When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I’m discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that’s a good place to be.
I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.
I’ll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.
Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, ‘How come? Why? What’s this?’ They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it’s discovering the world around us.
As a fan of pop music myself, I hate discovering that a favourite track has a completely different meaning from the one I thought.
Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it’s like discovering a filmmaker who you’re taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, ‘I’m so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.’
I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.
By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.
In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that’s not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation… discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
At the turn of the twentieth century, board games were becoming increasingly commonplace in middle-class homes. In addition, more and more inventors were discovering that the games were not just a pastime but also a means of communication.
I got into punk at 17 after discovering an all-girl band from Long Island on the Internet called The Devotchkas – four crazy-looking girls with fast, driving basslines and high-pitched gang vocals who shared the same dress sense as the punks I used to eye up curiously in Camden.
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music – and then, through that, American history.
I’ve consumed true crime since first discovering ‘Helter Skelter’ by Vincent Bugliosi in a used bookstore at age 9 or 10 and staring in fascination and horror at the crime-scene photos in the middle.
Discovering I’m gay just sort of happened much later in life.
Discovering L.A., in particular in the early ’80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys’ ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.
I’ve always known what I’m meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.
As a child, it was really hard because I’d be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I’d sit in class for months without speaking the language, but as I got older, I welcomed the possibility of discovering new cultures and languages.
From a psychoanalytical point of view, we start discovering the world through our mouths in the very first stage of our lives, when we’re just born.
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are – you’re on your own; you’ve got you first job. You’ve got your first apartment. You’re living away from your parents. You’re just discovering who you are.
The album format is what we grew up on. Its what we aspired to when we were first discovering music – its what’s what we know. We actually talked about this because nowadays, with iTunes and everything, there’s a lot of pressure to get this track and that track, whatever.
I spent a lot of time in college. I was just being academic and discovering myself through reason and analysis.
Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.
I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time.
My favorite movie is ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’ with Clint Eastwood, a guy who gets his family killed by the bad guys then goes on a journey of revenge, eventually discovering himself – very existential.
People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they’re somehow discovering reality, but of course that’s just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
It’s a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what’s beyond in the darkness, beyond where you’re writing.
I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I’m discovering who I am.
With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they’ll become a great musician.
It’s my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves – how to learn and grow from that – and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
There’s nothing I really wanted to record more than Bach. It’s wonderful music. It’s – on a grand scale, there’s a lot to it. There are – I can work on it for a long time and keep discovering more things, you know, that surprise me every time.
For me, the best moments in storytelling are the ones where I feel I’m discovering something.
The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest – find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.
The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
Colleges have to be about discovering what we don’t yet know and that process will come to a screeching halt if we are leveling threats of bias over the way people phrase things.
Growing up, I always loved working with people. I love playing with people and having that moment of discovering something different. I believe in the magic of what music is.
‘SNL’ is all about discovering the unknown, the unexpected.
The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.
I perceive myself as rather uninhibited, with a certain mathematical facility and more interest in the broad aspect of a problem than the delicate nuances. I am more interested in discovering what is over the next rise than in assiduously cultivating the beautiful garden close at hand.
I know it’s hard to believe that I’m no longer the young ‘Zuri’ everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I’m growing, I’m maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.
