Doe Quotes - Page 321

My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.

Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, "This is mine! And this is mine!" But it says: "This is yours!"

Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.

The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.

Writing about racism requires a directness that writing a love story does not.

A lot of people have misconceptions about what the surgeon general does.

Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get nowhere to begin with.

Are there women in your world now that have given you those lessons in confidence? Oh absolutely. Meryl [Streep] does it all the time. I think she does it in a way that she doesn't even understand or think she's doing it.

I had to invest in the love and understand that with the love comes the pain. So when he tells me that, the monologue is already there. Does that make sense?

I look up to Jimmy Fallon. He hosts talk shows as a fan himself, and that's how I do it. When the celebrities come in, I'm excited that they're there. It's not just like a formal, 'Hey, how are ya?' It's like, 'Dude, what the hell! So happy to see you!' That's what Jimmy Fallon does every time.

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.

For me, it was a wonderful surprise because I saw wonderful actors being very professional working in front of me [on Chicken with Plums]. I finally understood what an actor is and what an actor does. On a daily basis, it's a bit repetitive.

[N]or should you move so fast! The works of God do not proceed in that way; they come about of themselves, and those He does not create soon perish.

If you no longer have any income, you will not be neglected-you will not starve to death. . . . We panic at first, but God does not always allow the evil that is feared to happen.

Craziest thing I ever did for love? It's all crazy. None of it makes any sense, does it, when you're in love with someone. It doesn't make any logical sense. I guess that's why they call it being in love.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

One does not question a miracle.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.