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There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk.

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything.

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.

Didn't the other guys tell you? Nobody dunks on Manute B-O-L!

In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did.

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes.

Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.

I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.