Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!
- Lee Child
There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right.
- Jodi Picoult
If we get it right, there need not be losers.
- John Anderson
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
- Oprah Winfrey
Half of them kept repeating my name, trying to get it right, while the other half laughed.
But they were harmless. Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party: Not looking to fight. Not looking to score. Just looking to get drunk and laugh.
I remember those guys. Like the mascots of the party.
Clay! Whatcha doon here? Bah-ha-ha-ha!
- Jay Asher
Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.
- David Baldacci
Coffee is coffee to me, I don't mind what country it comes from, who picks it or under what conditions, and I really don't give a damn who serves it or what they're getting paid as long as they get it right.
- Colin Bateman
Our focus is on ensuring America has the strongest economy in the world for the next 100 years and to do that, we need to get to the role of the Federal Reserve and we need to get it right.
- Kevin Brady
I think it is necessary to sit down and work for years and years to get it right. I think that's the main thing, that's what the emphasis has got to be on: individual work.
- Larry Brown
When it comes to relationships; sometimes you get it right, and sometimes it gets you right.
- R L Byrd
I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.
- Louis C K
You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right
- Jack Canfield
He curled his finger under her chin as he rasped, "I'm goin' tae get it right this time, you know."
"I believe that, Scot." She gazed up at him with all the love she felt. "That's why you're still the dark horse I'm betting on.
- Kresley Cole
my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right.
- Pat Conroy
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
- Robert Cormier
Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right.
- Judi Dench
As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving meastounded, amazed and most of all, alive.
- Sarah Dessen
It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.
- Sarah Dessen
She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers, even as she thinks too much and moves too cautiously, she doesn't always have to get it right. It's okay to look back, even as you move forward.
- Jennifer E Smith
You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.
- Robert Duvall
I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.
- Jane Elliot
I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.
- Colin Firth
I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.
- Peter Gabriel
The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.
- Neil Gaiman
The moment that you feel, just possibly, you are walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind, and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself...That is the moment, you might be starting to get it right.
- Neil Gaiman
The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
- Michael Gerber
The supporting thing can be harder to pop in and out of. The hardest thing is the people who have to come in and play, say, the bartender for a day - that's a lot harder than playing the lead role. You have to pop in and get it right. It's a lot of pressure to just pop in there and fit in and find your footing really fast.
- Paul Giamatti
Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.
- Lindsey Graham
Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.
- Adrian Grenier
I was trying to be a better man, Perry. For you." I shifted in my seat. "Dex..." "And I'll keep trying," he quickly said, voice low and somber. "Until I get it right.
- Karina Halle
She's a wolf. Get it right, crap for brains. Tink's knickers, you have got to be the stupidest lunker I've ever lit on.
- Kim Harrison
You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!
- J K Rowling
This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.
- Diana Wynne Jones
Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right.
- Donald Judd
You don't have a lot of time; you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.
- Margot Kidder
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
- Billie Jean King
I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.
- Frank Langella
I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.
- Alan Lee
The only way to maximize group creativityto make the whole more than the sum of its partsis to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly corrected by the group, you're less worried about perfecting your contribution, which leads to a more candid conversation. We can only get it right when we talk about what we got wrong.
- Jonah Lehrer
It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so acting her was just natural. And if I had got too nervous I'd have done terribly.
- Evanna Lynch
Olgun! Wake up!"
Her mind was filled with a sense of self-righteous and
vaguely drowsy protest.
"Sure you weren't, she needled at him. You were just
practicing snoring, so you'd be sure to get it right later on,
yes?"
Olgun's response very strongly resembled an indignant
snort.
- Ari Marmell
You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially.
- Mary Stuart Masterson
You know I can never stay away from you." She reached up with both hands and pinched his cheeks, hard. "You're just so darn cute," she said, pursing up her lips.
"I'm studly baby, get it right.
- R L Mathewson
I don't care if we don't sleep at all tonight,
Let's just fix this whole thing now.
I swear to God we're gonna get it right
If you lay your weapon down
Red wine and ambien
You're talking shit again
It's heartbreak warfare.
- John Mayer
I swear to God we're gonna get it right
- John Mayer
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead
I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.
- Stephanie Mills
I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional.
