I tend to prioritize emotional realism above the known laws of time and space, and when you do that, it's inevitable that strange things happen. Which can be quite enjoyable, I think.
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Related I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have ... MINDY KALING I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze ... ALEXIS BLEDEL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The weekend after 'Kimmy' started streaming on Netflix, I did notice a definite difference i... ELLIE KEMPER Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It ... RIHANNA I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. Af... HAROLD PRINCE Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs,... ELLIE GOULDING I actually love Twitter and Instagram. I do think it's so strange to think that 20 years ago, pe... LORDE Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning abou... TWIGGY It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you t... DAMIAN WOETZEL But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which ... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite d... GARY NUMAN I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and ... SAM DONALDSON Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's tha... ADAM MCKAY My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best st... VINCE GILL Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filmi... SEAN BEAN I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. ... WASHED OUT I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to ... LINUS TORVALDS I try and work out as much as I can. When I'm working or travelling, it's tough, but when I&... MALAIKA ARORA KHAN To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You kn... TOBEY MAGUIRE You need to prioritize. If you can't get to everything or do everything, that's okay. JULIE CHEN I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. An... HELENA BONHAM CARTER We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men... RAQUEL WELCH I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend t... BO DEREK Some people have that school of thought where fitness isn't enjoyable, but we're making it e... PAYAL KADAKIA I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scare... CARLI LLOYD I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a... ELLIE GOULDING Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go... PATRICK NESS Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay '... MIKE PETERS I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of... DAVID BERGEN I've learned over the years to appreciate God's timing, and you can't rush things; it... SEVYN STREETER I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I thin... TYSON GAY I think the Netherlands will become one big city at a point. It is inevitable when you live in a cou... THEO JANSEN Technology has changed the fan/actor interaction quite a bit. Now it's really easy to communicat... MISHA COLLINS I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of ... JOHNNY DEPP Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don't think it's necessarily treating people like things. STEPHEN COVEY If therefore you shall be remembered for what you did with what you had more than what you had, use ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you have that amount of concentrated power, bad things tend to happen. MICHAEL SHIFTER I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in ... BRITTANY MURPHY AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to yo... ICE T Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, bec... ROBERT ASPRIN Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some ki... SHARON SALZBERG I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private ... HANNAH WARE You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be ... ERWIN MCMANUS I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the m... ELISABETH HASSELBECK When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things ... KAREN BLIXEN They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your... STEVE EARLE I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stre... MATTHEW MACFADYEN You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's i... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with some... JULIANNE MOORE Well, I think the golden rule I can think of is the fact that you must follow your passion and do so... KUMAR MANGALAM BIRLA Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you'... KEANU REEVES There's a certain time that when somebody asks you a question, you answer them. I don't thin... REGGIE JACKSON I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's univer... ALICIA KEYS I've climbed Stromboli when it's erupting, which is quite a heavy climb: three hours with a ... MICHELLE PAVER I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overvie... RON PERLMAN I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in ... RUSSELL CROWE I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cr... SHARON HORGAN Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legi... BRANDON SANDERSON In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be co... NIGELLA LAWSON When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Ot... OMAR AHMAD And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had.... GLENN TIPTON I think there's little things you can do with a dermatologist that can stave off major, giant su... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I love airports because funny things always happen at them. They're giant complexes full of urge... RHYS DARBY I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of... JO BRAND I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in s... TOM FRESTON I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy t... LAURA BENANTI On Friday against Iowa, I think we were just trying to be too cute. Tonight, I think we were a littl... ROB DAUM Ice cream is the perfect buffer, because you can do things in a somewhat lighthearted way. Plus, peo... JERRY GREENFIELD I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; ... BARBARA HEPWORTH For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the ... CAMILLA BELLE When I discovered acting, I decided that's what I wanted to do above everything else. It was the... DAVID MORRISSEY Museum spaces tend to be the kind of spaces where you can do a number of different things and it doe... ED OSBORN It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards,... HUGH GRANT People tend to think that because I'm a performer and I don't go to a regular high school th... ARIANA GRANDE Overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give to the listener the many wonderf... JOHN COLTRANE When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people ... DESMOND TUTU I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there... MARISSA MAYER I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass,... RIHANNA I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I'... BETH ORTON I like to do a movie, to be on it 8, 10 weeks. It evolves as you're working on it. Little things... BONNIE BEDELIA I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we ne... ARCHIE PANJABI Because it was couched in realism, I think people recognized things. The more you understand somethi... RICKY GERVAIS I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a seri... BERNARD SUMNER I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. ... SUTTON FOSTER The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no ... JENSON BUTTON The one worry that I always have with TV is that it's such a long commitment. You sign on to be ... EVAN ROSS Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and yo... DANIEL BRYAN In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of re... JANET LEIGH When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thi... BARRY HANNAH When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate an... CARLA HALL If it's a very emotional scene, you're kind of relieved when you've done it, kind of spe... ROBERT DE NIRO I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and ... ALFRE WOODARD I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but... GABRIELLA WILDE It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injur... DANIEL CORMIER It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just ... ZAYN MALIK I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. We... BOBBY KNIGHT You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newt... CRISS ANGEL 'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Goyte has an odd, '80s vibe to it, but that does not m... BEN LOVETT
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HELEN KELLER Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. HELEN KELLER If you rest, you rust. HELEN HAYES Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes ... HELEN KELLER A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of... HELEN ROWLAND Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature -- ... HELEN ROWLAND One man's folly is often another man's wife. HELEN ROWLAND Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange ... HELEN KELLER I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppos... HELEN KELLER Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful. HELEN KELLER We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the... HELEN KELLER I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing par... HELEN ALFREDSSON Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a ... HELEN ROWLAND In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. HELEN ROWLAND There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king am... HELEN KELLER God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work. HELEN KELLER When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the ... HELEN ROWLAND No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time. HELEN ROWLAND If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't... HELEN LAWRENSON Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows HELEN NIELSEN The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed. HELEN KELLER I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and becaus... HELEN KELLER Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow HELEN KELLER Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free s... HELEN KELLER I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. HELEN KELLER If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin o... HELEN KELLER The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the he... HELEN KELLER Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often ... HELEN KELLER