Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.
Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that’s nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it’s ignored, it withers.
I was a professional gambler. When I lived in London, there were a couple of years when I didn’t really earn money doing anything else. I mean, I did other things: like, I made work, and I was working with Derek Jarman at the time, but the way I made money was putting money on horses.
There are two perspectives on the oil sands. You have companies that want to make it the next Saudi Arabia. The other is that it’s a transitional resource to a low-carbon economy, and to regard it as anything else is to drain the continent’s financial resources.
I started out doing production work on promos, stuff like that. I didn’t think it was cool to be working for NPR. I didn’t need anything to be cool. I just wanted something to do that would be interesting. It was fun. I didn’t think of it as anything else but fun.
To me not one thing is better than anything else, I’m completely proud of everything I’ve written and recorded.
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it’s anything else. It just doesn’t fly if it isn’t musical.
I’m not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it’s more for the author’s ego than anything else?
I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don’t worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.
I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
I don’t believe in development. I believe in pre-pre-production, so when I sit down with an idea for a movie, I’m thinking I’m going to make this film. I don’t think about anything else.
When people tell me I’m a prolific writer, it’s a nice thing to say. But I think to myself, ‘Yeah, but I don’t do anything else.’
Mascara, in general, is just so good if you don’t have anything else. It just makes eyes pop.
As actors and directors, I feel like our job, more so than anything else, is to shine a light on a subject and to let people know that they’re not alone.
I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.
My first company failed completely. And it failed at about ten months old. I had about 12 months of savings, so when it failed I was thinking: ‘Do I go back to work?’ And at that point I believed so deeply in what I was doing that I couldn’t imagine anything else other than trying to make this business work.
I don’t care what they say about me when I’m through with sports. I don’t want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.
The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain’s and the body’s systems is inestimable. It’s like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn’t grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.
The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There’s no time to do anything else.
I can’t add. I don’t understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I’ve always been able to, and I’ve always liked to. Even if I didn’t understand it, I liked to.
The ’80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness – a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.
Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.
Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it’s good or bad. There’s a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don’t belong on the planet sometimes.
My kids are fanatical about ‘Scooby-Doo’, and I think that the creators of ‘Scooby-Doo’ somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It’s far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air.
The one thing that frustrates me more than anything else is that no studio has ever told me to tone down violence. They only ask you to make it more presentable.
More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress – a famous actress – which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.
I think you get so wrapped up in the book you’re currently writing, it’s hard to think about anything else. But I know as soon as I’m done with this book, I’ll move on to something else.
I’m a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
It’s funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don’t get to decide what you play. I don’t know. I can only say this: I don’t want to and have no interest in playing a plastic surgeon. That’s for sure. I’m open to anything else.
I’m a racer at heart more than anything else, and that will always be my priority: competing. But ultimately, if you can’t drive, you can still have the competitive spirit outside of a car.
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn’t ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.
Everybody thinks I’m at death’s door, but I’m not. There’s nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.
As an athlete there are times in your career where, during a game, any decision you make seems to be the right one. The bowler bowls where you want, you don’t have to think and you are so ‘in the zone’ that you are not aware of anything else around you.
I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I’ve said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you’re spending money.
I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
Quite honestly, I’m so happy to be Jonathan’s wife and my children’s mum that anything else is a bonus.
Self-publishing is great, but I don’t want to be an icon for it, or anything else.
The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.
My voice gets recognized before anything else. It’s always gotten attention. In choruses at church and school, I started as a tenor, moved to a baritone and finally became a bass. I knew then that my voice would be my instrument. Now if I want to hide, I just keep my mouth shut.
Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don’t have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can.
I love playing music. There’s no way I could do anything else.
Once I’m working on something, I don’t do anything else. I’m mono-track.
New technology is useful, but it’s inefficient and ugly; it knows it’ll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.
My wife asked me once if I weren’t a comedian what I would do. I couldn’t answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.
Being a celebrity or anything else where you’re really ambitious, it’s really a game to see how successful you can get.
I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don’t owe the public anything else.
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
It’s true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
I went to a drama club when I was little, but it was more of an excuse to flirt with girls than anything else. We never put on plays.
