I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I’m also agreeable. I’ll agree to do a lot of things.
My first novel, ‘Compromising Positions,’ was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends’ December decorating options.
Turns out moonlighting as a model is harder than I thought!
I think, like all big things, you don’t know they’re going to be a big thing when you start. You just kind of, like, play because it’s fun, and it’s interesting, and then it turns out to be way more important than you expected.
To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.
I hope that there’s a little black boy somewhere in Montana that never thought that he would see a reflection of himself, and he turns on the television, like, ‘Oh my God, thank you.’
When I get in that cage and fight, that’s not me. It’s somebody else. It’s like a light switch that turns on.
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Pay attention to how you think and speak, and if it turns out that you’re sounding snide or crappy or doubtful, make the conscious decision to change.
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It’s like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.
Opening presents at midnight on Christmas Eve – midnight! As soon as it turns to Christmas Day, we’re opening those gifts.
It turns out childbirth is really… messy.
It turns out having a fast car is an excellent hobby when you’re a workaholic because even when you don’t have any free time, you can always drive to work.
I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.
There’s a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isn’t always pretty.
It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I’d have the details all wrong or I couldn’t remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.
It turns out that we can build perfectly secure software, and yet people can still get hurt.
I loved singing something like ‘I’ve Got My Eye On You’ when it’s really about the FBI. It turns a love song into something else!
Put your problems into perspective and it usually turns out things aren’t nearly so bad. And when they are, look to those memories of happy times. Keep some happiness on reserve for those rainy days!
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
As it turns out, one of the biggest choices we have doing the show is deciding the tangents we are allowed to take, the stuff that we see along the way. We’re allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.
He’s a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.
There’s a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, ‘What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.’ It’s always made me think about how deeply subjective our experience of the world can be.
Not so much the sound but as a person, I would say Katy Perry inspires me because you can always see that she’s being true to herself. She focuses on her music and even turns down big producers. Her whole career and music is about her being herself. I want to be more like that.
