I became quite taken over by Johnson’s personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
When I was 11, I was invited to be a ballboy at Stamford Bridge when Chelsea played Liverpool. I was a Liverpool fan, so I was gutted that they lost 2-0. Afterwards, I was introduced to the players – I found it terrifying.
I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped.
I first read ‘Lord of the Flies’ as a teenager. I remember feeling disillusioned afterwards, but not for a second did I think to doubt Golding’s view of human nature.
The thing I remember most about having a tantrum is not the rage during the tantrum, but the being freaked out afterwards, and embarrassed, and guilty. It’s scary to lose control of yourself.
A lot of my struggles with nutrition date back to my swimming days. I was a super-skinny young girl who would go through hours of intense training. Afterward, I’d be famished, but I had a two-hour trip home before dinner. When I did my hardest workouts, I often ate less; I was too tired to think about food.
Every great story leaves you questioning. If all of the questions are answered, and everything is resolved, it’s boring. There’s nothing to talk about afterwards.
Even as a kid, I would always imagine horrible circumstances in which I would find myself in my head, and imagine how I would feel, and act it out a bit for myself, because I was a bit of a freak like that. I love doing things like that, and I get a real buzz from it afterwards.
Being a lawyer is absolutely stressful in its own right. But then, doing ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The Bachelorette’ and all the media afterwards, you can imagine, that’s just like a whole new level of stress.
As a young man you don’t notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
I’ll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, ‘I’ll leave my bedroom window open for you.
Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.
I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can’t read it afterwards.
When I fought against Fedor, no one picked me. But then afterwards, they ask ‘Who is Fabricio Werdum?’
I always watch my matches back 100 times afterwards because that’s how I improve. This is something I’ve always done, even in NXT.
In life you get one take, and it’s perfect. It’s strange, afterwards you might think I shouldn’t have reacted that way, but that’s the way you reacted. That’s your take; that’s all you get.
Men like clothes they can wear to work and afterwards. They don’t want things to be complicated.
Heartbreak has definitely been a big inspiration for me. You can write about a bad situation and just feel so much better afterwards. For me it’s very therapeutic. But love in general – even when it’s good – is always very inspiring.
I was going to a lot of auditions and doing interviews, and afterwards the comments were always about my lips.
Creative processes are always very opaque. Afterwards, you tend to pretend that everything was planned and it was a strategy, but it was not like that at all.
We all enjoy a magic show, but we don’t demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.
At the beginning, there was this competitive vibe, like, ‘Oh, we’ve got to compete for this audience.’ But then, over the next few years afterwards, everyone on YouTube realized the more we work together, the more we collaborate, it just benefits everyone. It just became a really friendly community.
What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked. Then, senior year, someone got gum in her hair when we were dancing. She had to get one of the chaperones to take her to the office and cut up her hair. I felt really bad for her, but it worked out fine.
I went to uni and then drama school afterwards and lived in quite a few student houses.
If I have a collection of songs for an EP or mixtape, I create the narrative afterwards; but usually with an album, I have a concept and the name first.
On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.
The sun feels so lovely on your skin, but it can be really damaging. I make sure to wear SPF 50 sun cream all over my body at all times. It takes a bit longer to get tanned, but the color stays way longer afterwards.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
I remember being at the premiere of ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ and the tremendous reaction from the crowd outside, then going to a party at a hotel afterwards where the speakers were blasting ‘Shakedown,’ a song from the movie. That felt like a show biz moment to me.
You don’t write on tour; it takes all your concentrating to make the gig – that’s survival technique. Afterwards, you run around town to find interesting hipsters and go to all the interesting spots. You got to go to every hotspot until everything has closed down.
There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
I play golf, but sometimes it’s so un-relaxing, I have to play tennis to wind down. Now that I think about it, this process is sort of like when I go out for sushi and have to get a slice of pizza afterward.
Things happen on football pitches. Once the game is finished, you don’t need to talk afterwards. That’s just how it is.
When you have that privilege of being able to talk directly with your chairman, like I’ve had with Daniel Levy, that make things a lot easier. Afterwards, I know what we’ve said to each other, and we have a relationship built on trust.
My favorite thing is when we lift a trophy. Afterward, we can have a picture of us lifting a trophy. And that picture shows a lot of work, a lot of difficulty and a lot of sacrifice together.
The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, ‘Ma’am, I’m going to marry you one day.’ And 15 years later, I did.
I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I’m in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.
So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?
That period afterwards, just hating being the winner of the Tour de France, hating cycling, hating the media for asking me questions about Lance Armstrong.
All kids should vote – it gives them the opportunity to whinge afterwards because you can’t complain if you haven’t voted.
My life consists of intense focus on urgent areas of development, and then abandonment of that focus shortly afterwards.
Before you get a dog, you can’t quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can’t imagine living any other way.
I read the ‘Old Testament’ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‘The Origin Of Species’, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.
I love to laugh, and laughter is one of my favorite things. When you have a really good laugh, you feel great afterwards.
I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.
In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It’s trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.
For me, Arsenal is a football training centre. You watch the match, you enjoy it, but are you going to win a title afterwards? That’s what people remember.
When you’re fit but you can’t play, it’s very hard, especially for the head, especially for a young player. But all you can do is train hard and give your best. Afterwards, it’s the decision of the coach.
I saw my first Broadway show when I was 10 years old. I saw ‘Big: The Musical’ and I remember going out to dinner with my mom afterward and reading the souvenir program like crazy!
