To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
I don’t see myself in politics at 51. I definitely want to do something else.
As a sports person, you are always aware that at some point your career is coming to an end and you have to do something else. I always knew it had to end one day, and I was very determined to make sure I wasn’t going to be known as an ex-racing driver.
In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I’m like that old Peggy Lee song, ‘Is That All There Is?’ I want to believe there’s something else going on, but what that something else is I don’t pretend to know.
I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.
I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.
When I left high school – I was younger than my classmates, just 17 – I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I thought, ‘When I go to college, I’d rather study something else.’
We stress out over things we can’t control. So if something is a stressor, you can just simply take the power away from it by focusing on something else.
Part of me, even when I was trying to get acting jobs, I was still kind of thinking, ‘Oh I should do something else with my life.’
I had kind of left college. I wanted to study to be a sports teacher, but I had that little inner voice within me that said, ‘You should be doing something else,’ and I followed that gut instinct.
Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
We believed that there’s no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it’s bad, it’s something else. It was a much, much harder line in the ’50s and ’60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn’t exist – they didn’t have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
I am an Obamacare agnostic – if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it’s a great thing. If it doesn’t, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.
Because I’m pretty, everybody thinks I’m stupid. But it is like a mask, and you have to break the mask to show that there is something else behind it. You have to show who you are to make the others come to discover you.
Once I accomplish one thing and I’m satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I’ll become a kindergarten teacher.
I’ve worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.
GSP, that little syrup sucker, he can come get this. He thinks he’s the greatest welterweight of all time. I have something else to say about that. I’ll destroy him.
Hollywood is something else. It’s such an exaggerated idea. The concept of what ‘beautiful’ really is is ludicrous.
Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.
I was preparing myself for the theater, and… I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn’t going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.
Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society does with it after it’s produced is something else. And the African-American community has always been expert at taking things and repurposing them toward their own ends.
But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
I’m unable to do the thing that Broadway actors do in plays, sometimes for years. The same exact blocking, the same exact lines. I’m a little bit uncomfortable with that. Every night I’m looking for ways to try something else.
Women come to a time in their lives where they raise their kids, they’ve had their careers, their kids leave home, and they’re deciding, ‘Am I recommitting to my relationship? It’s been a great ride. Do I want to stay here? Maybe there’s something else.’
As my guitar playing dwindled, something else in my music got better.
If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.
I don’t know why I started writing. I don’t know why anybody does it. Maybe they’re bored, or failures at something else.
When you do make losses, or you have businesses that don’t succeed, it’s about knowing when to stop and do something else.
Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading ‘Twilight’ and want something else like it.
Over the years, many young actors have approached me: Vusi Kunene, Sello Maake ka Ncube, and Seputla Sebogodi. They all said, ‘Hey Bra John, let’s do ‘The Island and we want you to direct.’ But somehow, my heart was not in it or I was busy with something else, so I’d say, ‘ja, ja, we’ll do it.’
When you play a lot of games in a row, and you come off the pitch thinking, ‘I can’t do this no more,’ then it is time to look at something else, whether you have six months left on your contract or four years.
You have to force yourself to give up and to move onto something else. That’s the way you grow as a writer, by trying new things and tackling new subjects. But it’s difficult. There’s part of you that doesn’t want to give up because you realize that, in some way, you’re surrendering.
So few people vote these days, and I think it’s partly because they don’t feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.
It’s really good to be forced to get away and try something else, find something that’s exciting.
Our guts can really mislead us. Sometimes, what we think of as our gut is something else, like an outside influence. If you’re going to buy an apartment and it smells of freshly baked bread, you’re more likely to want to buy it.
I’ve always considered myself a little more fluid along the spectrum. So even being called bisexual… I remember, in my early twenties, I was like, ‘But bisexual means I can only like girls and guys. What if I like something else?’
So if I think of something in my head I don’t have to do it. If I can’t do I don’t do it, I do something else.
I don’t know how anyone can see the Hubble ‘Deep Field’ image and not feel like something else is going about its business out there.
I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical fiction things or subject matter I don’t feel have been given a fair shake in history.
I think that for the actors, the last thing that they want is a director that’s not watching, a director that goes ‘Okay, it sounded good to me,’ and they were doing something else or preoccupied with something else because they were worried about the light changing.
I have no time for the endless nostalgia: ‘Oh gosh I used to . . . ‘ Life is too short; I don’t have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What’s the point? Go and do something else.
If you don’t have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
I’ll tell you what 20 years teaches you – is that if one thing doesn’t last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.
There’s something else that my mother taught me, public service is about service. And, as her daughter, I’ve had a special window into how she serves. I’ve seen her holding the hands of mothers, worried about how they’ll feed their kids, worried about how they’ll get them the healthcare they need.
I just want to be in the studio. When you’ve got all the gear you want in your own house, it’s difficult to go out and do something else, you know?
Every black film feels like it’s Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else is out there – ‘Is there something else besides this type of humor?’ ‘I’m tired of seeing men in dresses.’
As an athlete, that’s something I always take with me. You fall every day, whether it’s in a job, or you miss something else, but you learn how to do it better next time. You learn it in sports. That’s a life lesson.
But post my victory in Beijing, I actually wanted to quit sport and move on to something else in life.
You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.
It’s very refreshing to go away and take a break, to clear your head, and just get into something else.
My problem is: as a singer and a dancer, if I get it in my body one way, it is harder for me to be open to something new – to something else; to something that is really organically connected to the piece and not just to my perception of it.
