“It stung this new rejection, but it was also a relief to put an end to the ambiguity and incertitude. I had been deceiving myself the day I decided I could master the art of detachment, or maybe the mistake was to allow things to go on in that vein for as long as they had.” LongArtEndsMistakeMastersGoes OnDecidedRejectionReliefDeceivingVeinsDetachmentAmbiguity Author:Catherine Sanderson
“If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for animals. Even this we have failed to achieve.” IfsWorldWould BeSufferingSportsAnimalAchieveTomorrowDecidedKillingEntertainment Author:Andrew Linzey
“There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no one in this movie. I didn't go to film school. I'm like the person who should have never made this film. But I just decided to put one foot in front of the other. I was writing film articles for magazines at the time. I convinced an editor from one of the magazines that I was working for to give me a shot to do a piece on Roger. This was an excuse to go meet him.” GivingShouldWritingPersonsMadeDoneSchoolFilmPiecesFeetFrontsLateShotsConnectionsDecidedShould HaveGive MeExcuseConvincedMagazinesEditorsArticlesBrooklynRogerFilm School Author:Alex Stapleton
“I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.” FoundFunEasyDecidedMagazines Author:Ann Patchett
“As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for this other imagination of community - not the one showing up in the market. Nobody was tending to the way we're imaginatively connected to each other.” WayLiteratureCommunityImaginationPoetDecidedConnectedShowing Up Author:Robert Hass
“We'd decided to write a book about two friends. I gave her some coffee and then we sat there not knowing what to do. How do you start writing a book together? So Kate [DiCamillo] got up after about 10 minutes into this endeavor, and said, 'Well, that was fun,' and started to head out the door. I said, 'Wait, wait, wait, no no no,' because I'm a bit more patient.” WritingWellsSaidTwoBookTogetherFunBitsWaitingKnowingDoorsMinutesDecidedPatientCoffeeSatEndeavorNot KnowingWriting A BookKateTwo FriendsKnowing What To Do Author:Alison McGhee
“So we [with Kate DiCamillo] decided to give the friends an object and see what they did with it. The object was a sock and it went from there. Once we got going, once we got on a roll, it became very easy to work together and to figure out how to do it. We would meet for two-hour segments, usually from 10-12, two or three times a week. We met all one summer, and I think into the fall.” ThinkingGivingTwoTogetherFallThreeEasyHoursWeekFiguresObjectsMetsSummerDecidedWorking TogetherThree TimesSockKate Author:Alison McGhee
“The initiative of the Five Year Plan and of the accelerated collectivization belongs entirely to the Left Opposition, in uninterrupted and sharp struggles with the Stalinists. Not having the possibility of occupying myself here with long historical researches, I will limit myself to a single illustration. The Dnieprostroy is considered with right as the highest achievement of Soviet industrialization. Yet [Joseph] Stalin and his followers ([Clim] Voroshilov and others) a few months before the beginning of the work were decided opponents of the Dnieprostroy plan.” YearsLongLeftStruggleFivePlansPossibilityMonthsLimitsAchievementHighestResearchDecidedHistoricalOpponentsFive YearsOppositionFollowersSovietInitiativeIllustrationIndustrializationHistorical ResearchFive Year Plans Author:Leon Trotsky
“Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas.” ConversationDecidedEssaysDilemma Author:Phillip Lopate
“I did it [photojournalism] as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared about, and also to learn a lot by watching filmmakers I admired. In a sense, it was my film school. After doing it for a few years, I decided that the time had come to get it together and do some work of my own. So I stopped doing that and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money.” NeedsYearsWantedSchoolTogetherFilmOpportunityGivenMy OwnDirectDecidedFilmmakerLots Of MoneySpeculationScreenplaysFilm SchoolPhotojournalismGet It Together Author:Curtis Hanson
“When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a "wonder boy," in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.” FirstsHumansCharacterTermWonderBoysNovelDecidedLocationPittsburgh Author:Curtis Hanson
“Actors are pulled in so many different directions that unless you both are absolutely into it through thick and thin and completely sure about each other, it's just hard. I've decided I'll never date an actor again.” DifferentHardActorsDecidedThickDifferent DirectionsThick And ThinThrough Thick And Thin Author:Jessica Alba
