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Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.
The more someone talks, the more they reveal about themselves and the more they reveal about the way something has affected them.
I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.
I want to retreat back to living off the land and just being in nature, experiencing life in the most pure, natural way possible.
If you refuse to set a bold goal for your financial future, you're really setting a goal anyway: To keep things the way they are.
I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.
Once firms had to pay to pollute, they became incredibly inventive at figuring out cheaper ways to eliminate their SO2 emissions.
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.
The only way to go beyond your fears is to grow beyond them and that always means challenging, overcoming and learning from them.
Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.
Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.
They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.
One of the ways we can bear the image of God well is to see things in others they don't see themselves and call that out of them.
The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.
At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.
When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.
I have met a great many people on their way towards God and I wonder why they have chosen to look for him rather than themselves.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.
I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.
My aim has been to expound Scripture and to expound Scripture in such a way that I do not set one Scripture over against another.
There are more short-term goals right now the way I see it, that I feel are more important right now than maybe the 1,000 points.
I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'.' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life.
I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.
We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.
Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.
Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.
The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.
In some seasons, Jesus asks us, “Will you still love Me when things are not happening the way that you thought they would happen?
... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.
The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.
When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
[S]tudies show that one of the best ways to lift your mood is to engineer an easy success, such as tackling a long-delayed chore.
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.
They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.
She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.
Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.
Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.
The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.
Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.
Our tax plan by the way shows the vast, vast majority of Americans, upwards of 96 percent can fill out their taxes on a postcard.
Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.
It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.