We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.
You're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it.
Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin.
We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.
Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.
Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting
It was also a new role for me as a writer, because I wanted to just be there to serve Sam. I recognized that this picture would be "a Sam Fuller movie," and I was just trying, in whatever way I could, to help him get what he wanted.
How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.
I used to get pissed every day. I would wake up and pick up my phone and look at the alerts, and it's like, "What am I gonna read today?" But then I realized I needed to try and be as grateful as I could possibly be. What we're in need of is a greater leadership that's inclusive and truly hears the people and doesn't have a knee-jerk reaction out of anger. Scenarios like this, while divisive, also clarify what we really want in the future. And we'll have a chance in a few years to cast another vote, and we'll see where the American people are when that time comes.
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Every single painting is different. I'm always trying to figure out what I'm interested in. Usually when I go through and I make the collages or the images for ideas that I want to paint, it's like an Ouija board. Each painting I do is trying to understand what the hell I'm looking at, or want to look at.
I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to a place where loving someone because they have a gentle smile and a friendly hello is as easy as it once was.
Very interestingly in a movement that I call now the hijab lobby, sadly promulgated by women that some of us refer to as Muslim mean girls and their friends, are trying to put out this meme that we are denying women their choice.
I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.
When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.
Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.
I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.
No one walks so safely as one who walks humbly and harmlessly with great love and great faith. For such a person gets through to the good in others (and there is good in everyone), and therefore cannot be harmed. This works between individuals, it works between groups and it would work between nations if nations had the courage to try it.
I'm hard-nosed about luck. . . If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.
