- Nov 07, 2020
Someone Quotes
On the someones who shape a moment.
This page includes praise for a steady presence who doesn't panic under pressure, and a note on a fictional character built to feel relatable even in impossible circumstances. For similar reflections, see Know.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone told me when I was 16 or 18 years old that I'd be doing a side project with Tony Iommi, I wouldn't have believed it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love the title of 'hippy' because it means someone who is thinking cosmic and futuristic.
- Too Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1991, if someone came in with a $1 million budget for a boutique, I would have fainted. Nobody spent even half that. But now, the bar has risen very high.
- Nov 07, 2020
If someone comes onto 'Dragons' Den' and annoys me, I'm going to tell them exactly what I think.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone that I have taken the mick out of, or told a story about, is someone I know properly or someone who has been a team-mate, and I know can take it. I am not stitching anyone up.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020