“This is our right [to vote]. I urge people to come out. This hasn't - you know, the courts of law have refused to take this up in a just way. This needs to be decided in the court of public opinion.” PeopleKnowsWayNeedsLawOpinionDecidedVoteCourtUrgesPublic OpinionRight To Vote Author:Jill Stein
“In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able to create by painting whole rooms. There is a very limited number of colours but there are many variations. I decided to use the purest palette that I could.” LongWholeUseAbleRoomsNumbersPaintingLong TimeDecidedWork OutStudiosColourIntensityVariationPalette Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I decided I should use the most obvious colours - the basic colours with simple names: red, purple, yellow, pink. I don't distort the objects, I don't change the objects, I draw them exactly as they are. I do the opposite with the colours.” ShouldUseNamesSimpleObjectsDrawsRedDecidedOppositesObviousColourYellowPurpleDon't Change Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I was a Air Force kid. I got out of high school and I decided to join the military. I traveled and I was international before I got home. I did my thing in Japan, and I did it on big stages.” HomeBigsKidsSchoolForceAirStageMilitaryHigh SchoolDecidedInternationalJapanTraveledAir Force Author:Donnis
“If a girl gets assaulted, it's not because she was drunk. It's because somebody decided to assault her.” IfsGirlDecidedDrunkAssault Author:Jon Shenk
“We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of slavery. We discussed it for centuries in metaphysical, economic, biological, and philosophical terms; we listened to all the arguments pro and con, we read all the testimonies of slaves and witnesses, and we decided. Though this 'we" is not everybody on earth, or even most people, who've never thought about slavery much.” PeopleKindEarthTermMoralEconomicCenturyParticularTruth IsArgumentDecidedPhilosophicalSlaverySlaveWitnessInvestigationMetaphysicalTestimonyTheoreticalPros And Cons Author:Catherine Wilson
“In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into indie-rock and older music and decided I wanted to write my own stuff. I quit the band. Around 16 or 17, I started recording myself at home on keyboard and piano.” WritingHomeRunningWantedSchoolStuffMy OwnRocksStageBandHigh SchoolDecidedInspiredQuittingPianoPunkKeyboardsI QuitIndie Rock Author:Angel Olsen
“[Ted Cruz] is changed his mind, decided it`s in his best interest to be for [Donald] Trump, which what that says to me is Ted Cruz is a totally craven politician and will say anything to win, but isn`t even good at it.” MindWinningInterestChangedTrumpPoliticianDecidedSay AnythingCruz Author:Josh Barro
“There's a part of me with every book that thinks, What would it have meant for me tohave had this book when I was a kid? I decided to create a book for girls like me. The Littlest Bigfoot is about bullying and body image and girls who don't fit in. It's like training wheels for my adult books - like Sex and the City, but with 12-year-olds.” ThinkingYearsBookBodyKidsGirlSexCitiesFitTrainingAdultsDecidedLike MeWheelsBullyingBody ImageBigfootSex And The CityTraining Wheels Author:Jennifer Weiner
“I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.” MayTodaySpeakMoralDecidedTrendsRealismRealistNaturalist Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.” FeelsStillsLosesActingPaintingNeededDecidedPassionate Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“One of the reasons we moved to L.A. in the first place [was] so that it was no big deal that I was in show business. We decided if we move[d] to L.A., then everyone in one way or another was involved in it.” IfsWayFirstsReasonShowsBigsMovingDealsInvolvedDecidedMovedOne WayShow BusinessBig Deal Author:Eric Idle
“The incident itself happened in London, but because we were all based at the time in Los Angeles we moved it there. Certain details are almost exactly like the true experience, but we decided to make the film more of a thriller, in the hope that it would reach a bigger audience. That's why it's called "Selling Isobel" and not "Selling Frida." We didn't want to make a dark, depressing "movie-of-the-week."” WantFilmCertainDarkAudienceHappenedWeekDecidedBiggerMovedDetailsLondonSellingLos AngelesDepressingIncidentsThrillersFridaDark Depressing Author:Rudolf Buitendach
“I considered writing a book too, but I think people don't like to read, to be honest - they want to watch. People want to see crazy things, so we decided to make a film ["Selling Isobel"] instead.” PeopleThinkingWantWritingBookFilmWatchesCrazyHonestDecidedSellingBeing HonestWriting A BookCrazy Things Author:Frida Farrell
