While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.
Through what I have witnessed and documented, with proper interventions you can break those cycles. When I made the first film on this subject, 'Paper Tigers,' kids were going off the cliff. But then there was intervention, and they won't go off the cliff.
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.
I'm really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.
I'm a crumbled up piece of paper lying here, 'cause I remember it all too well
If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer many paper cuts.
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
I suppose I'll be remembered as dull. Timid. No one ever knew me. People came. They went. I was kind, I think. Not sympathetic, but considerate of others. I always gave up my place in line. I loaned out pencils and paper, or let people take them from me. I never reported a sexual assault.
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
With Erin [from Paper Girls], I wanted to show what she might look like when she's 40, and I wanted it to feel authentic. In terms of inspiration I ended up using my wife for a lot of it. Just to kind of to give me almost an anchor so that I would be invested in making this character real.
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
Hillary Clinton wrote an Op-Ed for a paper in Iowa about her plans to help the middle class. Middle-class Americans said, 'Why didn't you just say that in a speech?' and she said, 'Because I charge $200,000 for a speech. '
If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to. " Very often, very quickly you forget about it.
Berkshire has the lowest turnover of any major company in the U. S. The Walton family owns more of Wal-Mart than Buffett owns of Berkshire, so it isn't because of large holdings. It's because we have a really unusual shareholder body that thinks of itself as owners and not holders of little pieces of paper.
Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably nothing was ever more bleak. This is probably the very height of lonesomeness. He is one person and he is alone
You could paper the globe with evidence that there are demonstrable cognitive and physical disparities between what are crudely called human "races. " But you could fit all the evidence of innate equality on your pinkie fingernail with room to spare.
Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.
"There is love. " Someone wrote that for me on a piece of paper in an airport when I probably looked like I really needed to hear it. I did. We all need the reminder sometimes.
Every time I work on a project, I keep every little piece of paper.
I'm like toilet paper, toothpaste and certain amenities - I'm proven to be good. I've still got 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years left.