Quotes About Author

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

There's a common misconception that if I uploaded a 20-minute video that I just pressed 'record' and put it online. It's not that at all.

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.

When Ralf Rangnick was in charge, you could see he was out to force a pressing game.

The only way we are going to ameliorate pressing social needs is through public intervention.

The global movement of displaced people, many of whom end up in detention without hope, is one of the most pressing issues of our times.

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.

It's definitely always daunting to have your name on a show and a lot of pressure in some ways, but obviously in other ways it's a lot of fun and it's a great honor.

I don't want to put any pressure on myself. I just do what I do and have fun.

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

In 'Legend,' I was burning with ego. In 'JJN,' I am playing someone who can die for his prestige.

Merrill Lynch is this hugely prestigious brand.

The BBC is very prestigious from an American's perspective, so I'm a big fan of it.

Meeting fans and taking pictures is an extra I would like to offer when time and energy allow it. It's not something a fan can presume to have.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

The core civil liberty that underpins our American criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. Every person enjoys this presumption long before the commencement of any investigation or official proceeding.

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.

I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous.

It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves.

It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.

It's not going to be my political raison d'etre, I think it would be presumptuous to take a leadership role. But I would want to make sure that we support equality.

I can't pretend I'm some robot that's always neutral. I need to share my opinion - and sometimes aggressively so.