Quotes About Author

In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment.

I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'

'The Woman on the Train' just didn't sound as good. I'll take care next time not to have 'girl' in the title.

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.

I grew up in San Francisco, and I trained as a ballet dancer until college.

All our hiring staff are trained to interview in English. They're trained to look for Westernized segments because we deal with global customers.

It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.

I am trained as a psychologist, and I think of all human issues in terms of psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary theory.

I was trained to be more technical in Europe because that's the audience. They enjoy a more technical style.

My mother is a trained psychologist.

If I had planned to be a singer, I would have got trained. In fact, I was more into theatre and plays while growing up.

Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.

Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.

Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.

Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.

I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of theory from Jungian psychology and a few other places.

I wasn't trained to write non-fiction.

I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.

I love Bollywood films, but I have been trained in independent cinema.

I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts.

When I got the paperwork for Superstars, and I saw they asked what size swimsuit I wear, I had a hot flash, nearly broke into cold sweats and hired a trainer immediately.

I was a painting contractor for a while and then a dog trainer. I opened my own business dog training and had some success.

I know I'm the most scrutinized trainer and have millions of eyes on me. But you know what? I don't have a problem with that.