“You ever go to a restaurant and watch how many families and couples actually talk? No one talks anymore, everybody is in their cellphone, its a distraction.” CoupleDistraction Author:Timothy Bradley
“When I was a kid my father would read Neil Simon plays with me when I was going to bed, as bedtime stories. All of these old plays like The Odd Couple and Lost in Yonkers - funny but corny plays about Jewish New Yorkers in the mid-20th century.” KidsFatherCoupleOdd20th CenturyCornyBedtimeBedtime Stories Author:Zach Woods
“I would love to do a drama. I did a couple of episodes of The Good Wife, which is more of a drama. I really liked that; I thought it was interesting. A lot of my favorite comedies play out as dramas.” InterestingComedyWifeCoupleDramaMy FavoriteGood Wife Author:Zach Woods
“When John Travolta had the opportunity to do The Boy In The Plastic Bubble, he brought me and a couple other people from the movie to just be the students and have some parts, because he wanted to help us out. I thought that was really sweet.” PeopleHelpingOpportunityBoysStudentsSweetCoupleBubbles Author:P. J. Soles
“I was in a band and it wasn't working out the way I wanted. Then somehow, little by little, I started doing a couple comedy things. All of a sudden I was being asked to do more and more comedy things. There was this message from the world saying, "Maybe you should go this direction."” WorldComedyCoupleWork Out Author:Fred Armisen
“What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.” HomeSeemsGrowsTreeCoupleManageClosetsPremisesNew YorkersCockroachesNew Home Author:Russell Baker
“I think people go to the movies to be entertained, to have an experience, to disappear from their own reality for a couple of hours. If the film truly succeeds in everything the filmmaker sets out for it to be, then it's elevated to art. It's elevated to something special, because it gives people a visceral feeling of something they're experiencing as a collective group. You feel something and that's what turns it into what you may call art.” PeopleThinkingGivingArtFeelingsRealityFilmHoursSpecialCoupleSucceedDisappearFilmmaker Author:Antoine Fuqua
“I've learned after doing a couple records that if it feels good and it's easy, then that's usually a good sign. And that feeling sorta went with us to Nashville - everything was just natural.” FeelingsEasyNaturalCoupleFeel Good Author:Anna Ternheim
“I'm talking about the '60s really. People go interview these guys and ask them, "Do you still think music can change the world?" I mean, go talk to Graham Nash about that. What's he going to tell you? Ask David Crosby. These guys are still out there. They're playing their hits at Staples Center and those are really valuable songs. I'm talking about a couple of the guys who got knee-deep into really believing music had a great service beyond radio. I believe it did. And I think a lot of those songs are great.” PeopleThinkingWorldBelieveMeanGuySongI BelieveCoupleValuableChanging The WorldGreat Service Author:Jakob Dylan
“Once I heard about the electronic voting machines, and how they weren't gonna be audited, and no one would be able to go in and verify what the votes were. And then the exit poll thing - wasn't that kind of weird? How the exit polls didn't match up to the voting... I feel like, you know, they dropped a couple lines of code in here and there, and swung a couple states in their direction.” KindLike YouCoupleVoteCodeVotingVerify Author:Aaron McGruder
“I think a very good movie director makes films to entertain people, but not to be considered like they were Cervantes, you know? One of the biggest problems now, with all the festivals and everything, is a confusion between the quality and the beauty and the highness of things. A film is a film. It's something to entertain you a couple hours. Not to be considered as if it were Shakespeare.” PeopleThinkingProblemFilmHoursQualityCoupleVery GoodConfusionGood Movie Author:Jesus Franco
“I'd much rather speak up and stand behind something I believe in than worry about pissing off a couple hundred people. And if they're more pissed off than if I never said anything, well, sorry but not sorry.” PeopleBelieveSpeakI BelieveWorryCoupleSorryNot Sorry Author:Ed Droste
“I believe that beyond the arena of art, the world would be a much better place if centered around a feminine perspective. The world has been really messed up by greedy white men who only work towards an agenda of personal wealth and power. It is this patriarchy of the past couple thousand years that causes so much strife. If the world was female-centered and if the dominant spirituality was based on the feminine and the earth, then human beings would know much more joy, peace, and harmony.” MenWorldBelieveArtEarthPastJoySpiritualityI BelieveWealthPerspectiveCoupleHarmonyFemininePatriarchyGreedyPeace And Harmony Author:Mark Ryden
“The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn't been making money. Labels are signing bands they trust as artistic entities, instead of cash cows. They're signing bands because they believe that the bands have tastes beyond anything they could concoct themselves.” BelieveCoupleArtisticMaking MoneyMusic Industry Author:Caroline Polachek
