Usually Quotes
4349 Usually quotes by 2960 unique authors
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I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience.…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human…
— Stefan Zweig
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Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not…
— Moss Hart
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When a man diets, he eats oatmeal in addition to everything else he usually eats.
— E. W. Howe
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When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.
— Elvis Costello
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A man usually falls in love with the woman who asks the kind of questions he is able to answer.
— Ronald Colman
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Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities…
— Nicholson Baker
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I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good…
— John Sayles
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I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos.
— Halle Berry
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I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't…
— Janet Fitch
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Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.
— Meg Cabot
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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said,…
— Charles Handy
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it…
— T. Boone Pickens
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to…
— Vince Gill
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The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
— Warren Farrell
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More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.
— David Korten
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Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if…
— Ethan Coen
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The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.
— Richard Dreyfuss
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In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation…
— John Millington Synge
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In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.
— Richard Dreyfuss
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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
— Alan Dean Foster
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Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make…
— Stephen Ambrose
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Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.
— Leon Uris
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We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious…
— Richard Rohr
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