Watching people party is cool, but I don't love watching people get super-duper trashed and annoying. I feel protected behind my booth - away from the madness, but a part of it too.
If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.
I've come to a much more controlled idea about death and loss, but I don't think it's possible to come to that much more controlled idea until you've gone through the crazy part. . . I don't mean that I'm controlled. I mean that I gave up the idea that I had control. That's the new control.
The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.
The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left
Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies
In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.
Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.
Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
I don't think I have a favorite chess move, other than checkmate, because each move is part of a combination of other moves. Just like I don't have a favorite piece, because they all work together. I mean, I love myself; I am the king on the board, but other pieces do different things and they all work together, so it's not one particular move unless it's checkmate because usually there's an answer. You know, chess is about questions and answers.
I don't really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part.
If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.
So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.
If a good actor wants a role, they'll do whatever it takes to get the part. Directors are the same. We do 'meetings', not auditions: that tells you a whole lot more about an actor, too.
All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.
I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough. . . People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job.
