Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers are so resilient and strong, it's just amazing.
All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.
If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.
When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.
When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
I know how to hit a mark without looking. I instinctively know where my eye line should be. That's all 100%. But your character and the story are always different, so the emotional part is not muscle memory. You're still surprised by stuff and get the adrenaline.
It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.
So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.
When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.
I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.
It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
It's definitely a tough blow to your morale to get fired.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.
This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
You're living your life the entire time in both worlds - it's not like they say, 'Action' and you're like, 'Here we go, we're in this thing,' because that's where bad acting comes from.
You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.
I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself defending your view of a character against the author's view, and I think that's terribly dangerous.
Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.
Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.
I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.
Nowadays, it's so silly to not express your feelings, as long as you respect peoples' spaces and respect their limits. You have to live your life in peace, and no one has anything to do with that.
It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.
At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.
I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?
