I wanted to quit Nichia. I didn't care about anything. It was OK for them to fire me. I was not afraid of anything.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.' But eating too many, is quite enough-plenty. And you'll have to go see the good doc anyway.
The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.
I'm really tall, and I used slouch and think it was really uncool to stand up straight - now I wish I hadn't been quite so dumb!
Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.
You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.
I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.
Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.
When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
My parents didn't know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well for me.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
We in Scotland need fiscal responsibility. Quite simply, we need to be responsible for what we raise in tax and what we spend in tax.
If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to turn out with quite the authenticity and passion it should have.
I remember when I was on 'Saturday Night Live' my first year, and I wasn't getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit.
I'm quite certain that if I lost my sense of humor, it would most definitely need to be replaced by a padded cell.
I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can have a laugh.
We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.
I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.
I like to think I have quite a few different styles - sometimes it's a bit rock n' roll, other times more girly and feminine.
