myself to: yoga. It's changed my body.

I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past.

I'm never uncomfortable with anything I do. I never feel like I regret anything. I love music. All kinds of music. I'm a producer first. I feel like I can do anything and still be myself.