 What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. Author: A. A. Milne
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| But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was. Author: A. J. Foyt
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| But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear. Author: A. J. McLean
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| We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well. Author: A. J. McLean
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| It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect. Author: Aaliyah
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| I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart. Author: Aaron Allston
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| My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough. Author: Aaron Carter
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| You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules. Author: Aaron Klug
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| One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| I really like listening to music in my car. Author: Aaron Neville
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| There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. Author: Aaron Sorkin
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| I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story. Author: Aaron Stanford
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| I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow. Author: Abbey Lincoln
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| There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket. Author: Abe Lemons
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| Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest. Author: Abu Bakr
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| I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record. Author: Ace Frehley
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| One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease. Author: Ace Frehley
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| Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there. Author: Ace Frehley
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| I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there. Author: Adam Arkin
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| What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film. Author: Adam Arkin
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| There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care. Author: Adam Brody
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| There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back. Author: Adam Clymer
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| We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want. Author: Adam Jones
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| They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there. Author: Adam Petty
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| I really didn't think about song writing. Author: Adam Rich
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| It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal. Author: Adam Rich
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| So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff. Author: Adam Rich
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| That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends. Author: Adam Rich
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| We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person. Author: Adam Rich
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| You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff. Author: Adam Rich
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| I did manage to secure a feature film for 2005, though, which I'm really chuffed about. Author: Adam Rickitt
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| I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it was a six album deal, they saw quite early on that I wasn't enjoying it as I should be. I didn't feel there was anything behind it. Author: Adam Rickitt
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| My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think. Author: Adam Sandler
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| Am I about to feel really, really stupid? Author: Adam Savage
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| In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a "failed experiment." Any test that yields valid data is a valid test. Author: Adam Savage
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| That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool! Author: Adam Savage
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| I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature. Author: Adolph Green
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| From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour. Author: Adrian Edmondson
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| There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag. Author: Adrian Edmondson
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| We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people. Author: Adrian Edmondson
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| Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one, and I've always been interested in relationship pictures. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| I just think they're really insecure about themselves sometimes. I know all the girls, but we all work a lot and don't have time to hang out together. They're all really nice; I've never had a problem with any model. Author: Adriana Lima
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| Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock. Author: Afrika Bambaataa
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| One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. Author: Agatha Christie
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| It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. Author: Agnes Repplier
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| It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. Author: Agnes Repplier
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| We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh. Author: Agnes Repplier
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| I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything. Author: Agnetha Faltskog
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| This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money. Author: Agnetha Faltskog
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| I really got tired of it all. I was angry about the johns. Author: Aileen Wuornos
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| I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that. Author: Aimee Mann
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| In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice. Author: Aimee Mann
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| It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore. Author: Aimee Mann
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| It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care. Author: Aimee Mann
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| One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that. Author: Aimee Mann
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| I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked. Author: Ajay Naidu
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| I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far. Author: Ajay Naidu
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| My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out. Author: Ajay Naidu
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| My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part. Author: Ajay Naidu
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| In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers. Author: Akhmad Kadyrov
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| I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade. Author: Al Alvarez
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| Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling. Author: Al Alvarez
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| The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand. Author: Al D'Amato
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| Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged. Author: Al Goldstein
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| I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that. Author: Al Goldstein
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| Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster. Author: Al Gore
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| I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career. Author: Al Jarreau
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| I'm really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven't had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do. Author: Al Jarreau
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| Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion. Author: Al Jarreau
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| Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues. Author: Al Jarreau
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| Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded. Author: Al Jourgensen
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| All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed. Author: Al Kaline
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| I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time. Author: Al Kaline
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| I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. Author: Al McGuire
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| Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. Author: Al McGuire
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| I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know. Author: Al Yankovic
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| In love, we have to dare everything if we really love. Author: Alain Delon
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| It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character. Author: Alan Alda
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| It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas. Author: Alan Alda
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| Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change. Author: Alan Alda
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| No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. Author: Alan Alda
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| He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. Author: Alan Ayckbourn
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| Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does. Author: Alan Bates
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| The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting. Author: Alan Brien
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| I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world. Author: Alan Cranston
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| It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves. Author: Alan Cumming
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| I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters. Author: Alan Dean Foster
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| Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century. Author: Alan Dean Foster
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