You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.
I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.
It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.
[Donald Trump] actually advocated for the actions we took in Libya and urged that [Muamar] Gadhafi be taken out, after actually doing some business with him one time.
The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.
Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible - then some general rescue of the sort I imagined my aunt to have undertaken would be inevitable. For why do our thoughts turn to some gesture of a hand, the fall of a sleeve, some corner of a room on a particular anonymous afternoon, even when we are asleep, and even when we are so old that our thoughts have abandoned other business? What are all these fragments for , if not to be knit up finally?
Laws control the lesser man. . . Right conduct controls the greater one.