- Alex Morrison
I think they do have to get it right in Sierra Leone. There has to be something in there now to establish confidence, to stabilize the situation, and then to move to some sort of political negotiations.
- Alex Morrison
Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on."
"Then why bother playing?" I asked. It was a whisper, this question.
"Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right... I dunno. Why do you play?"
"Because," I whispered, "it's who I am."
Sounds like a good reason to me.
- Catherine Gilbert Murdock
No one will ever blame you for trying to get it right.
- Lorii Myers
It was weird because my first couple stories had been so easy. Now it was like, the more you did it, the harder it became. But in another way, it was addicting. It was like gambling, every time you'd start another one you'd think this time I'm going to get it right....
- Blake Nelson
When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.
- Phil Ochs
I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.
- Richard Pryor
I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
- Richard Pryor
It's been a while and God, you're so sexy I can't even breathe." His voice shook to match the rest of him. "If I f#ck this up, I'll get it right, Ror. I promise. Just bear with me, okay?
- Cari Quinn
Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.
- Trevor Rabin
We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
- Amy Tan
Let's nail it down, let's get it right.
- Frank Reynolds
I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.
- Faith Ringgold
I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.
- Bryan Robson
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.
- Philip Roth
The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.
- Gus Van Sant
Don't get it right, just get it written.
- James Thurber
To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
- Jessica Savitch
You don't have to get it right the first time.
- Barbara Sher
Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
- Martin C Smith
There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.
- Mary Steenburgen
You see, when I was growing up I watched my mother battle with cancer...she died when I was 15 after going through five years of treatment...and during all that time you could see that the treatment was like torture to her...It seemed like the doctors were pumping her full of chemicals just to prolong the suffering...so when I saw the chance to make a difference, I was determined to get it right!
- Fwah Storm
Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.
- Stuart Townsend
And if I get it right everybody will be singing along, yeah
And when they see you on the street they'll say,
'Hey, ain't you the girl in that song?
- Keith Urban
What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.
- Matthew Vaughn
But, no, I don't think there will be any kind of problem as far as setting up to be competitive, but you've got to get it right if you want to be the first one across the line.
- Dan Wheldon
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.
- Robert Wyatt
- Lee Child
There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right.
- Jodi Picoult
If we get it right, there need not be losers.
- John Anderson
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
- Oprah Winfrey
Half of them kept repeating my name, trying to get it right, while the other half laughed.
But they were harmless. Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party: Not looking to fight. Not looking to score. Just looking to get drunk and laugh.
I remember those guys. Like the mascots of the party.
Clay! Whatcha doon here? Bah-ha-ha-ha!
- Jay Asher
Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.
- David Baldacci
Coffee is coffee to me, I don't mind what country it comes from, who picks it or under what conditions, and I really don't give a damn who serves it or what they're getting paid as long as they get it right.
- Colin Bateman
Our focus is on ensuring America has the strongest economy in the world for the next 100 years and to do that, we need to get to the role of the Federal Reserve and we need to get it right.
- Kevin Brady
I think it is necessary to sit down and work for years and years to get it right. I think that's the main thing, that's what the emphasis has got to be on: individual work.
- Larry Brown
When it comes to relationships; sometimes you get it right, and sometimes it gets you right.
- R L Byrd
I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.
- Louis C K
You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right
- Jack Canfield
He curled his finger under her chin as he rasped, "I'm goin' tae get it right this time, you know."
"I believe that, Scot." She gazed up at him with all the love she felt. "That's why you're still the dark horse I'm betting on.
- Kresley Cole
my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right.
- Pat Conroy
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
- Robert Cormier
Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right.
- Judi Dench
As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving meastounded, amazed and most of all, alive.
- Sarah Dessen
It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.
- Sarah Dessen
She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers, even as she thinks too much and moves too cautiously, she doesn't always have to get it right. It's okay to look back, even as you move forward.
- Jennifer E Smith
You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.
- Robert Duvall
I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.
- Jane Elliot
I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.
- Colin Firth
I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.
- Peter Gabriel
The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.
- Neil Gaiman
The moment that you feel, just possibly, you are walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind, and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself...That is the moment, you might be starting to get it right.