“The difference of human being behind the guy on the page is in writing, I'm no longer conscious of personal repercussions because for that moment they don't exist. At times, I tell myself, Well, I can always go back and change that or take it out, and I find out that I rarely do. Couple little things here and there: Do unto others. Be a good scout. With all the ironies that entails, I go by that. That's a good way to live.” WritingMomentsGuyCoupleConsciousIronyLittle Things Author:Nick Tosches
“People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't think.” PeopleThinkingCouple Author:Nick Tosches
“What's interesting is, most of the people who are fans of the The Wire who black people or cops... most of the people in the industry are the crew: writers, actors and directors. And so they understand what it is that we do, so they think, "Wow, what a incredible group of amazing actors." It's funny, I think there are a couple of reasons why we have never gotten any nomination for anything except for writing.” PeopleThinkingWritingReasonBlackInterestingCoupleIncrediblesBlack PeopleCopWire Author:Lance Reddick
“Sweden is a small country. All cities seem small after a while. I was hanging out at a rehearsal hall in Williamsburg and I don't know how many people I ran into just being there for a couple days. Music makes all cities smaller.” PeopleCountryCoupleRanHanging OutBeing There Author:Anna Ternheim
“You go back to the Baldur's Gate days, we literally had 32-pixel characters strutting across the screen, and we'd have a couple lines of voice and a lot of text. On one hand, it's a reflection of the evolution of the technology. On the other hand, though, I think it's a reflection of our aspirations. We've always felt that the medium can get more and more cinematic, and I think when it follows the convention of Mass Effect 2 film, it grows more and more compelling. There's a hundred years of knowledge and learning in that space that we can then apply.” ThinkingCharacterFilmTechnologyEvolutionCoupleReflectionAspirationGates Author:Greg Zeschuk
“Let's talk about that for a moment, about the couple that Yves Saint Laurent and I were. Like all couples we went through "storms," as the Jacques Brel song says. But if there's one area where we never had the slightest disagreement, it was art. Never. Not once. Not about painting, not about opera, not about theater. We were always in complete communion. Of course, that's how all of the collection came into being.” ArtMomentsSongPaintingCoupleSaintStormCommunionDisagreement Author:Pierre Berge
“That's happened a couple times: Billy Joel. It was just, "You sound like Billy Joel." And I get really upset about that. No offense to that guy, but it's not for me.” GuyCoupleUpsetOffenseGet Real Author:Taylor Goldsmith
“With men, you need to anticipate all your ideas at least one or two months before the next women's collection, so you need to create a feeling that links with what will happen a few months later. To me, a man and a woman are really a couple. They live together. They grew up in Italy together. So, not just in the stores or the campaigns, but also in real life, it's very important for me to create a connection between them.” MenImportantRealFeelingsTogetherCoupleReal Life Author:Frida Giannini
“I have to tell you, a few people had very controversial feelings about what I was doing with Gucci at the beginning, and now, after a couple of years, they are changing their minds. I want to give journalists the time and space to know me and what I'm doing better. But it's not a priority for me. At the end of the day, I am not an artist; I am not doing a performance; I'm doing things that need to be sold. And I know my job.” PeopleGivingMindFeelingsArtistCouplePrioritiesJournalistKnow MeTime And SpaceControversialGucci Author:Frida Giannini
“There are a couple of writers I admired who were very good at giving the character's emotion without stating what that emotion was. Not saying "He was feeling tense," instead saying, "His hand squeezed harder on the chair arm," as if staying outside the guy. I wanted to try doing that. I wanted to have a really emotional story in which the characters' emotions are never straight - out told to you, but you get it.” GivingTryingFeelingsGuyEmotionEmotionalCoupleVery Good Author:Donald E. Westlake
“I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.” WellsChurchCoupleOne DayJokesDecidedGood ThingsMinistersDivorcedBanned Author:Sam Kinison
“I think a lot of times photo sessions is just a test, maybe, for models. Sometimes it's for money. I'm going to shoot a girl in a couple weeks in Italy who has been writing me for a couple years. She sends photos all the time and it's kind of like a game. A lot of times people write and then they just want to see if I'm interested. If I say I am, I never hear from them again.” PeopleThinkingWritingKindSometimesGirlWeekCouple Author:Richard Kern
“We know from past history that when young people vote for one party a couple of times, they tend to vote for that party during their adult lifetimes in disproportionate numbers.” PeoplePastPartyCoupleVoteLifetime Author:David Gergen
“The point of view foreigners will have of the film The Conquest isn't the same as the French public. What will interest American and international audiences is the love story between Nicolas and Cecelia that's a metaphor of today's occidental couple, namely the women in the shadows who carry their husbands into the spotlight, but the man is so absorbed with work so the woman leaves him for another man.” MenFilmInterestAudienceHe ManCoupleHusbandShadowMetaphorPoint Of ViewLove StoryConquest Author:Xavier Durringer
