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The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about.
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.
I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.
There cannot be love without trust and there cannot be trust unless we take the responsibility to act in a way that people can trust us.
That's the new picture of the good life that I want to paint - living the way that God created us to live. That's what the good life is.
In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.
The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.
What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.
To me, racist jokes are not funny. I am politically correct, in a weird way. I like to push the boundaries that are politically correct.
I stand in my own way on a daily basis. I don't know if this is something I will ever overcome completely, and I'm oddly okay with that.
I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way.
Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead.
The way I feel about you will never change. Of course I love you—and there's nothing you can do about it!” “That's all I needed to hear.
I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone.
My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.
There are a lot of movies I feel good about. It was a great experience that I was lucky enough to be there in it. That's the way I feel.
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283
By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.
Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.
Don't worry he tells me tenderly. It doesn't matter who you've been, who you are, or who you become. I'm with you every step of the way.
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever, the way of his future desires.
All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.
When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.
Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.
Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.' (That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)
Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.
How did you get in?" "I move in mysterious ways." "God moves in mysterious ways. You move like lightening-here one moment, gone the next.
One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who you always have been.
I've got five months of aggression saved up, and I'll try and use that in a positive manner. I'll be aggressive, but in a controlled way.
But I'm not any better at relationships than you are. We'll find our way together, even if we're fumbling around in the dark for a while.
What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest
I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.
Personally, I do movies the way I cook. I put in what I like, in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.
You can't say to someone with a brain like Morse, This is the way you do it, regardless of the circumstances; this is the way it is done.
JIBO isn't an appliance, it's a companion, one that can interact and react with its human owners in ways that delight instead of disturb.
It [film-making] really just has to do with my own ghosts and phantoms. And I have to say, in the end, it's just my way of seeing things.
You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the way you ought to be going.
A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.
In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.
Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.
You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.
I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.
Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.