People Quotes
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I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.
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Blessings come in packages of two. With every blessing is a test. So don't ever envy people who seem to have more than you. The more blessings, the more tests. And the greater the blessing, the harder the test.
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Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.
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I'm most interested in people who've lived life in the extreme, which is what draws me to crime fiction.
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I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.
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All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?
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It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.
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I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli. There's this way I feel so close to so many people there, but I always feel like I'm staring through the glass. And in a way, having this really thin piece of glass between me and this place is incredibly useful for me as a writer, because I'm just so hyper-aware of it. I could take a walk in San Francisco and probably notice a third of the things that I would notice in Israel, because I'm just attuned to everything when I'm there.
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There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.
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The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.
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Don't feel you have to stick to plans, because something better might come up; and try to blend in, because you see more. I've learnt that the principles of moving around a big city are the same everywhere; only the people and streets are different.
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Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they are in paying attention to the shlumpy diversity of defensible values that people actually have, and then trying to figure out how these might be negotiated in the life of an agent or community.
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I am a firm believer in reincarnation for people who either have more work to do or have so much debt to pay back that they have to be here.
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The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
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Censorship makes me really angry. I even hate it when people censor themselves.
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About a boy who had a beautiful heart, and how that boy could make plants grow and how he could make people say good things—even people who liked to say only bad things.
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No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.
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I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.
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I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
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In terms of security and privacy, what people care about the most is the privacy of their messages.
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Things have got to add up to 100 points. The script is part of it, the character is part of it, the people I'm working with is the third part of it - and any combination of the three has got to add up to 100 points.
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There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's how I hope to communicate truth to people.
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How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.
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People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.
