I spend an awful lot of time just thinking about what is going on in the world and talking to people about that. It’s probably one of my default social activities, just getting dinners with friends.
I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories. Whenever I lose, I focus on the ability of my opponent and on the mistakes I made.
People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.
I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
I don’t want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I’m a big deal, because it doesn’t help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.
I think there is an awful lot of technology for technology’s sake. I have yet to be convinced by my husband that persuading our mobiles to talk to our computers is going to be quicker and more straightforward than scribbling a note in our kitchen diary.
There’s so much pressure on kids to perform and to be the best they can be, and particularly with boys: boys who are the gifted ones get loaded with an awful lot of expectation and self-expectation, and that’s really hard for an 18 year old.
If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead – God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn’t see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.
Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there’s an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
I’ve taken a personal trainer once a week because I’m dreadful. I don’t exercise; I don’t walk about an awful lot because my feet hurt, so I thought it was a good idea. It makes you move bits you otherwise might not.
Ordinarily, when you go to see a play, an awful lot is presented in front of your eyes.
There’s an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
There is an awful lot you can accomplish by being a vocal champion for a certain cause.
Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really – Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
There are an awful lot of people out there that don’t want to see Boston go away, and I’m one of them.
But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He’s seen my good stuff, he’s seen my bad stuff, he’s seen the ones I directed, he’s read my autobiography. There’s an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting.
The universe is very big – there’s about 100,000 million galaxies in the universe, so that means an awful lot of stars. And some of them, I’m pretty certain, will have planets where there was life, is life, or maybe will be life. I don’t believe we’re alone.
There’s an awful lot of us who don’t quite speak finance, speak money.
I love what I do for a living, it’s the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don’t truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I’m always trying to balance that with what is really important.
It’s time to wake up to the fact that you’re just another avatar in someone else’s MMO. Worse: From where they stand, all-powerful Big Data analysts that they are, you look an awful lot like a bot.
In addition to all the good things it’s done, the Internet has empowered an awful lot of people who would have been best off disempowered, including quite a few bloggers on both sides.
I love the mouse, I love designing games for a mouse-based system. I think it’s still a way of playing games which, you know, everyone’s really excited about the Wii and all that, but for me, the mouse is for the PC an awful lot what that pointing device did for the Wii.
I’ve done an awful lot of stuff that’s a monument to public patience.
I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies – I’ll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is ‘Sunset Boulevard’ starring Gloria Swanson.
There isn’t any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.
There’s the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don’t go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn’t been a theoretical exercise. It’s been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we’ve learned an awful lot from.
I’m amazed that movies ever get finished at all – much less come out good once in a while. It’s an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.
We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy.
An awful lot of actors shy away from the uglier aspects of the human condition. They want to be liked, which is a cop-out. You’ve got to go for it.
I don’t know if English is the only language where some expressions only and solely mean the opposite of what they say but we do have an awful lot of them.
There’s actually an awful lot of mathematics that goes into designing a railway, keeping it running, making sure everything runs optimally. Every time you need something to be optimal there’s going to be some mathematics at play.
In terms of ‘Solaris,’ I didn’t really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There’s one scene at a dinner party, and it’s discussed, but it wasn’t an overwhelming theme for me.
I don’t plan an awful lot in life just as I don’t plan an awful lot in my fiction.
Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that’s shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them.
I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren’t paying me for my acting, for God’s sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you’re king everything will go swimmingly.
An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
I coach defending an awful lot but I don’t think too many teams in the Premier League or in the world of football actually coach defending anymore, certainly not the full-backs.
I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It’s OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures.
I liked Westerns for two reasons: First, it took the actor outside. They were all very physical at that time and not limited to a stage. Second, they paid my rent an awful lot.
I haven’t written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you’re likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.
I get into an awful lot of trouble for not being polite.
You look at the road you could have taken, you know, I just think that’s interesting… I’ve been on a lot of roads and I had to hitchhike on a couple of ’em… I have to be very honest: There’s not an awful lot of regret in my life. I think that, you know, you learn from everything, and then, sometimes, you don’t.
There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else’s language.
On one hand, my gender has never been an issue. The issue has always been what’s on the page. But the reality is, an awful lot of women fought an awful lot of battles to get me to that place.
I will never be Barbra Streisand, but I have done an awful lot more than what I was sent out to be.
It helps an actor an awful lot when he looks like the part. There’s nothing more disconcerting, that makes you more anxious or more insecure, than when you don’t look like who you’re supposed to be.
I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.
I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?
For years, I’ve felt that there’s an inner cook in me just waiting to be unleashed. But I have to confess I’m having an awful lot of trouble finding her in real life.
