T. J. Stiles Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
-
For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
-
I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
-
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
-
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
-
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
-
I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
-
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
-
There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
-
As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
-
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
-
I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
-
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
-
Netflix is something I watch.
-
My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
-
My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
-
I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
-
There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
-
I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
-
No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
-
If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.
-
Personally, when I go to Tulum, I prefer to be near the action but not in the midst of it.
-
I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.
-
We need to have great wealth and we need to have the critics of great wealth.
