If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.
It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.
The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that never actually existed. The Democrats are utopians. They seek to create an America so fair and non-judgmental that life becomes an unbearable series of apologies. Together, the two parties function like giant down comforters, allowing a candidate to disappear into the enveloping softness, protecting them from exposure to the harsh weather of independent thought.
Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring.