Maybe you could call me a little controlling or I like things to be my way, but since I was a little girl, I've known what I wanted. I'm very rootsy, but it really hadn't ever caused me too much strife. I really know when to say when. I'm not too outward but I'm very honest.
Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.
Just simple things - I like black and white, monochrome; I like suits.
Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.
'Magic Mike' is about guys learning that sometimes you can't control your life; you have to trust your intentions and instincts and let the road take you where it wants to go. It's about trusting that things will make sense when you look back, not when you look forward.
If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.
I was in a band till I was about 17; then I went to television, and I spent seven years doing that. When I came to Seattle, I started to audition for things. The passion's always there, and that's what's been the hard thing: to fit that passion into a normal life. You can't do it. You can't have a normal life and pursue this dream.
War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children.
Working on new projects gives you the opportunity to learn and absorb new things.
It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.
It's important to enjoy who you are and to appreciate things around you.
One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.
Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts.
All things are only transitory.
My parents were fairly young in the city of Compton. So the things that they played - you know, that was the hip crowd. So I was being exposed to all these ideas, from Big Daddy Kane to Eazy-E to the Bay Area - Too Short, E-40 - you know, back to Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers.
The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's not funny. You can succeed in doing all the things you're supposed to do - be truthful to scene - and if it's not funny, I'm telling you that no one's gonna care.
I miss family and friends, and I'd like to get back to work more in Scotland, and do more things like theatre and 'Red Road.' But over here you have the beach and the mountains and the climate. A lot of people diss L.A. as being all tinsel town, fake this and fake that, but a place is only as good as the people you know.
There are doctors who help people who have done bad things; there are lawyers who defend bad people. I don't think it's unique to my profession.
In 10 months, I was replaced from three films. That's when I realised I need to take my work seriously. It's a blessing I didn't get things easy. If I had, I wouldn't realise the value of success.
I'm a calm person who wants to talk about things and think things through.
Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.
When I started acting, one of the first things I learned was - especially in Hollywood - was branding. I'm a tall guy. I'm like, 'Yeah, that's probably going to be my foot in the door,' because that's my impression on everybody. I'm an athletic guy, and I think, because I grew up disliking jocks so much, that became, like, the character for me.
Video has become much more social, and as a result, there are many opportunities to use video as a way to connect people, to give them opportunities to play and participate, to make things together and have a shared social experience. I think we are just at the beginning of really exploring what social video is and what we can make of it.
One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.
I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.
I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.
Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.
In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.
When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly.
Among many other things, a smartphone functions as a handheld digital sensor for the physical world. In other words, we don't necessarily need our real world things to be directly connected, when the Web interface in our mobile devices provides the network access and intelligence.
My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.
