When you’re a movie star and you’re young, you are always playing someone who’s a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you. – Michael Caine
It’s enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work. – Kenneth Koch
The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it. – Mark Zuckerberg
Someone once pointed out that there are quite a lot of animals in my books, and I’m sure that is something to do with ‘The Wind in the Willows.’ I must have picked up a rather anthropomorphic view of them. – Justin Cartwright
If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn’t that show an incredible attention span? – Kevin Spacey
I didn’t have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show. – Lena Dunham
You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, ‘What do you do? What do you do for a job?’ and I say, ‘I make documentaries for the BBC,’ and you see their eyes just glaze over. – Louis Theroux
There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us. – Lily Koppel
Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give. – Melody Beattie
You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you’ll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn. – Lee Konitz
It’s very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you’ve never really met that person. – Liya Kebede
Sometimes on stage I prefer to feel more glamorous, so I’ll go all out when it’s a stage outfit like sparkly, colorful, and have a certain shape. If someone is watching it from far away they can maybe remember the shape or the color. – Lianne La Havas
When I went to Bosnia, I was there to tell someone else’s story and I was more methodical. – Joe Sacco
I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I’m rudderless. – Les Dawson
It’s difficult for me to imagine a circumstance in which you’re disguising your origins in which someone doesn’t get hurt. – Jess Row
I’m not someone who is going to give in to a lot of pressure. I’ve always understood that everything is not always going to be good. – Kevin Garnett
You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that. – Kevin Rollins
If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you’re doomed right off. – Jennifer O’Neill
Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not. – John Turturro
If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn’t he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he’s a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn’t as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old? – Marilyn Manson