Quotes About Author

Until I got to the nomination of Judge Gorsuch and so much preparation time, I really wasn't familiar with the blue-slip process. But it's time-honored.

Since I had gone to a Marathi-language school, I had to take elocution classes as preparation for my part as Kasturba.

I was amazed by the kind of preparation Hollywood actors do for their roles.

My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare.

I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else.

Some Lynyrd Skynyrd songs are literally the backdrop of America. Songs like 'Simple Man' and 'Free Bird' and 'Alabama.' I wasn't prepared for how emotional the crowd gets during the songs.

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.

Find out if your radio interviewer has read your book, or you are going to have to do that part of the job on air. It's okay if they haven't, but it's always better to be prepared for what's coming.

I don't want to bother them and ruin the party they are preparing so carefully at La Scala.

I taught preschool previously, so I was like, 'Oh, I can teach little kids to act, and I can go back home.'

There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad.

There can be a conspiracy, but the presence of a conspiracy is actually not an excuse for conspiracy thinking.

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland.

The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.

Richard Gere's got this very old-school Hollywood charm. He has a presence that when he's in a room you just feel him. I mean, I'm married, but he's sexy!

The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

Insofar as Pancasila is concerned, I am only its formulator: a formulator of those feelings which have been present silently in the heart of the Indonesian people.

The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.