That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
I'm obsessed with the thought of making things happen... Ultimately, I do it because I'm scared. I don't ever, ever, ever want to be poor again.
You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.
I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.
We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.
When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.
You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.
To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.
If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?
I happen to think that global slowdown, the slowdown in investment, strengthening dollar probably provide more of a headwind than we get from the decline in oil prices.
In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.
If you're not ready the moment things happen, then you're irrelevant, you might as well not go.
I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it.
The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.
I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants.
I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.
In any given day, our administration has about 2 million employees, and things happen. We put in process procedures to make sure if there has been any wrongdoing, there will be appropriate consequences, and we will move on.
You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?
What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.
One of my favorite things in books is watching someone make the mistake. You know it's going to happen. You keep thinking: 'Don't do it!' But of course they're going to do it. It's riveting. You learn through them that it's okay. It's the ecstatic fall, where you watch someone make that terrible decision, and there's such pleasure in it.
I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.
In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.
Ultimately, love conquers all, and gay or straight, don't we all want to believe that? I would that if this was to happen to me, and one of my kids had come and told me he or she was gay, I would say: If that's the only way you can live, then I love you.
Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.
When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.
There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.
In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.
Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
