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What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.
In the midst of global recession, in the face of uncertainty about what's going to happen next, film looks for inspiration to real people.
Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.
If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.
I find inspiration for my line of jewelry from traveling and from my lifestyle. I have three collections: New York, Palm Beach, and Paris.
The unity of the Bible is one of the wonderful proofs of the inspiration of God's Word- that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.
[I am] not even two bites into breakfast, and there are already nearly 25 sites that are tracking me. I have navigated to a total of four.
This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.
A lot of my inspiration comes from the movies and TV, watching other people doing things that I one day hope to have the opportunity to do.
Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you'll duck soup for the rest of your life
It is not difficult to rebuild a life. All we need is to be aware that we have the same strength we had before, and to use it in our favor.
The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.
Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.
Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.
Face your path with courage, don't be scared of people's criticism. And, above all, don't let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism.
A lot of my pieces have involved teamwork, but hopefully they've inspired people to make things - that inspiration would be a great legacy.
I think watching my mom gave me great inspiration, I wish that had been reinforced more verbally. It would have kept me from a lot of pain.
Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.
Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.
If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can.
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
Our economic competitors ... are eating us for lunch, and we can get in the game or not. We can be at the table, or we can be on the table.
I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.
We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.
The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.
God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
When I have something to work against, it liberates my imagination. I believe very much in authentic inspiration. I'm not about calculation.
If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.
My friends are my inspiration, and all of them are true friends that support me. On a daily basis, I know that I have my friends to rely on.
Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.
First Lady Michelle Obama - I admire her confidence, integrity, intelligence, compassion, and her overall vibe - she is such an inspiration.
One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.
There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.
Those who succeed have a clear, focused picture of their success. The level of success they attain matches the expansiveness of their dreams
A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?"
You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.
The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something.
The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.
Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.
We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And dream about the other side.
[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.
I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence.
Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses.
A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.