Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

To those who accuse us of being populists, we respond that if this means listening to the people, then yes, we are!

My interest is to establish an agenda of engagement with Mexicans that will respond to Mexicans' most urgent needs.

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.

Executives need ample flexibility to respond to the market. That means both reducing costs and increasing innovation.

The financial instability and sometimes insecurity that families feel, deeply motivates how they respond politically.

I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.

Our American experiment deserves an advocate, and the American people respond best to inspiration, not fear-mongering.

You're gonna have pretty bad defeats. But you've gotta be able to respond and come back in and compete the next night.

In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity.

I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.

Approach your business partners with concepts that they can get their heads around, and try to respond to their needs.

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.

The frustrating thing about 'Friday Night Lights' is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.

If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.

I knew that I would be making music for my whole life; as far as how many people respond to it, you can't plan for that.

We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

I always respond to characters who have depth. I'm always interested in those people. They're the ones who surprise you.

I do respond to the ideas behind the Eurovision and 'The X Factor,' but they're both so limiting and very, very shallow.

Oil is largely our energy past, and Keystone does little to respond to the actual challenges and opportunities before us.

Hunger has no ideology. It does not respond to party or to rant. Hunger, in short, is not a red state/blue state problem.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

You always hope an audience will respond to something you've done, but there's no way of knowing whether or not they will.

Young people may be stupid at times, but they respond to the truth when it is present, and for them, KRS-One is the truth!

It's important to recognise every player is different in their own characteristics, personality, and what they respond to.

To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.

I know of a few actors who have Psoriasis but stay mum about it. I don't respond to those who do. I just smile and move on.

Juventus can afford to spend a great deal of money for new players. But Napoli can always respond by playing magnificently.

Don't respond to haters' taunts - even politely. Ignore them. If nobody takes their bait, most will grow bored and move on.

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?

Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

Every Crohn's and colitis patient is different, and they all respond to different things. That's the craziest thing about it.

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.

I watch a lot of sports. One of the reasons I watch is to see how these guys handle pressure, how they respond to situations.

When you go through really hard times, you really figure out who you are, how you respond to things, and how things affect you.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

If I am elected to Congress, I will put the interests of our community first, and I will actively seek input and respond to it.

Wrestling is like improv. You have to feel and sense what the other person is going to do next and respond faster than they do.

I think if people ask, 'How is Marion Bartoli?', they will always respond, 'She's a nice person.' That's what I'm most proud of.

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