I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.
I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O. K. , look, I've taken some liberties here. " It's just a matter of being open with your readers.
From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems.
Whether it's a sitting president when I was an impeachment manager, or a Republican president who has taken liberties with adherence to the law, to me the standard is the same.
Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
She gave him a wan smile. "And then you came, Eragon. You and Saphira. After hope had deserted me and I was about to be taken to Galbatorix in Uru'baen, a Rider appeared to rescue me. A rider and a dragon!" "And Morzan's son," he said. "Both of Morzan's sons. " "Describe it how you will, it was such an improbable rescue, I occasionally think that I did go mad and that I've imagined everything since.
I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.
I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care. . . There is the smiling depressive which is the biggest time bomb and when they go they usually go with a bang, which was me.
To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.
Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.
The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.
I have struggled to be taken seriously as a female athlete. I have struggled to find my worth outside of winning. I have struggled to accept parts of myself. Now I'm recognizing the beauty in those parts as well as beauty in the times when things didn't go my way.
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.
We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are "news"; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored.
The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
