Emily Maitlis Quotes

I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

I do research, I read books. I write down everything that I intend to say and this may take several hours. Then when I am out there preaching, I do not carry notes.

I'm a planner, an organizer. I write things down because you can visually check them off and see progress. Writing things down is a lost art. I've got sticky notes all over my apartment.

I definitely take notes, but I feel like sometimes if I take too many notes, it kind of bogs down my mind a little bit. So, I just write down stuff that I need to remember for the game.

I should have written that down. - Dilbert

Moving and motion tends to make things pop up. But things pop up for me, really, at just odd intervals or at random times that aren't really convenient, so I'm a big fan of the voice memo recorder on my phone. That's the only way I can remember things.

I am a sponge. I don't write things down.

Use the environment to remind you of what needs to be done. If you're afraid you'll forget to buy milk on the way home, put an empty milk carton on the seat next to you in the car or in the backpack you carry to work on the subway.

I have 17 alarms that go off every day to remind me not to have mom brain.

I find it very boring to keep on talking about myself! Which is why I find giving interviews also very boring.

When I was younger, I'd be walking down the street and suddenly panic because I had a cool idea and no way of getting it down - I'd have to sing it all the way home. Now I can hum it into my phone.

Because I come from the place of interviewing, I know how to answer a question giving you what you need to hear and not a minute more.

I'm not good at Blackberrys, cell phones, or packing.

Brain extenders are anything that get information out of our heads and into the physical world: calendars, key hooks by the front door, note pads, 'to do' lists.

I don't like to do a lot of interviews.

I think sometimes people get distracted in interviews.

I think the good ones, the interviews and the promos people remember, those are improv.

I get quite fearful about interviews, so I sought advice from other actors.

A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.