Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!
When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!
Think I have made a terrible mistake going to college. Have decided to become a shepherd and spend my days tending to flocks of goats
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!
Sometimes, somehow... I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth, that mourns over terrible great sin done by men.
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
OCD is an anxiety disorder, one that brings conscious intrusive thoughts and compulsions - 'Touch the bannister. Pick up that rock. You'd better do it, or something terrible will happen.'
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.
I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.
I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
I am really terrible when it comes to guys. Inside, I just see myself as this overweight tomboy with funny-coloured hair and bad skin.
I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.
When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'
Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that's a terrible approach to take. Because it isn't true.
The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.
I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out.
When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.
I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.
I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.
The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'
