Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Wipe out the imagination. Stop pulling the strings. Confine thyself to the present. ...Divide and distribute every object into the causal formal and the material. ...Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.
Quotes to Explore
-
With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
-
It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
-
I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.
-
I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
-
Get rid of the preferences and the special deductions and the loopholes... and invest in getting the tax rate to a competitive level so we stop seeing companies move off shore.
-
I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
-
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
-
For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the roof of the Contemporary Hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve 2000 watching fireworks explode over every amusement park in Orlando. It was a magical way to celebrate the millennial, and a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas present.
-
I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.
-
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
-
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
-
You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
-
In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.
-
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
-
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
-
Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
-
I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
-
'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.
-
When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
-
My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
-
Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.
-
Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.
-
I don't try to justify myself or defend myself. I've always done what I had to. She should know for herself that I love her, that I've loved her always, always. Those years you can't replace by words, though. After years and years, words get weaker and weaker.
-
Wipe out the imagination. Stop pulling the strings. Confine thyself to the present. ...Divide and distribute every object into the causal formal and the material. ...Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.