“We couldn't have known - who could've predicted what happened in American politics in the 2016? The rise of racism again, or the peeling back of the onion and seeing racism again, was a bit of a surprise in the last couple years.” CoupleRacismSurprise Author:George Pelecanos
“When we were kids coming up, if you stole your dad's Playboy magazine, that was about as much of an education as you were gonna get. You finish looking at the centrefold and you read 'The Playboy Adviser' that told you about what stereo to buy and something about sex which you didn't quite understand, and you were still just as confused. Now if you're ten the entire world of human sexuality, and a very misogynistic version of that, is available to you on a laptop after a couple of key strokes. I think it's changed the vernacular in the way men address women.” ThinkingMenWorldKidsChangedCoupleSexualityConfusedPlayboyYour Dad Author:David Simon
“Neither of youIn the couple have to change in order to be with the other. Whether that's having sex with other people or monogamy. The main thing is not having to reconcile your different lives like cutting your hair, changing the way you dress, who you are. The marriage with the guy I was sleeping with was asking me to be someone who wasn't me.” PeopleDifferentGuySleepCuttingCoupleWho You AreReconcileMonogamy Author:Liza Monroy
“The good news is that the international coalition, in which our military contributes, has done a lot to reduce the ground space, the territory in Iraq, Syria that ISIL once occupied a couple years ago. That's a good thing. And a lot of that, frankly, has occurred in Trump administration, so I'll give them credit for that.” GivingDoneMilitaryCoupleGood ThingsSyria Author:Jeh Johnson
“I think we're at a moment in history where all the rules are out the window; it's not about "Here's a single, and then let it build for a couple of months and then put out an album." Doing a common project Supa Dups we're having fun thinking about how we can improvise and make it fun for people to be fans of the music.” PeopleThinkingMomentsFunCommonCoupleWindowHaving Fun Author:D.A. Wallach
“I try to think of acting in terms of thinking and doing. People think of it as, "Oh, let's get inside this guy." They think that acting is being, or feeling, or emoting. It's as much doing. One of the first things you do as an acting student is ask, "Can you say words and do a task at the same time, like sweep a floor?" You get to watch the human condition, and there's always a "doing" aspect of it. This couple, they're carrying backpacks, where are they going? Students? Or are they carrying instruments? It stimulates the imagination. So acting is doing ... and I forget how we got off on that.” PeopleThinkingTryingFeelingsGuyTermImaginationForgetActingStudentsCoupleHuman Condition Author:Tobin Bell
“Me and my bandmates grew up with the internet music scene. So we're well versed in how to interact with the online fan base. Obviously MySpace several years back was the main mode of transportation. I found out about so many great bands through the Myspace band of the week feature, it was my goal to be on there. But it's changed a lot. We have a couple social media people helping us out, but for the most part we always oversee our Twitter. We look at a lot of our Facebook stuff. We try and keep in touch with as many people as possible.” PeopleTryingHelpingGoalWeekChangedCoupleInternetSceneSocial MediaOnlineTransportation Author:Sameer Gadhia
“I think being a DJ is that thing of learning what makes a crowd move. As a DJ, you're constantly learning. It's like chess or something. After a couple of years, you think you're good, then you see a real DJ that's been doing it for 20 years and they just blow you away. I think that's one of the things I like about DJing: you can get better and better and better.” ThinkingRealMovingCoupleBlowChessGet Better Author:Alexis Taylor
“I think I have always sort of cultivated a flowery writing style. I've always sort of over - written in every genre that I've attempted. I went to college and took a couple of writing classes and I remember my teachers were always incredibly encouraging. But it was inevitable to get the criticism: "Take it down a notch!" But the nice thing about screenwriting is that you don't really have to.” ThinkingWritingRememberTeacherNiceStyleCollegeCoupleCriticismInevitableScreenwritingWriting Style Author:Diablo Cody
“Hollywood overstates both the romance of marriage and the prevalence of divorce. Celebrities have divorce rates that are atypical and higher than most couples. I suspect that in celebrity marriages, there are huge egos on both sides and they do seem to encourage unrealistic expectations about falling in love. The problem with our romantic culture is that you can love someone you don't respect and the marriage can run out of gas with that formula. Respect is essential - not just respecting your partner but being sure your partner equally respects you.” ProblemRunningRomanceFallCultureCoupleEgoExpectationsFalling In LoveRateDivorceGas Author:Stephanie Coontz
