Making films has never just been a job to me, it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going, it's what I do, it gives life purpose.
Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.
I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don't believe that we're supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God's blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that's how God leads us.
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
I also believe that upending ingrained ideas about what assault is a gun to the head, a stranger, a parking lot and what consent looks like a woman who gives a no really means yes is very messy. And part of the messiness is some students - and yes, usually these are liberal students - over-determining the definition of assault.
The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.
God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
The only science that gives purpose to every other science is the science of religion - the science of our happy relationship with, and our providential dependence on God and our neighbor.
The person who gives selflessly in this lifetime immediately goes into a better state of mind. That is instant karma.
always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.
That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.
Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.
Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Jesus Christ's mercy and power indwells us and gives us the strength to make a positive difference.
Encaustic gives markmaking a dimension. . . additivesubtractive.
But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.