“I had gotten pregnant and decided make this - what people might have thought as a wrong - of course, my greatest gifts in life.” PeopleMightCoursesDecidedPregnantGreatest Gifts Author:Paula White
“I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.” WorldLongShowsWantedVoiceAirHavensLong TimeDecidedHarderCartoonWorld HistoryAnimated Author:Al Yankovic
“I had these couple of hippie guy friends who were super broke and living in the attic of somebody's house and they were like, "We don't have any food, man." And so I decided to go to the grocery store and steal chicken pot pie. And I stuck it inside my clothes. I took a couple frozen chicken pot pies and stuck them inside my pants, and I got caught walking out of the store. And they took me in the back room, and - luckily, I was 14, but I had a fake ID saying I was 18, so they didn't call my parents.” MenGuyHouseParentRoomsCoupleWalkingClothesDecidedCaughtStoresStuckStealingBrokeFakeChickensPotPantsPieFrozenHippieGroceriesGrocery StoresAtticsWalking OutGuy Friend Author:Cassandra Peterson
“I started playing music when I was 18. My heart was just broken so badly that I decided that I really wanted to start playing music. It felt like the only thing that I could do in response to that. And I've been playing ever since.” HeartWantedFeltBrokenMy HeartDecidedResponsePlaying Music Author:Lola Kirke
“As soon as I saw myself beginning to be way too comfortable on a film set or TV set, and not stimulated by it the way that I had been that had brought me to want to be there professionally and creatively, was the moment that I started getting really, really sad. I decided, "Okay, I just want to actually be here, how can I make this be interesting for me?"” WayWantMomentsFilmInterestingSawsTvsComfortableDecidedOkayFilm SetReally Sad Author:Lola Kirke
“I decided to go to the night, myself, and started to go out to the fields, where I would encounter things that I cannot see very well, that I cannot detect very well, and to put myself in a position where I'm going to be suspected as a being entering a territory of other beings, and I'm also going to suspect them. I have to be very alert, and they are going to be very alert - this kind of position I felt was very much what is going on in the world for me.” WorldWellsKindNightFeltFieldsPositionDecidedEncountersSuspectsTerritoryEntering Author:Michal Rovner
“Most banks - with Deutsche Bank at the top of the spectrum here - have decided that they can't make money lending to barrowers anymore, so they're going to the second business plan: They lend money to casino capitalists. That is, to people who want to gamble on derivatives.” PeopleWantPlansDecidedMaking MoneyCapitalistSpectrumGambleLendingCasinosDerivativesBusiness Plan Author:Michael Hudson
“I was given all of my dad's guitars when he passed, and they were being stored at the house. My mother decided they were hers again, and she took them all back, and now they're going up for auction.” MotherHouseGivenDadDecidedGuitarMy DadAuctions Author:Dweezil Zappa
“Concurrently, while I was in school, while I was winning awards for acting, I was winning awards for singing, in high school. One of the reasons why I decided to continue on with the acting was the opera world is fraught with a very long process, and I did love the acting, as well. The acting took off sooner, and then you get involved with that.” WorldWellsLongReasonSchoolWinningProcessActingInvolvedSingingHigh SchoolDecidedReason WhyAwardsOperaGet InvolvedWinning Awards Author:Robert Davi
“I came back and decided that I wanted to go to college for acting and got my family on board. My mom, who was a single mom, was a little reticent, but I think after that summer [in the Governor's School], she saw a shift in me and realized that it was something I wanted more than just a hobby.” ThinkingLittlesWantedSchoolActingSawsCollegeMomSummerMy FamilyDecidedMy MomBoardsGovernorsHobbiesSingle Mom Author:Zachary Quinto
“J.C. [Chandor] was the kind of energy we were looking for, so we decided to get behind it with all of our effort. That was the beginning of our relationship with first-time feature directors, and that's when it became really important to us, watching them thrive and grow in a creative environment in which you can do that was really key. Also his work checked all the boxes, because it was socially relevant and intellectually driven, and creatively exciting.” FirstsKindImportantEnergyGrowsCan DoEffortBehindsCreativeEnvironmentKeysDirectorsFirst TimeDecidedExcitingBoxesDrivenFeaturesThriveRelevantOur Relationship Author:Zachary Quinto
