Quotes About Author

I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there.

When I was a baby, my mom was always bringing me onto set.

When I was coming onto 'Thrones,' I was looking for, 'What's the formula here?' There was a very David Lean kind of approach to it. It was traditional, in a way, and it was naturalistic in some respects, even though it was fantasy.

The thing about stories is that they almost always find their way onto the page, even if it takes a while.

Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!

I'm very lucky to be working at NXT with coaches, especially Matt Bloom, who is open-minded and a great ribber.

I think my fans are much more open-minded than some other bands' fan bases are.

'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.

'Dancing With the Stars' was fun, and it opened me up to dancing.

Social media opened up basically every opportunity for me because, traditionally, I wouldn't be thought of as a model.

Opening a complaint for investigation in no way implies that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has made a determination about the merits of the complaint.

I'm pretty infamous for opening my garage and standing in the middle of it and sneering.

Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.

I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us;' other stories that didn't make it into the collection; and several failed novel openings.

I've always been a huge 'Divine' fan. He was so iconic and so ground-breaking, especially for the time that he was around, because he was not only breaking barriers in the regular world, just being openly gay, but in the drag world as well.

I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.

I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.

We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.

Gamergate is a criminal operation to harass women.

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.