Almost Quotes

TV is the place for writers to live. This is where you have creative control and you're constantly writing. 'Twilight' had almost a TV schedule to it. I was constantly working on these projects. There was not a whole lot of lull but I've gone onto other feature projects that's like, 'Okay, I'll get back to you on notes.'

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.

It's fun to be blond, and it's almost difficult to remember how I used to look with my proper hair color.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

And when you started looking into Roger East, it was almost like he had disappeared from history.

This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.

Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

I make some of my best recipes with a simple homemade stock. Keep shrimp shells stored in a plastic bag in the freezer. When you have almost a gallon-bag full, you can make a stock in 30 minutes that you can use in soups and sauces. You can then freeze the stock in ice-cube trays.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.