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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.
The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.
I think it’s very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.
When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician’s music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career… I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.
Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.
It’s very hard to imagine the phrase ‘consumer society’ used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.
Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it’s not part of a sensible way of living. It’s a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn’t think so.
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
Frankly I’m fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
I’ve always been suspicious of TV, I’ve always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
After all, is football a game or a religion?
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
I like ‘Bewitched’ off the first album because it’s one of the happiest songs I’ve ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.
Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.
I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn’t expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
If we think we have ours and don’t owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
It’s amazing what sleep does for your looks.
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
I’m never afraid to try something if I think it’s funny. And I know I’ll regret it if I don’t.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
If you’re curious, London’s an amazing place.
Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
I love to write poetry.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.