We Can Quotes

I wonder if I shall ever see her again, and I realize that I scarcely care. I can feel the sheets beneath me, and the cold air on my chest. I feel fine. I feel absolutely fine. I feel nothing at all.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.

I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.

We're antithetical. You use your mind one way; I use mine another. I recognize what you're doing, but I can't imagine it.

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

This time [2016] is very similar to the '60s, as far as I can tell.

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

I've learned more, and I understand the process a bit better now. I can try to see how long I want to take in each aspect of the filmmaking process, and then arrive at around the two-year end mark.

There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

I can't understand marketing. I think it's because I never looked at what I do as a job. I've rebelled against that and I will continue to.

There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like.

If you want proof that Catfish was real, just put me in an audition room and watch me fall apart. I can't pretend. I'm really bad at it. That's partly what makes me good at hosting a reality show.

It doesn’t matter what I do. People need to hear what I have to say. There’s no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn’t matter what I live.

I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined, but it didn't count because if it counted I'd still be a candidate; since I can't be a candidate that can't count.

If I can get you to a point where you can lead a full life, sustain a job, earn money for your family - you can be completely engaged as a citizen.

If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile.

There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.

As long as the acting is good, I can appreciate it.

If you leave school at 16 then, in all probability, there is a machine that can do what you can do better and cheaper. And Trump can't do anything to change that.

In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.

I can't live my life happily knowing you're with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it's too beautiful to just throw it away.

Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.

I can’t make this decision for you…this one’s yours. I want you to know, though, that I love you. And I always will. I know that doesn’t help, but it’s all I can do.

As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know?

In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased.

The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise.

Thankfully, I'm not put in a position where I'm made to feel like I can't live my life.

You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.

I really do just try to tune as much out as I can and make things that I think just sound good to me.

In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.

Clearly, everybody knows I can rap; I can freestyle all day.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.

I don't describe myself as a sociable person now. I can be quite... you know... grumpy? Is that a word? I guess I can be a bit grumpy.

I like to go home early, that's my thing. My idea of a pub crawl lasts from midday until 5 P.M., then I can go home, play with my kid, have tea and go to bed.

My scripts are always heavily noted. If I can take a director to one side and say, "Do you mind if we try this?," a few days before, that's usually a better way of doing it then on the day.

Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.

I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can't get the map to get off my page, don't want people to know where I live. It is possible to carve out a space that's your own.

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.