Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the setups in private and quiet. In one sense, it's about protecting yourself; in another sense, it's about always being open to surprise, even from the set, because there may be some detail that you hadn't noticed. I think this is crucial. There are many pictures that seem good in so many ways except one: They lack a sense of surprise, they've never left the page.
Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.
In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.
My television is the tabernacle.
Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur.
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.
A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.
I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled into material being by their own imperative to be born, via the offices of those willing servants of discipline, imagination and inspiration whom we call artists.
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.
Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners.
There's a lot of me in it. But the character is more egotistical. I'm also egotistical, but not the way the character is. This guy is successful, he has everything, but his wife has left him. The most important value - love - is missing. What is wrong with this institution called 'marriage'? What is wrong with this institution called 'the pursuit of happiness'?
What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees
In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of all sorts.
For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration.
I love Pinterest, so I got a little inspiration from there - I'm obsessed with cookies.
Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about them.
The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God.