There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.
The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
All things tend toward entropy. The whole universe is moving outward, the stars pulling away from one another, God knows what falling through the cracks between them.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
When a rumor doesn't go away it's not a rumor
I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death
I've seen films that have made as much as $100, $200 million, but they're not films. They're images. They're flashes. They're many beautiful images, lots of things to look at. They capture you. But it's not a film. It's not something that involves you in a story. They go to cinema now to be blown away by the effects.
Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive.
Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.
There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.
It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.
You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little.
I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money.
He stares at me, and I don't look away. He isn't a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It's my choice.
The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.
China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second.
No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.