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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.

Usually my ideas are small.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.

In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.

Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

On 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing.'