Way Quotes - Page 607

My mother's life was way too heavy for me.

There seems to be such an insecurity with a lot of films. When they're made, you have to pack every moment to feel something and use the music in that way. That's something I just naturally don't feel.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.

I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.

To be lost and forgotten-to be abandoned-is a shared and terrible fear, just as our fondest hope, as we grow older, is that we might leave some parts of us behind in the hearts of those we love and in that way live on.

Of course that's the best way to continue to learn anything: Try to teach it!

Continual improvisation on a theme is a more useful way to think of how to bring the various parts of life together.

How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?

Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

For all you know, the way I act could very well be an act. Or maybe it isn't. I could be the most dangerous, most vicious one of the bunch, because no one takes me seriously!

I know he [Prince] is up there saying to me, "This is not the way I wanted it to happen, Stevie."

I blame it [never taking a break] on my mother. She was a born entertainer. Leave the songwriting, the singing and all that behind, and I still would have found some way to be an entertainer. I would have never been an actress, though, because I realized early in my life, in like sixth grade, I was a terrible actress.

I live at the end of a dead end one way street. I don't know how I got there.

I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.

It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.

I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.

I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.

I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.

There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages.