Quotes About Inspiration

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

It is about the players that take us to success. When they feel your convictions you can sell them your ideas a bit better and take them to important results.

I dream up things, and then I convince myself that they're possible.

My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.

I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

The very fact that you thought of it means that, somewhere in your mind, it's believable to you. All you have to do is convince your audience that it's possible.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.

I am ultimately convinced that people must first be told that so and so is great ,and then, after a period of given time, they come to believe it for themselves.

When I was 14 and went on the stage for the first time, it stimulated me so much that I was convinced that I didn't want to do anything else.

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

Every once in a while, I want to get up and cook.

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

I would like to help people cook more.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them.

I don't hate Dane Cook, but I am trying to go after people I think are capable of more.

Sometimes you just dread reading scripts; it's like the chef who doesn't want to cook at home.

People don't understand how long it really takes to find beats. Sometimes they're not all the way there, but it's elements in them I love. Then I get to take them to get chopped up. Ye got to cook over a few of them.

I would like to, at some point, do a cookbook.

I'm a great cook. People have asked me to do a cookbook.