George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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Writers are so important.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
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If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
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Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'
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After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.
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My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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The least touchable object in the world is the eye.
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The gun livens things up. The colonized European comes alive, not to the subject and problem of the violence of our circumstances, but because all armed actions subjects the force of circumstances to the force of events.
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It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.
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Putting beauty in your life can be an amazing therapy. I love harmonies and a good melody.
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Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
