Quotes on Always

People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.

The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.

I always appreciated the ex-players. Being a Yankee, you get spoiled. Old-Timers Day, all these guys coming back, spring training, being around them, you get a chance to get to know them. So I always think you learn a lot by listening.

Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.

It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.

I always wrote. I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the '80s developing my craft as a writer.

I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wife's nerves. But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.

Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.

My work has always been about not being conventional and male gaze is convention.

The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.

As a chef, I always have in mind how to properly feed the public, but at times it's easy to forget that some people have trouble even getting any food, much less adequate nutrition.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

I always considered, with every shoot, I was on trial; every time I pick up my camera and start out on the relationship, I am at degree zero. There is no coasting.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

It's always thrilling to encounter the sweep of time in a work of fiction in a way that feels authentic and real.

I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.