“Every political race I've started, I've entered as an underdog and a long shot. This is certainly no exception. But I happen to be the best person for this job. Democrats need someone who can win. And there are two strategies for winning: You can energize the base, which is the strategy the party has used in the last couple of elections...unfortunately without success.Or you can energize and expand the base and bring the campaign to states where we've not had much success particularly in the heartland.” HeartLongPoliticalWinningPartyCoupleElectionStrategyDemocratBeing The BestExceptionUnderdog Author:Tom Vilsack
“Actors always direct themselves. A good actor shows up onset ready, especially in television, and you've done your homework and you know your character. The director may have some variation on what you're thinking or they may have a different interpretation of the scene. So you come prepared to shoot and you've given yourself notes. In television, it may be the first time you're meeting this director and you've been living in this character's skin for a couple of years. It's always great to have fresh perspective and fresh insight, but no one knows your character better than you do.” ThinkingDifferentDoneCharacterPerspectiveCoupleSceneFirst TimeDirectSkinsMeetingsInsightHomework Author:Noah Emmerich
“Nothing's been changed overnight. It's like watching your cat grow: you see it every day, so you don't really see it change, you wake up one day and it's a bloody great thing. Your friends come round who you haven't seen for a couple months and they're like, "Oh my god, your cat's grown so much again." And I'm like, "Has it?" But when you're living it... I just find that my life has subtly changed bit by bit, so I don't ever really notice it too much.” ChangedCoupleOne DayCatWake UpGreat ThingsBloody Author:Douglas Booth
“I think first huge gay following started out with our keyboard player Jesper Anderberg. When he joined the band we were still in high school, and he was two years younger than us. He has a really boyish look, so all the gay guys fell in love with him straight away. We have a couple of cute guys in the band, and we play that kind of music that will go in a club. And I was dating a girl for a while - that might have something to do with it.” ThinkingKindSchoolGuyGirlPlayerCoupleGayHigh SchoolDatingCute Author:Maja Ivarsson
“I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance. I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it. I can see that without being excited mathematics can look pointless and cold. The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.” ThinkingGivingBelieveRealSchoolChanceStudentsColdCoupleMathematicsPatientExcitedMathNot InterestedMathematicianPointlessMiddle School Author:Maryam Mirzakhani
“The only lie I really remember from my adolescence was when I was in sixth grade and I was dropped off with a couple of friends at the movie theater to go see a movie, I can't remember which one it was, and we went to go see this movie instead that was rated R. That was sort of a defining moment, that was probably the first time I had ever lied to my parents about something.” MomentsRememberLyingParentCoupleFirst TimeAdolescenceLiedMovie Theater Author:Dan Byrd
“I didn't like my mouth because I always felt like it was a sausage for a bottom lip, and I have an overbite, so I can't exactly close my mouth. It's really, really hard! But now I like it because it's kind of sultry, and it's my mouth. I should say I don't consider my bottom lip a sausage lip now - I like it, but I guess I grew into it. I definitely saved a couple hundred bucks instead of getting fillers.” KindCoupleBottom Author:Ayesha Curry
“I have never written a novel that volleys back and forth between a couple of different first person perspectives. It's definitely a challenge because I had to think about who knows what, when do they know it, when are they sharing what they know or what they think they know, how the reader's perspective affects things. Telling the story in that way is challenging. It does require a lot of revision.” ThinkingDifferentChallengesNovelPerspectiveCouple Author:Jesmyn Ward
“I think going away and disappearing for a couple of years - or a few years, or whatever - definitely changed the way I look at songwriting. It made me feel more free, it made me feel more like I could just write what I wanted to write about. I wanted to write more observational songs.” ThinkingWritingSongChangedCoupleDisappearGoing AwaySongwriting Author:Elly Jackson
“I'm just happy that a couple folks still know my name, and that I'm still able to sell out venues when I perform live.” Couple Author:Wayne Brady
“We're dependent on buying overseas productions and television shows. A lot of the time they come in packages, I think. You take the hit show and you take a couple of other unloved children that they want to get rid of along with the hit show.” ThinkingChildrenCoupleUnloved Author:Antony Starr
“The American accent is a little bit tricky. We grew up with American TV shows, so we've had a lot of exposure to it and that helps, but there's little nuances and little details. Sometimes there'll be just a phrase or couple words that are really difficult to get your mouth around. At the end of every season we go over and revoice anything that has sound issues, including my kiwi accent coming out.” SometimesHelpingDifficultCoupleTricky Author:Antony Starr