Way Quotes - Page 712

I have to just go in and audition, like everyone else, and fight my way to the top.

People always assume that things are just handed to me, but I've had to prove myself, every inch of the way.

Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.

If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

People are more than just the way they look.

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.

I went to Europe and, as I've been told, ate my way out of a career.

Even with the darkest and most distressing subjects in movies there's always going to be humour not far away, just under the surface. And it does help otherwise we'd just get ourselves into a massive trough of depression if there wasn't humour just around the corner.

Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.

Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.

The production process has a great way of bringing songs to light and that's a big part of it.

It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.