Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting ways to do something differently or how to improve. – Alan Zweibel
I’ve noticed it a lot. I’m not someone who revises. It’s always the first movement, it’s that. It’s an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won’t ever work. – Amelie Nothomb
Why make a movie about Ayrton Senna? Someone who drove around in circles at 200mph in a car that looked like a giant cigarette packet? Why would anyone who isn’t already a fan of Formula 1 care? – Asif Kapadia
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. – Arthur Schopenhauer
I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen. – Benedict Cumberbatch
Obviously it happens very fast on the field during the game; if anything, it’s more of a feel. You feel when the pocket is collapsing around you. You feel when someone is close to you. It is a split-second decision. – Brock Osweiler
What is social proof? Put simply, it’s the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It’s also known as informational social influence. – Aileen Lee
It’s just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision. – Andreas Katsulas
On the scale of someone who’s really laid-back about stuff and someone who worries a lot, I fall more towards the latter. – Anne Hathaway
I was so used to documentary filming, where it’s one take. You can’t really say, ‘Make that elephant charge again!’ And you talk to the camera. With movie filming, you’re talking to someone else. – Bindi Irwin
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. – Adlai E. Stevenson
Many times I’ve gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there. – Ben E. King
Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is. – Alex Kingston
I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say. – Ashwin Sanghi
If you’re going to have someone defend you, it doesn’t get any better than Kristen Stewart. – Alec Baldwin
I’m more offended when someone’s killed on television than when there’s something that’s sensuous or sexual. So what? – Calvin Klein
In the early days of love sometimes, you will report an ecstatic feeling you have met someone who seems to understand you without you needing to speak. – Alain de Botton
I look for someone who is honest, fun to be around, and doesn’t take himself too seriously. – Caroline Wozniacki
I’m not interested in how well someone can sing. It’s what you’re singing that interests me. – Bernard Sumner
It’s always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it’s written now. There’s been an enormous shift in how it’s done, but yet you can’t put your finger on someone who actually did it. – Clifford Geertz
I don’t try to be someone I’m not – I’ve always followed my heart and trance has always been my main sound. – Armin van Buuren
I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it’s very not chic. I don’t even like a flip-flop. I don’t like this noise. – Carine Roitfeld
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I’m the same guy I’ve always been. – Barry Zito