John Muir Quotes
Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.
Quotes to Explore
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
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I shop more than most women.
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People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?
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Too often, the elected individuals we put our public trust in disappoint us.
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Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.
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I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.
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I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.
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Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.
