Adam Phillips Quotes
Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
Quotes to Explore
-
I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
-
What's great about HBO is they just care about quality. They care about the brand. They're not worried about ratings; obviously they want people to buy subscriptions, but they just want people to be into what's on HBO.
-
It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.
-
In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'
-
I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.
-
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
-
I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
-
I'll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa.
-
Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real.
-
There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.
-
Towards the end of the military service, I had to make what I assume has been the most important decision in my career: to start a residency in clinical medicine, in surgery, which was my favorite choice, or to enroll into graduate school and start a career in scientific research. It was clear to me that I was heading for graduate school.
-
You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.
-
Children ought not to be victims of the choices adults make for them.
-
Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.
-
Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.
-
Sometimes Sarah [Chalke] starts to talk about Iraq or whatever and she gets all excited, like I actually give a crap what she's saying. Come on, she's a woman. But still, it's very cute.
-
The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal.
-
No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.
-
I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.
-
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
-
Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
