I never grew up on Jodeci. I never grew up on things like that 'cause my dad was a preacher, and he kind of kept us away from music like that.
A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.
Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
I never wanted to be a performer. I suppose I was precocious, really.
I was a bit of a backstage baby, but I wasn't at all precocious, and there was never a light bulb moment when I decided to go on the stage.
I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.
I never had a preconceived notion about what I should do or what I should take up… I am not that intelligent.
Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.
I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable. That's the fun of it: discovering what's next. I'm often surprised by plot developments I would not have dreamed of starting out, but that, in the course of the writing, come to seem inevitable.
I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
Never make predictions, especially about the future.
Thinking things like, 'I will never get hired for this job,' or 'Nobody ever listens to me,' can alter your behavior in a way that makes those predictions come true.
I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
Inside me there are two people. One is a very aggressive - I want to win; I won the Premier League, but now I want to win on Saturday. I want to win next season - and is never satisfied.
