Quotes About Inspiration

I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.

I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened.

I started out as a music teacher; I never planned on becoming an actress.

Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house books. Only later on could I write what I knew I was best at writing about.

Acting was never planned.

There's never anything planned. I just do what I feel is best for the song at that time.

Roja,' 'Bombay' and 'Dil Se' weren't planned as political films. It was a phase India was going through and these things affected me and found their way into my work.

People think 'Roots' was planned but it wasn't. I just had a couple of ideas and the name.

I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.

If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.

When I was planning LearnVest, everyone told me I had to talk to Ann Kaplan, one of the first female partners at Goldman Sachs. Within five minutes of our meeting, she totally got the idea - and by the time I left, she was a seed investor.

Musically, I have little ambition. The only real ambition I have is to make music and do music whenever I feel like it, without any real ambition or planning.

I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started.

I'm so happy when someone does something original, and there's no focus group or planning committee. If the cinema doesn't get an injection of that once in a while, we're in trouble.

When we make a record, we don't discuss how we are planning on doing it. It's a very natural and organic growth.

I was planning to go into the studio in the summer of 2018, and then I started two bands!

I'm not planning on being a health role model.

I am planning to start my own production house and am keen on exploring some new ideas.