Thomas Hobbes Quotes
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Quotes to Explore
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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I'd had 12 different job titles in publishing before I typed 'The End' at the bottom of a manuscript page. I thought the manuscript was in great shape; I was pretty proud of myself. Then I sent it to some publishing friends, and they tore it apart.
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My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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The chamber where the good man meets his fateIs privileg’d beyond the common walkOf virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!
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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
