Way Quotes - Page 637

it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.

People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.

Entering into the flow of abundance begins when exceeding expectations becomes a way of life.

Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content.

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

I used to be concerned about style, worried about my work looking like a bad copy of someone who's better than me. So my embracing of the research and finding a way to replicate something consciously rather than replicate something unconsciously seemed like a way to go to distinguish what I do.

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

There's a problem of terrorism in the world. There's always been terrorism. There will be terrorism. You have to deal with it surgically. You have to deal with it in a serious way.

Boycotts don't work. They work in certain isolated situations, where you have some potential. But in the main, the best way to bring about freedom in a society is to normalize, have tourism, have trade, have contact.

Any time you do action and horror, you've always got to try to find a way to make it fresh for the audience, but also for yourself, and there are so many different ways to freak people out and create tension.

And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place.

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

I think you just keep going. I've been that way, my whole life.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.

There's so much of this beautiful planet that is still actually spectacular and stimulating. There are so many amazing people that you meet along the way.

There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.

Smaller movies are great because you don't have to argue with so many people all the time. But really I like arguing so there's a balance either way.

The only way to establish any kind of mystique, is to completely shut up and never talk to anyone. And I'm contractually obligated not to shut up.

Me, Kristen [Stewart] and Taylor [ Lautner] stood in the middle of the Olympic stadium with 30,000 people just screaming for 15 minutes. It's absolutely bizarre. There's no way you can ever compute it.

In some ways I would like to be like Tyler, my char­ac­ter in the film.

It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

I think I'm pretty much down to earth, and I'm not really way, way out there.