“In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book that was similar to mine. Happily, that author thanked his agent. I looked up the agent on the web and found out that he not only represented authors writing books similar to mine, but I knew some of his clients! So, I sent in the manuscript, and they decided to represent it.” WritingBookFoundMinesPagesDecidedAgentsClientsWriting A BookManuscriptsAcknowledgmentLiterary Agents Author:Debra Hamel
“When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."” WorldLastsSongRecordsRevolutionOrdinaryDecidedRadioAlbumsOrdinary World Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“I work with this wonderful five-piece band, The Tony Guerrero Quintet, along with Kate Flannery, who was Meredith the Drunk in The Office, and Tim Davis, who was the vocal arranger on Glee. The three of us sing, and the band is amazing. We've been working together for about two years. So, we decided to do a Christmas album in July.” YearsTwoTogetherThreeFivePiecesWonderfulBandOfficeDecidedAlbumsDrunkWorking TogetherTwo YearsVocalJulyKateGlee Author:Jane Lynch
“We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states.” ThinkingStatesTermPayDecidedStarting Author:Tim Wu
“The Facebook algorithm designers chose to let us see what our friends are talking about. They chose to show us, in some sense, more of the same. And that is the design decision that they could have decided differently. They could have said, "We're going to show you stuff that you've probably never seen before." I think they probably optimized their algorithm to make the most amount of money, and that probably meant showing people stuff that they already sort of agreed with, or were more likely to agree with.” PeopleThinkingSaidShowsStuffDecisionTalkingDesignAmountDecidedAgreeDesignerAlgorithms Author:Cathy O'Neil
“I was born in the south of France, I moved to Paris 30 years ago. I was running nightclubs and restaurants, so that was my business - working until six o'clock every morning, and then one day I noticed my wife. We opened the gallery together. She got pregnant, she was 22, I was 35, and it was time for me to change my life, and I decided to wake up early - wake up at the time I used to sleep.” YearsRunningTogetherUsedBornSleepMorningWifeOne DaySixYears AgoDecidedWake UpMovedSouthMy WifeFranceClockParisRestaurantsPregnantEvery MorningGalleryUp EarlyChanging My LifeNightclubs Author:Patrick Seguin
“What kind of motivated me to join the Black Panther Party was that I, along with some of the comrades that I was working with in New York, had heard about the Black Panther Party, and they were doing things that we wanted to do in New York, and we thought that would be a better vehicle than the vehicle that we had going on in New York. They were better organized, and they already had their Ten-Point Platform and Program, and people already heard about them. So we decided that we would join the party, when given a chance.” PeopleKindWould BeWantedGivenBlackChancePartyHeardNew YorkTenProgramDecidedOrganizedMotivatedVehiclePlatformsComradePanthersGiven A ChanceBlack PantherBlack Panther Party Author:Sekou Odinga
“I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in English].” IfsWritingTryingFiveDegreesDecidedNot SureForty Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“[My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming equipment. As soon as he bought that and decided to rent some land, because it was always better if you rent the land, but as soon as he got the mules and wagons and everything, somebody went to our trough - a white man who didn't live very far from us - and he fed the mules Paris Green, put it in their food and it killed the mules and our cows.” IfsMenEnoughFatherWhiteLandDecidedGreenParisFedsCowsEquipmentWhite ManFarmingWagonsMulesTractorsTrough Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“I decided few years ago to leave the bar to pursue a career in politics because I wanted to make a contribution in Parliament.” YearsWantedCareersYears AgoDecidedBarsPursueContributionParliament Author:George Brandis
“Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.” FirstsPoetDecidedMereLike MeIdiotPensUnnecessaryRhymeTrashRhymingQuaintUncool Author:Gene Weingarten
“I decided that I'm not going to pound my fist anymore at those folks and at laws that I can't change.” I CanLawDecidedFolksPoundsFistsCan't Change Author:Larry Gatlin
“I got a bunch of people together to talk about doing a lot and decided that I really want to throw my hand in and do as much as I can.” PeopleWantI CanHandsTogetherDecidedBunch Author:Joss Whedon