I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing. – Zack Snyder
I think you have a responsibility to the people you’re making movies with, and I take that very seriously. I don’t want to let up and I don’t want to let down. – Scott Rudin
In Cape Town, there’s a drive from Cape Point to Camps Bay where the road is hewn out of the cliffs. It’s just stunning, particularly if you do it as the sun is going down. – Sean Pertwee
Watching tape is key. I basically watch every game. It’s the only way to break down your opponents. – Tony Parker
Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings. – Vinessa Shaw
We’re the guys who, if someone says you really shouldn’t do an episode making fun of Scientologists, we say, ‘Whatever.’ Someone says, ‘They might come try to burn your house down,’ we say, ‘We’ll just get another one.’ – Trey Parker
If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list – any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board. – Timothy Olyphant
I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men. – Sharon Horgan
What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down. – William Shatner
My thinking musically has always been more advanced – it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now. – Van Morrison
I self-deprecate. When I first got here two years ago, I didn’t realise that in America you can’t go into the room and put yourself down. – Sophie Winkleman
It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they’re driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they’d sound ludicrous! – Terry Goodkind
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. – Victor Hugo
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn’t a song that I need to sing. – Valerie June
Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon. – Terry Pratchett
Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. – Sherry Argov
I don’t like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there’s something that makes it happen naturally. I don’t like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect. – Ziggy Marley
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied? – Virginia Woolf
No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back. – Sheryl Swoopes
I want the little lassies who are thinking of going to a nightclub in Cardiff to stop to see what that guy’s screaming for, or Grandma to put her knitting down to see why that guy’s chatting about Alexander the Great. I’m after pulling in, whether it’s in Manila, Beijing or whatever, the biggest possible audience. – Sid Waddell
I usually sit down at 8 A.M. and work through to 7 P.M., with breaks that total no more than an hour and a half. – Stephanie Laurens
Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets. – William Laud
I’ve never been in a band where someone goes, ‘Ah, I’ve got the perfect name! And it’s because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down…’ It’s always a bunch of guys sitting around going, ‘How about Rotten Chipmunks?’ – Wes Borland
I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off. – Terry Pratchett
If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the ‘moment of inertia’ – the resistance to angular motion – drops dramatically. – Vijay Kumar
When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you’ve got to slow down a bit. – Ted Turner
