Virginia Woolf Quotes
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Quotes to Explore
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
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I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
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Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.
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If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.
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When you trick people into laughing at themselves, that's wit. If you don't laugh at yourself, everything becomes heavy.
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No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
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So I wanted to write a play that put some thoughts and feelings in the air about the miracle and the mystery and that alluded to deep and unknown forces. But then really just have people going to the store and fixing the sink and going through the normal things of looking for love and getting up in the morning. Because that's how we live.
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
