Way Quotes - Page 543

Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.

It is only your mental habits and your selected memories of how you think things are that keep you from moulding things in your life in a more harmonious way.

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer

You can fake your way to the table, but ultimately you have to learn how to eat.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

[David Milch] had say, "You have to understand that our history of western movies, what we've been doing in westerns since the movies began to talk, you had audiences that would be offended by certain things, and there was a cleaning-up of the way people spoke."

I pay my models to work with me, so there becomes this weird sort of economic bartering thing, which made me feel really sort of uncomfortable, almost as though you were buying into a situation - which, again, is another way of looking at those paintings. The body language in those paintings is a lot more stiff.

There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.

The serialization through the Internet or through digital portals, means of ways of communicating, and I think that's great.

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

I want to see women onscreen the way I see them in society.

Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.

In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.

In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

I hope I'm always learning something.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

The way to become rich is to make money, not to save it.

I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.

What I do feel with the different scripts that they give me where I feel like this is done for one of those reasons, I share my point of view. I don't just say, "No, thank you." I say, "I feel that this represents Latinos in a wrong way, in a bad way."

All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

Reason like science, grows by way of mutual criticism; the only possible way of planning its growth is to develop those institutions that safeguard. the freedom of thought

The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. People then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside.