As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
You can't teach anyone. You can't tell anyone. That's the thing you have to sit down and experience in order for it… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone sits down and thinks, 'I know, I'll be a chick-lit writer.' You write the book that you want… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me. — Louise Fletcher Copy Share Image
Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
On the journey of the warrior-bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what… — Laura San Giacomo Copy Share Image
As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road,… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred.… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
As we weep for what we have lost, and as we grieve for family and friends and we confront the challenge that… — Anna Bligh Copy Share Image
...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
I like a lot of good European films, good - anything really. I'm a big fan of Netflix and I get films… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I had a rule that I would never force the muse in my younger days. I would follow the feeling. I would… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
When you're directing you're kind of interested in the movie and the story and the characters. I just sort of prefer the… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
I think we all felt it on this movie - crew and cast. You never know when you're making a movie... no… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
But there is a process that happens when you're making something, be it a musical or a new play. That process takes… — Joe Mantello Copy Share Image
He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set.… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Don't take anything personally. You're going to come up against a lot and the best thing is to ignore it and don't… — Leslye Headland Copy Share Image
