Quotes About Reflection

Honestly, at the end of every season, we sit down and review where we're at.

It's always good to get good reviews. I read my reviews. There are a lot of writers who don't read their reviews at all. I read them; then I put them away because it's not good to engage with them too much.

Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author.

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

I write first drafts by hand, often out of the house somewhere, and then, when I've got a draft, type it up and let it sit, sometimes for a long time, and then when I'm ready, I work on revision.

I love films that aren't just speaking to certain moments in the culture but are something that people can revisit.

I've been lucky enough in my career to have opportunities to revisit things that meant a lot to me in childhood.

Sometimes you revisit things and relationships, and then you get going on in it, and you realized that there is a reason this ended.

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.

I can't rewrite history.

When I write something, I constantly rewrite.

I really try every day. I really try to come into work thinking about what rhetoric I'm going to put out in the world and what my father would've done if he was still here.

I love music. In a lot of my downtime, I spend time listening to other people's music or other people's rhymes and writing my own.

I've often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn't really in the rhythm of the story anymore. I see a little bit of writing that doesn't seem to be doing as much work as it should be doing, and right at the end, I will sort of rev it up. But when I finally read the story again, it seems a bit obtrusive.

I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.

'Rick' never really fit. I tried for 18 years to make it work, and no one wanted to call me Rick. It should always have been Ricky. That's what it always should have been, so I'm going back to it.

It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.

It's never been bad or ridiculous. I know who I am and what I've done, and I'm really comfortable with myself.

Out of 35 pictures I made, 30 were ridiculous.

Ten million 16-year-old girls would sell their right arm to live the life that I've had.

I think that it's important to question things and not just accept everything right away.

I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it.

So, it was a tough decision to leave Facebook, but it was definitely the right decision. I haven't regretted it at all.