I try to be alert and available. I try to be available for life to happen to me.
Stories happen to those who tell them.
My father taught me about having principles and how to treat people with respect. My aunt also taught me how to keep a perspective on everything that happens to you. So you learn to be humble and not take your success for granted.
Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.
What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L. A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.
I'm Larry David. I happen to enjoy wearing women's panties.
Attraction happens when you feel important, valued, appreciated and wanted.
Often one is more attached to the journey than to the discovery. . . because the journey happens in the mind. . . the discovery happens in the heart.
To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).
If you are always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in.
I realize that as quick as you go up, you can really come down that quick. And we've seen it happen with others.
For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.
It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.
The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.
Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.
But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.
What happens, matters. Maybe only to us but it matters.
The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.
Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.
Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.