A lot of people just ask me about how I can do small budgets and big budgets, but many actors do both.… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The monsters act out our rage. They act on their worst impulses, which is appealing to a certain part of us. They… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“There's an old Talmudic belief that you build a fence around an impulse. If that's not good enough, you build a fence… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however, — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do… — Robert Collyer Copy Share Image
There's a difference between hot women and beautiful women. Hot women are everywhere; they abound. They are beautified, not beautiful. Beautiful women,… — Zan Perrion Copy Share Image
My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is a mistake - as so many over-centralized socialist societies have discovered - to try to eliminate money as an incentive.… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Dieting is odious and can require years of determination and sacrifice. I entirely understand the impulse to say, 'Screw it,' and have… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all… — Mike White Copy Share Image
Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff. — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work… — Judith Wright Copy Share Image
Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to… — Kristin Kreuk Copy Share Image
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