Ernest Hemingway Quotes
I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)
Quotes to Explore
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.
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I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'
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I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.
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Sometimes as a boy, you really want to feel older and mature.
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Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
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Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on.
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I try not to read too much because what ends up happening is that you ignore the nice reviews and you just focus on the bad reviews. A negative lesson is learned seven times deeper than a positive reinforcement.
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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)
