I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way. During the writing process, I tend not to listen to too much music. I obviously wear a lot of influences on my sleeve, but if I was listening to too many records, I would turn into too much of a monkey.
My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize.
Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.
High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.
I did have a life before the Animals, and I'm trying constantly to prove that I have a life after the Animals. People tend to forget that I was the frontman with War for two years. People sort of have compartmental memories.
You are aware that the sale of liquore is currently against the law. " Edgar went on, "but I suppose that is why you enjoy it. " "Everyone should have a hobby or two," Magnus said. "Mine just happen to include illegal trade, drinking and carousing. I've heard of worse. " "We tend not to have time for hobbies. " Shadowhunters. Always better than you.
I feel like we tend to be our own worst critics.
Big moments like the Olympics tend to freeze things in place. It's just very hard to break through the news cycle with peoples's eyes on the Olympics. That's even more true with the concerns about Zika and terrorism.
You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.
We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
After realizing a principle, unless you learn it with your body you cannot expect to get true understanding. Scholars in particular tend to learn in theory only.
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.
I have never had great expectations of my performance or of a film. I try not to think about the outcome. If you look that far ahead, it sort of taints your choices as an actor. I try as hard as I can to believe that no one is ever going to see it and that it's not even a movie. Then you can allow yourself to bare more. Then, once a project is done, I tend to forget about it until it comes out.
People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.
Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.
We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.
People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.