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Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.
The more comfortable you are in front of the camera the more you can emote well. If you are confident then 90% game is won.
When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion.
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.
I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.
Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.
Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear
Roses. Wolf mutts. Tributes. Frosted Dolphins. Friends. Mockingjays. Stylists. Me. Everything screams in my dreams tonight.
My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.
Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.
I swear if you cry, I'll kill you here and now.' Cinna just smiles. 'Had a damp morning?' 'You could wring me out.' I reply
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.
To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.
Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.
As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.
Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?
The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.
I don't like what you`re doing, but I won't insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today
When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year.... Today should always be our most wonderful day.
The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.
The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.
Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.
I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.
Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.
It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.
Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.
serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.
The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.
There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
It's a challenge for any writer to write beyond what he knows. You get material, adapt it, and do the best you can with it.
Producers have a tendency to put you in a pigeonhole: 'What does this white, middle-aged preppy know about 1960s Kingston?'
A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.
Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.