If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.
I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.
In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.
We had been getting some bad results, now it is up to us to make up the ground and catch Manchester United.
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how to be. An observant and willing student can learn from any circumstance.
People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.
There's this list on Internet Movie Database that I'm on, and it's called 'Actors with High Body Counts.' I'm always playing the bad guy.
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
It's a tough problem that a company faces once they branch out beyond one set of offices in California into that big bad world out there.
Lots of distractions - that's good. Murderous angels everywhere - that's bad. That's about as far as my frozen brain will go.
I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.
Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.
When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.
When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?
I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I found that this was the thing I wanted to do.
Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
