Doe Quotes - Page 236

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

Living rationally and authentically does not mean that you map out your future by thinking carefully about what it would be like if you chose one path versus another path and then choosing on that basis.

I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.

Hey, ah, does anyone want a cookie or something? Oh yeah. A cookie. That would make everything better. Dunked in a shot of tequila , maybe? Or better yet, just the bottle? Yeah, that ought to do it.

What do you think? Does this face make me look fat?

I think the sense of belonging does give you a certain amount of mental satisfaction.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.

Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want.

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

If there really is a perfect will of God we are meant to discover, in which we will find tremendous freedom and fulfillment, why does it seem that everyone looking for God's will is in such bondage and confusion?

The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions for growth

Opportunity does not always knock twice. You have to make some of your own opportunities and you have to go in and grab those.

What I was doing when I was creating my werewolves is really basing them on a wild wolf pack, as much as possible. It's not as if being bitten brings you in, but what it does is that it strengthens that instinct for pack. It strengthens that instinct to need to be with others who are like you, and to form tight bonds, as an actual wolf pack does.

I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.

How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.