Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.
Quotes to Explore
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
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Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
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I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'
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Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.
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I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
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What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
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When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
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Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it
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The poem is an act beyond paraphrase because what is being said is always inseparable from the way it is being said.
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Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.
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When you dig down and look at the people who are vocal in their criticism of me, it's a small number.
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Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.
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The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.
