When you are absorbed in a biographical subject, you get so close you don't realise the potential effect of what you say.… — Sarah Bradford Copy Share Image
I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We don't like talking about race in the U.K. - it's a very sensitive subject. People get extremely defensive and run for… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
In all my years in 'Countdown's' Dictionary Corner, the subject most guaranteed to rankle with our viewers is the presence of Americanisms… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to… — Joe Flaherty Copy Share Image
Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than… — James Thomson Copy Share Image
I'm not an expert or a trained ballistician. But it is a subject I've studied intently for 50 years, so I may… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
Alien Chutney is just what the name suggests it is. Its music that is so funny and quirky and weird that it… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
I find a tremendous receptivity among the public for the subject matter of, 'Where did we come from and how did we… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction. — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
No biographical subject is ever on hold with the orthodontist. If there's a dry spell, it's your job to curtail or eliminate… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the… — Lara Flynn Boyle Copy Share Image
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to spend the rest 40 years suffering it.” — Dhaval Gajera Copy Share Image
With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
Many of our buildings have large format murals that are of varying subject matter, and we've found that those are the sort… — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject. — William Safire Copy Share Image
The first 40-50 pages of 'Veekai' is what made it film-friendly. I realised the subject would be relevant even after 50 years. — Vetrimaaran Copy Share Image
No one sets out to write escapism as a film's subject matter unless, maybe, you are making a fantasy flick. — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
There are many thousands of books on particular assassinations and on the subject in general, but nearly all of them deal with… — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually. — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
I'm not the authority on the subject. I'm a middle-aged white guy speaking about racism. I'm just finding it a really difficult… — Gareth Southgate Copy Share Image
I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television… — Sherri Saum Copy Share Image
A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
I'm against war with the United States. But I am an officer of the Imperial Navy and a subject of His Majesty… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
I was doing music tech as a subject and learned how to use Logic Pro and that's when I kind of had… — Tom Misch Copy Share Image
No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation. — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
It's always interesting when you play a part and then suddenly people think you're an authority on the subject. — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports. — Jim McKay Copy Share Image
I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
Rogers and Hammerstein were such a genius pair. They were able to touch on subject matter so far ahead of its time. — Ruthie Ann Miles Copy Share Image
