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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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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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.
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My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
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Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.
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I love cooking. I love having friends around.
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
