I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.
Life however is teeming with vitality and is likewise terribly tenacious; holding on against impossible odds in impossible situations over impossible lengths of time.
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment.
My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.
If you don't have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you won't reach them or will quit trying.
Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it.
This idea that you can watch a show like 'True Detective,' and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you if the finale is not your favorite episode of it? It's just odd to me.
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.
I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables.
