What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.
If you want people to like you you have to buy them things.
You have to take those concepts and prove them, a little bit like you do a PhD thesis.
It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.
I like you angry better than weepy.
It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
To me, style is like your fingerprint. Nobody else has it.
Anything's possible, you gotta dream like you never seen obstacles.
I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.
It's north and south pole. When you win you feel great, but when you lose it, it's like you've lost 10 games in a row.
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
It was cool to have Mark [Hamill] ask me to do all these voices for him like he was a fan. I was like, "You're not meeting me, I'm meeting you. "
The guy who broke up with me. . . he was exactly like you, in the beginning. Charming, and nice. They're all like you in the beginning. But I always end up like this. And I can't do it anymore.
Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.
My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning. "
If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.
Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.
It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good people is always good.