The smartest people I know have that extra edge. The risk is always there that you’ll look terribly undignified and slobbering, and inside I cringe about that, but I should be more aggressive.
Sometimes you learn more from films that aren’t terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.
The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.
Particularly when you’re young, you’re terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.
I wasn’t terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn’t terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy.
When you are doing pantomime, you’re not immersing yourself in anything terribly deep.
Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.
Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time.
If a woman is bed-heady and it doesn’t look put on, it’s pretty sexy. But when a woman is wearing a really smart dress with great heels and her hair is pulled back, that’s terribly sexy too – like an Audrey Hepburn kind of thing.
I wrote ghost stories because I’d always enjoyed reading them, and they seemed to be fizzling out… I don’t take them terribly seriously. It’s like a cake, with ingredients.
I try to see what the priorities are and not get terribly fussed about things that don’t matter. Not be swept away by feelings and emotions, which is my tendency.
There’s a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I’m terribly shy of that.
Getting to the point where a cause goes from being a terribly daunting task with a handful of adherents to an acknowledged success with momentum and many allies is a rarity.
When a political advocacy network hires a former CIA analyst and starts tailing save-our-parks activists, you know there’s something terribly dangerous happening to our democracy.
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
It all felt like a terribly long time. It would have meant that I had to make five movies in five years and if you don’t like the movies, too bad. I guess I just wanted my freedom, and I think my life has been incredibly enhanced as a result.
I don’t know if anyone necessarily looks at themselves and what they do as being terribly significant one way or another.
I’m not terribly conversant with children’s literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
I’m sure it’s not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, ‘cos it’s quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.
Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring.
Our experience is that it is not terribly difficult to do business in China. But the issue is, how much stability do you have in terms of what you negotiate up front and when you’ve got your feet and your investments on the ground.
I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.
People who draw tend to think they’re craftsmen, so they really want to hang onto their pens and papers, but it’s not terribly productive. To be honest with you, it’s faster and easier to start with the computer.
God, I am afraid he won’t give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me – it is all so terribly depressing.
I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.
A lot of people of my Ulster Protestant background would have been very suspicious of the notion of a film about Bloody Sunday. Our fear would have been that it would be terribly anti-Britain and anti-soldiers: a piece of nationalist propaganda.
I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.
Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I’m just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.
I don’t over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn’t hear myself.
I’m not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I’m terribly uncomfortable.
There’s something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn’t go away. You can’t get rid of it, but it’s not something that’s terribly obvious.
I don’t disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief – that is their own right to do that. But I think it’s terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.
Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.’s acquittal.
We say, ‘You may drink at the age of 21 but not at the age of 20.’ Why? Because humans like to create terribly neat categories out of nature because it allows us a nice, tight social organization. The truth is, nature doesn’t care that we like nice, neat social organizations. Nature likes variety.
Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.
I think Tilda Swinton is terribly interesting. I think she’s fascinating. I love her work.
Women have become stronger, and there’s a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
I’m a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That’s very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They’re just mean people. I’m not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, ‘That was pretty cool.’
I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it’s fine.
There’s something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.
I think it’s natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently – whether they went well or whether they went terribly.
I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
I’m terribly bad at lying in real life. I flush, look away, do the scratching of the nose, or whatever.
I’ve always dreaded the sea – in fact, I get terribly seasick.
People are in a hurry. They don’t want to look at a long list of ingredients. Cooking is terribly hard work.
I have never been terribly ambitious.
I respond well to terribly beautiful, terribly brilliant Russian women.
Are we asking terribly much of people to be curious and interested in the female experience from the female perspective?
It’s a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it’s not something I find terribly important.
I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.
I believe that the arts of a culture are terribly important and yet almost indefensible.
I used to be terribly aggressive in my twenties.
Yevtushenko is a high member of his country’s establishment, and he lies terribly about the United States to his Russian readers.
We’ve been around about 20 years and we only have, what, two records? We’re not terribly prolific.
I feel like there’s an obligation – this sounds terribly pretentious – if you’re an artist, to share your own experience in a way that’s truthful and honest: ‘This is what I have to share; this is my life.’
I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
Human memory is short and terribly fickle.
I used to play chess when I was a kid and participate in national-level tournaments with the geekiest guys. This one time, I was losing terribly, so I batted my eyelashes and flirted as I asked for a draw. My dad just couldn’t believe it. He thought, ‘What have I created, a floozy?’ But it worked!
Oakland’s time is coming. In fact, Oakland’s time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it’s terribly exciting.
The Labour party still really has no idea why their people voted for Brexit. They still think that basically it’s naive Labour voters being conned by terribly clever Tories.