- Neil Gaiman
The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
- Michael Gerber
The supporting thing can be harder to pop in and out of. The hardest thing is the people who have to come in and play, say, the bartender for a day - that's a lot harder than playing the lead role. You have to pop in and get it right. It's a lot of pressure to just pop in there and fit in and find your footing really fast.
- Paul Giamatti
Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.
- Lindsey Graham
Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.
- Adrian Grenier
I was trying to be a better man, Perry. For you." I shifted in my seat. "Dex..." "And I'll keep trying," he quickly said, voice low and somber. "Until I get it right.
- Karina Halle
She's a wolf. Get it right, crap for brains. Tink's knickers, you have got to be the stupidest lunker I've ever lit on.
- Kim Harrison
You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!
- J K Rowling
This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.
- Diana Wynne Jones
Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right.
- Donald Judd
You don't have a lot of time; you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.
- Margot Kidder
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
- Billie Jean King
I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.
- Frank Langella
I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.
- Alan Lee
The only way to maximize group creativityto make the whole more than the sum of its partsis to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly corrected by the group, you're less worried about perfecting your contribution, which leads to a more candid conversation. We can only get it right when we talk about what we got wrong.
- Jonah Lehrer
It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so acting her was just natural. And if I had got too nervous I'd have done terribly.
- Evanna Lynch
Olgun! Wake up!"
Her mind was filled with a sense of self-righteous and
vaguely drowsy protest.
"Sure you weren't, she needled at him. You were just
practicing snoring, so you'd be sure to get it right later on,
yes?"
Olgun's response very strongly resembled an indignant
snort.
- Ari Marmell
You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially.
- Mary Stuart Masterson
You know I can never stay away from you." She reached up with both hands and pinched his cheeks, hard. "You're just so darn cute," she said, pursing up her lips.
"I'm studly baby, get it right.
- R L Mathewson
I don't care if we don't sleep at all tonight,
Let's just fix this whole thing now.
I swear to God we're gonna get it right
If you lay your weapon down
Red wine and ambien
You're talking shit again
It's heartbreak warfare.
- John Mayer
I swear to God we're gonna get it right
- John Mayer
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead
I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.
- Stephanie Mills
I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional.
- Alex Morrison
I think they do have to get it right in Sierra Leone. There has to be something in there now to establish confidence, to stabilize the situation, and then to move to some sort of political negotiations.
- Alex Morrison
Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on."
"Then why bother playing?" I asked. It was a whisper, this question.
"Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right... I dunno. Why do you play?"
"Because," I whispered, "it's who I am."
Sounds like a good reason to me.
- Catherine Gilbert Murdock
No one will ever blame you for trying to get it right.
- Lorii Myers
It was weird because my first couple stories had been so easy. Now it was like, the more you did it, the harder it became. But in another way, it was addicting. It was like gambling, every time you'd start another one you'd think this time I'm going to get it right....
- Blake Nelson
When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.
- Phil Ochs
I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.
- Richard Pryor
I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
- Richard Pryor
It's been a while and God, you're so sexy I can't even breathe." His voice shook to match the rest of him. "If I f#ck this up, I'll get it right, Ror. I promise. Just bear with me, okay?
- Cari Quinn
Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.
- Trevor Rabin
We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
- Amy Tan
Let's nail it down, let's get it right.
- Frank Reynolds
I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.
- Faith Ringgold
I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.
- Bryan Robson
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.
- Philip Roth
The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.
- Gus Van Sant
Don't get it right, just get it written.
- James Thurber
To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
- Jessica Savitch
You don't have to get it right the first time.
- Barbara Sher
Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
- Martin C Smith
There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.
- Mary Steenburgen
You see, when I was growing up I watched my mother battle with cancer...she died when I was 15 after going through five years of treatment...and during all that time you could see that the treatment was like torture to her...It seemed like the doctors were pumping her full of chemicals just to prolong the suffering...so when I saw the chance to make a difference, I was determined to get it right!
- Fwah Storm
Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.
- Stuart Townsend
And if I get it right everybody will be singing along, yeah
And when they see you on the street they'll say,
'Hey, ain't you the girl in that song?
- Keith Urban
What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.
- Matthew Vaughn
But, no, I don't think there will be any kind of problem as far as setting up to be competitive, but you've got to get it right if you want to be the first one across the line.
- Dan Wheldon
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.
- Robert Wyatt