Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.
Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.
You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.
Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
Okay, Libya. President Obama supported the uprising, correct?. . . No, that's a different one. I've got to go back, got all this stuff twirling around in my head.
What I had found after the success of Karate Kid II is that an actor basically needs to - a primary requirement on my part as how I view as actor is you have to create a background, you have to create a history of that character and place her into the script that you're reading and carry on forward because you don't know how the future unfolds. This is what storytelling is you place a certain set of circumstances with a certain set of characters and you see what unfolds after an event happens.
I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.