Quotes About Author

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

It's a shame that gays who ought to be pushing boundaries have been domesticated and tamed and turned into pets by the Progressive Left.

I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules.

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

Official scientific organizations have all turned obsessively to the diversity agenda.

When 'Tracks' first came out, I was courted by Sydney Pollack. I had lunch with him, and he opened the conversation with, 'Honey, you ain't gonna like what I'm gonna do to your book.' I really liked him, but I turned him down, because - well, I was stupid. I also turned down a great deal of money.

My desk is an antique with bookshelves built into the side. I've turned the drawer over to hold a keyboard. We live in a 100-year-old house, and I work in an apartment above the carriage house.

Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out fortnightly.

We shot many films in Delhi that turned out to be successful at the box office. So the attachment is definitely on the positive side.

The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.

I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.

I found 'Celebrity Gangster' intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

At home, I tend to read print, and most of the time, that means recently released hardcover novels. I enjoy the feel of paper and board; I like turning pages, dog-earing my spot, jotting notes in the back.

I don't really want to go on about my personal beliefs or my involvement in magic. I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to.

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

To some degree, I was very dubious of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' idea - taking a theme park ride and turning into a film - even though they seemed to end up being quite fun films.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s.

Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.