Quotes About Author

Nothing upset me more than the award of Companion of Honour to Eric Hobsbawm in reward for a lifetime of unswerving loyalty to the Soviet Union.

The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful.

A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.

That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.

While I was writing 'The Big Girls,' I had to take a big breath each morning and calm myself sufficiently to once again enter that world. But friends tell me that it is the only thing that really interests me. They say that I like to be upset.

I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody.

I respect women, and I have not and will never sing anything that will upset my fans.

My music asks people to think critically, so how can I get upset when people think about me critically?

My fans are always upset because I don't do projects frequently and because I don't use social media.

I don't even read positive reviews unless they are absolutely certified by eight different people to not contain one thing that could upset me.

Right after Katrina, we did 'Sippiana Hericane.' I was real upset with everything.

If people call my book an actor's memoir I will be very upset. I can't bear anything too literal, so it has elements of truth and elements of fiction sitting side by side.

When it comes to the NFLPA, I don't have problem saying what's right, whether it upsets somebody or not.

In the Eighties I was brash. I said things and it upset a lot of people.

I prefer catchy, passionate, temperamental music. And as an upside of that, Ghost's repertoire has, over the years, been piqued by a few, sort of, hits.

I was so excited to play Will. He goes into the Upside Down, and he has some pretty crazy experiences.

We have our Upside Down document which describes its rules and its mythology in quite a bit of detail, but I think we're just going to slowly parse that out, and maybe not even fully use all of it.

We're huge, huge fans of the 'Dark Souls' games, and there's something about when you're playing 'Dark Souls.' Immediately when you're in that world, it was to do with the imagery, it has to do with the sound design, and you're just immediately very uncomfortable and on edge. We wanted you to feel that way when you're in the Upside Down.

I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.'

I don't believe in remaking television series. I should never have agreed to reviving 'Upstairs Downstairs' because my heart wasn't in it, but part of me did think about my pension.

I've got allergy pills upstairs in my room, and it says 'For Cat Work' right on it.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

I'm probably the most uptight, conservative person you'll meet. I'm very religious.

I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.