Hari Kunzru quote: "I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'"

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - th...
CAROL ANSHAW

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

When the going gets tough, I'm not always sure what you do. I'm not saying that I know how t...
JOHN MADDEN

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm g...
JOEL OSTEEN

I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really heal...
KATE HUDSON

I've said many times in the past that my career's not going to go on much longer; I'm no...
CASEY STONER

It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmake...
TIM BURTON

When I get to 40, I'm going to re-evaluate everything and then go from there. Because when I get...
JASON DAY

When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically...
MARK WAHLBERG

I'm a bombshell, so I'm going to do me. If I want to go platinum, I'm going platinum.
LIL MAMA

Don't forget, I'm 39. I didn't come here just for the money to impress myself. I'm n...
JAROMIR JAGR

You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.
BRYAN BROWN

I woke up one day and wanted to change my look. And I was like, 'Okay, what are you going to do ...
CECE PENISTON

What I get really excited about are movies that I connect with emotionally. 'Deliverance' wa...
KATIE ASELTON

You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going t...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

I just want to do good material. If I'm right for it, and it connects with me, and the material ...
SAM UNDERWOOD

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX

I think it's hard to know how one deals in situations of confrontation until you're actually...
JUSTIN TRUDEAU

I'm not that big a fan of sampling. But I feel like if I'm going to do it, I'm going to ...
KID CUDI

I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm n...
EMINEM

I'm not going to throw chairs; I'm not going to cuss. I'm not going to do that kind of s...
ANDRE WARD

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to d...
GEOFFREY BEENE

If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was s...
VALERIE BERTINELLI

Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going...
JEREMY LIN

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It's going ...
KEVIN HART

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict...
USAIN BOLT

I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like pe...
STEVE HARVEY

I'm a normal person. You say something about me, I'm going to say something back, funny or n...
AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS

When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winn...
CARMELO ANTHONY

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other ...
BRIAN MCKNIGHT

I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times th...
TONY DORSETT

So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I ca...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't eve...
DAKOTA JOHNSON

I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obvio...
SACHA BARON COHEN

When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan sai...
DAMIAN WOETZEL

I'm not going anywhere. You can print that wherever you want to. I'm here and I'm a Spur...
TIM DUNCAN

Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to ...
NATE DIAZ

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad t...
ANDRE AGASSI

When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just g...
EDDIE KAYE THOMAS

I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Th...
JACK NICHOLSON

You know, I started this process of being a football player and I'm going to make it to the NFL ...
ROBERT GRIFFIN III

I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm go...
SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR

I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.
SANDRA BULLOCK

When you challenge me, I like my chances in a fistfight. On the field, I use the same approach. I...
GARY SHEFFIELD

I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I a...
RACHEL ROY

I'm not going to change; I'm going to keep grinding. I'm going to do all I can to win.
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD

Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others...
CECELIA AHERN

I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're ge...
MARION BARRY

If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether ...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense ...
WILLEM DAFOE

I go out and date people, but I don't have that relationship, where you know, I'm like Jenni...
MISSY ELLIOTT

I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what...
JACK MCBRAYER

I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scr...
PARKER STEVENSON

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't k...
MAYA ANGELOU

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to...
RIDLEY SCOTT

I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, a...
CAMILLA BELLE

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There'...
EMINEM

I'm going to move on and do other things. My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.
AHMED BEST

I'm just having fun. I go in the studio, and I have no idea what I'm going to do, what I'...
MARTIN GARRIX

Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother ...
JULIA GLASS

My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'...
GARY CLARK, JR.

I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay a...
ANDY RODDICK

The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am wha...
ELIZABETH WARREN

I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own sc...
BARRY BONDS

I always go for that live, honest feel when I'm going for that first rhythm track. I'll neve...
DIMEBAG DARRELL

I don't have too many bad days because I just don't let them happen. When I'm having one...
MATT DALLAS

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about th...
AIMEE MANN

I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if m...
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden a...
DAVID BOWIE

I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little ...
ESTELLA WARREN

When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so ...
COLIN MOCHRIE

The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass'...
BAM MARGERA

I know I'm supposed to say ageing doesn't bother me, then suddenly you're like, 'Yea...
TRACEY EMIN

I'm definitely interested in taking on roles where I don't look like myself. But I'm not...
DOUGLAS BOOTH

In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,'...
HOLLY HUNTER

I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory t...
KIM CLIJSTERS

When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contr...
GAIL DEVERS

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
CARL SANDBURG

What I'm really looking to do is retire undefeated; I'm not sure when the right time to reti...
RONDA ROUSEY

When I'm rapping, like, a turn up song, I'm thinking about what the people want to hear; thi...
TINK

Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn'...
CARLOS PENA, JR.

I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical c...
BERNIE MAC

Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write i...
TAWNI O'DELL

I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm...
JACK WHITEHALL

The more successful I got, the more scared I got. My name was all over Google. I had a Wikipedia pag...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing, and I'm having fun, then just continue to do...
SELENA GOMEZ

It doesn't matter how much polite self-deprecating fluff you have on the outside if you don'...
REBECCA HALL

I understand I'm a sinner. I'm not perfect, and I need a Savior, and that I'm not going ...
MATT HOLLIDAY

At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with ...
CHRISTINE QUINN

I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that p...
LOUIS C. K.

On 'Late Night,' it's like we're all in on the joke. That's what I wanted it to ...
JIMMY FALLON

I've only had success when I'm not trying to. It's that weird thing where if you're ...
MIKE POSNER

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I...
JESSE VENTURA

I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she...
WILL.I.AM

I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm t...
BILLY PORTER

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