Way Quotes - Page 611

The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with men."

I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.

We've always been journalists - and have seen ourselves in that way. But we sort of recontextualized it through music.

If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock music, and we were a part of that.

Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through, and to actually say something. Lately, the songs are more jagged and they don't really lend themselves to that. I just take it one bit at a time.

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.

I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.

I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.

Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.

The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don`t turn out the way you wanted them to because in the theater, you`re always involved with collaborators and they don`t always see the work the way you do.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens... this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives.

Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true, but I do think it probably causes some changes, some evolution in the way a person works. But on a day-by-day basis, I just still enjoy doing what I'm doing.

As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer - let's say take a book like "It" or maybe "Christine," and say these are make-believe fears.

I think what you do is, you keep your sensors open. And it's - the more that you do the job, the more you come to understand in a kind of intuitive way that you're always - you know, your radar is on. And the thing is going around and around and around. And it's not picking up any blips.

Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex - a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when it tramples houses... I started out as a storyteller; along the way I became an economic force.

There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.

There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.

He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one