“There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation, the thing starts to feel like it's a character developing through the dialogue. A lot of character traits do come from writing dialogue, but I have to be ready to do it.” FeelsWritingI CanCharacterReadyDialogueDevelopingPreparationTraitsCharacter TraitWriting Dialogue Author:Charlie Kaufman
“One of the things I love about summer is that you can wear a bikini top and put something over it and it kind of just always looks a little beach-ready, which I think is very fun.” ThinkingLooksKindLittlesFunReadySummerBeachOver ItThings I LoveBikinis Author:Debby Ryan
“I enjoyed Ready For This, which was created by the people behind Dance Academy and Redfern Now, and really it's what you'd get if you crossed Redfern Now with Dance Academy” PeopleIfsBehindsReadyEnjoyedAcademy Author:Justine Larbalestier
“In the long-run I think we lost some of our audience because of noise. I don't think people were ready for it, OK? And after we did it nothing really happened, but then 4-5 years later when there was a rap-rock emergence, we were already over it. We could have made Bring the Noise part 2, Bring the Noise part 3 - but like I said we're a METAL band, we didn't want to do that.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsLongMadeSaidRunningLostAudienceHappenedRocksReadyBandRapNoiseOver ItMetalsLong RunsEmergenceMetal Band Author:Charlie Benante
“When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you had to work 12 to 16 hours a day, knowing you had to be prepared, knowing you had to be ready, and it's very interesting because if you're an artist and you're creating, you can work very, very long hours but as you're putting out that love of creation, it's almost like you're charged by it, you're charged by the process of it.” IfsLongArtistStrongProcessHoursInterestingActingKnowingCreationReadyLike YouDisciplineCreatingPreparedBe PreparedVery InterestingLong Hours Author:Jaime King
“I’m an actor who’s accustomed to bringing a lot of stuff to the table, and you have to be ready because some of them will be accepted and some of them will be rejected. Then you need a generous, free, fearless, loving director like Tarantino to allow you to take those risks.” NeedsActorsStuffRiskReadyDirectorsTablesAcceptedFearlessGenerousRejectedAccustomedTarantino Author:Demian Bichir
“I think these nine months of pregnancy are a gift nature gives you to get you ready to be a mother. You couldn't be a mother without thinking about it. You want to be ready. Of course that influences you, but in a way I can't really explain.” ThinkingWayWantGivingI CanMotherCoursesInfluenceReadyMonthsNinePregnancyNine Months Author:Juana Molina
“I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.” BelieveReadyGood Things Author:Kevin Brockmeier
“In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation and trivialization to feel engaged, connected, purposeful, ready to give, to engage, to care, to learn.” PeopleGivingFeelsCareReadyProfoundConnectedEngagedIsolationGood TimesAftermathEnnui Author:Rebecca Solnit
“When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in a plot corner.” WritingFirstsRealizingNovelReadyCornersPlotHalfwayOutlines Author:Janet Evanovich
“It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took so long and took so much out of me, that when I finished it, I was like, Oh my gosh, I feel like I've poured everything from myself into this, and then I'd get depressed for a week. And then once I was ready to write a new story, I would want to write about something that was completely different, so I would search for a totally different character with a different set of circumstances.” KnowsWantFeelsWritingLongBookDifferentCharacterStoriesWeekReadyCircumstancesLong TimeFinishedWriting A BookDifferent CharactersWriting StoriesOh My Gosh Author:Molly Antopol
“The stuff that I propose are things that I'm ready to govern with. They're not tools to get elected. They are programs and plans to do when you get elected.” StuffPlansReadyProgramToolsPropose Author:John Kasich
“When you are in the American Idol bubble, a lot of contestants want to go as far as they can and wish to be on point with ready-to-go songs.” WantSongWishReadyIdolsBubblesAmerican IdolContestants Author:Jessica Sanchez
“I'm scared. I'm excited. I'm ready for whatever happens but I think that fame is what comes along with the territory when you open yourself up and become this story, this book for anyone to read.” ThinkingBookStoriesHappensReadyFameScaredExcitedTerritoryWhatever Happens Author:Katy Perry
“Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next record they would be ready and receptive.” IdeasWould BeNextAudienceRecordsReadyEarsTrainMusicalConcertsIntroducingNext TimeReceptiveLive Concerts Author:Gail Zappa
“I like your own shows because you can have a bit more fun and extend your set, you can go a bit over if you want because it's your show. Whereas at festivals it's very strict, like if you go like two minutes over they get ready to pull the plug kind-of-thing. They're both good and bad.” IfsWantKindTwoShowsFunBitsMinutesReadyLike YouStrictFestivalsGood And BadPlugsI Like You Author:Flume
“I tell my students all the time is, for better or worse, no publisher is going to come wrench your story out of your hands before you're ready to let it go. You will have time to take stuff out. You don't have to show it to anybody. That's what I did.” StoriesShowsHandsStuffStudentsReadyPublishersLet It GoWrenches Author:Melissa Febos
“Sometimes offering support and making yourself available when the child or adolescent is ready to talk can be the most helpful you can be.” ChildrenSometimesSupportReadyAvailableHelpfulOffering Author:Timothy Carey
“When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At Stony Brook. You had something to do with some state university school?” ThinkingLongStatesPhilosophySchoolFourReadyMajorsLong TimeUniversalUniversityEightyLong Time AgoSystematicBrooks Author:Richard Meltzer
“My first book published in France was translated and titled Exercices d'Attente in 1972. It was a collection of short works written and published in Romania. In 1973 I was ready to publish the novel Arpièges, which I had started writing in Romanian and of which I had published some fragments under the title Vain Art of the Fugue. Some years later, I finished Necessary Marriage.” WritingYearsFirstsArtBookNovelWrittenReadyFinishedFranceVainTitlesCollectionsFragmentsPublishRomaniaFugue Author:Dumitru Tepeneag
“Jeb Bush has being slammed by his own party for a very messy response to questions about his brother's war in Iraq. He should have been ready for this one.” ShouldHas BeensWarPartyReadyBrotherShould HaveResponseIraqMessyShould Have Been Author:Chris Matthews
“If and when you do decide to share your experience with your husband, it should be because you feel ready to do so, not for any other reason.” IfsFeelsShouldReasonShareReadyHusbandYour HusbandIfs And Author:Mallory Ortberg
“I was the last one of nine kids - eight girls and me last - and my sisters were going out. They were teenagers. And as they were getting ready, I would sit on the bathtub and watch them put on makeup and transform themselves - you know, putting on clothes and giggling about the boys they were going to meet and everything. So for me, that was an amazing thing - the fact of transforming themselves.” KnowsFactsKidsLastsGirlBoysWatchesReadyClothesEightNineTeenagerMakeupMy SisterGoing OutTransformingAmazing ThingsBathtubs Author:Riccardo Tisci
“As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive.” DifferentHardReadySceneComputerChaptersStunned Author:Alexander Chee
“Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the world and it's sad. I'm happy with the way the novel came out but all the characters' ending really saddened me.” WorldWayWritingChildrenCharacterNovelReadySafeOur ChildrenYour ChildrenSaddenedReally Sad Author:Yiyun Li
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.” MenWritingReadingTeacherMilitaryReadyLiteracyConferencesGood WritersReading HabitsWriters Reading Author:Francis Bacon
“I'd love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino, but these are dreams I don't need to rush to achieve. I'll be ready to make those movies when I'm ready to make those movies and they're ready to make them with me, if they ever want to.” IfsWantNeedsDreamAchieveReadyQuentinTarantino Author:Douglas Booth
“The destination you think is going to make you happy, doesn't. I always find myself thinking, "I'm getting ready right now, but when I get to the party it's going to be great!" Once at the party, I find myself going, "Man, can't wait to get in bed tonight. I'm pooped." It's like that with my career, too.” ThinkingMenWaitingPartyCareersReadyRight NowBedTonightDestinationMake You Happy Author:Eric Lange
“I just want a life that's full of up-leveled joy. And I'm ready to meet a nice man! Put that out there, too.” MenWantJoyNiceReadyNice Man Author:Kim Coles
“My next door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.” TwoJobsNextDoorsDogReadyCurrentsNeighborAdministrationShovelsTwo DogsNext Door Neighbors Author:Gary Johnson
“Motors that are vulnerable to shorting out because of snow ingestion should have snow filters installed over air intakes, and spare motors should be ready to replace any failed motors.” ShouldAirReadyShould HaveSnowVulnerableSparesMotorFilters Author:Robert James Thomson
“You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.” AudienceReady Author:Paul Haggis
“So you can be about your business, and then on it comes again. And this time you're ready, and you've got a wine glass or something. And you put the glass up to the wall, and you can hear through the wall a little bit more of the song - maybe just the middle bit this time. You know, you managed to get in a little bit of the end. And so it goes on until - because you just got to - you really just want to sing it.” KnowsWantLittlesEndsSongBitsMiddleReadyWallGoes OnLittle BitWineGlassesWine Glass Author:Nick Lowe
“I'm working hard and I think I'm where I should be at by now but I'm in no hurry at all, I'm taking one fight at a time, I want to win my fights. With the title shot I don't know yet but if I get the chance someday, I will be more than ready.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantShouldHardFightingWinningChanceReadyShotsTitlesSomeday Author:Alexander Gustafsson
“I'm based in Stockholm and I train at Nexus Fighter Centre, it's my club and my head coach Andreas Michael but for two weeks now I went to Vegas to train with Team Alliance with coach Eric Del Fierro, Phil Davis and top level guys. I had top level sparring so I'm more than ready.” TwoGuyLevelsWeekTeamReadyTrainClubsCoachesFighterCentreVegasAlliancesTwo WeeksEricAndreaHead CoachesNexusSparringStockholm Author:Alexander Gustafsson
“I'm a low maintenance girl. I try to do very little when I don't have to. I find that if I have regular 'maintenance' treatments, I can be ready to go out in 5 minutes. I get my hair coloured, have regular massages, and love getting my lashes tinted and my brows shaped. Plus heaps of exercise, and as much sleep as possible. That way when I'm going out all I have to do is slick on some gloss, and a bit of blush and I am ready to go! Of course the LA sun helps too.” IfsWayTryingLittlesI CanHelpingGirlCoursesBitsSleepSunMinutesReadyHairExerciseLowsAnd LoveTreatmentPlusGoing OutBrowsMaintenanceMassageLashesSlickGloss Author:Cat Deeley
“But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish.” YearsStatesWantedMovingWinningFeltBitsFiveReadyMovedAccomplishFive YearsAccomplishedBowlsChampionshipCowboyGypsySuper BowlMiamiMoved OnOklahomaNational ChampionshipsReady To Move On Author:Jimmy Johnson
“I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.” KnowsWorldDifferentShowsSeemsLostInterestingReadyRaisesConventionsRaises Questions Author:William Mapother
“You have to be intelligent. You have to know what other guys are doing because you're in the back end and you see everything, so you have to alert others what to be ready for, and that makes it easier on everyone. It's just like playing offense, but now you're the quarterback of the defense, and you need to be vocal and take on that leadership responsibility. If you do, everything else becomes easier.” IfsKnowsNeedsEndsGuyResponsibilityReadyEasierIntelligentDefenseOffenseVocalOther GuysQuarterback Author:Calvin Pryor
“I think that the work that's left to be done - and I see the end in sight at this point - is to just let go and stop talking about it. It's definitely 'stop talking about the whole size thing.' I don't go to my girlfriend's house and say, 'Hey, I'm your big friend, let's talk about big things.' It's not a topic of conversation within my friend group - I'm ready for society, Hollywood, the press, magazines, everyone, to just catch up and say, 'These women are just like the women we've been using for so long. Let's just throw them into the mix and stop talking about it.'” ThinkingLongEndsDoneWholeBigsHouseLeftTalkingGroupsReadyConversationLetting GoMy FriendsHollywoodSightPressesSizeMagazinesHeyGirlfriendTopicsBig ThingsMy GirlfriendJust Let Go Author:Ashley Graham
“You have to be ready to go through peaks and valleys along the way. Be ready to sacrifice some of the things in life that are considered normal for most people for the first while. And understand the business of the film industry, because studying the art and your craft alone isn't enough anymore.” PeopleWayFirstsArtEnoughFilmStudySacrificeReadyIndustryNormalCraftsValleysThings In LifeFilm IndustryPeaks And Valleys Author:Kyle Cassie
“I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all mapped out. I'm ready. I'm ready to bring it to the world.” WorldWantWritingBookNextHalfFictionReady Author:Moshe Kasher
“I know from my own experience that you've got to be ready on day one. There is just too much unpredictable threat and danger in the world today to try to just say wait, I'll get to that when I can. That is just not an acceptable approach.” KnowsWorldTryingI CanTodayWaitingMy OwnToo MuchDangerReadyApproachThreatAcceptableUnpredictableWorld Today Author:Hillary Clinton
“I had the insane misconception that I was ready to conquer the known universe with Tähtivaeltaja. No mercy!” UniverseKnownReadyMercyInsaneConquerMisconception Author:Toni Jerrman
“My dog and 'right hand man,' who recently passed, taught me that guardian angels and cycles tend to come in every form in the universe. He was 8 years old and saw me through 8 independent projects, from an unsure place to a confident one. And now I'm ready to fly.” MenYearsHandsFormUniverseSawsDogTaughtReadyProjectsAngelIndependentCyclesGuardianMy DogUnsureGuardian Angel Author:Mya
“Woody Weatherman showed me two beats, the "do do dat, do do dat" rock beat and the "ooh at ooh at ooh at" punk beat and other than that I was pretty limited. I had just gotten a drum kit for Christmas, which I was stoked about so I was ready to go. Back then, the prerequisite for playing punk rock drums wasn't very high, it was really pretty generic as I'm sure you can imagine.” TwoImagineRocksReadyBeatsPunkPunk RockWoodyPrerequisitesGenericReally PrettyWeathermen Author:Reed Mullin
“I think that's what's important, to see how we ourselves can become all that we are and can be. Everybody says they want to change, but it's not that simple, it's not that easy. Who's ready to change and give up? Who's ready to get out of their rut and leave it behind, not just pour honey or syrup over their heads and over the rut? Who's ready to change and give up that rut, who's ready willing and able?” ThinkingWantGivingImportantAbleEasySimpleBehindsWillingReadyGiving UpHoneyWhat's ImportantRutsSyrup Author:Surya Das
“So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.” WorldWantImportantAbleActionWillingReadyIntention Author:Surya Das
“I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.” PersonsLongShareReadyLong TimeMeetingsHopefully Author:Aaron Tveit
“The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.” LooksCultureReadyDemandCamerasAll TimeHeadlinesDemeaningCelebrity Culture Author:Zoe Cassavetes