At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.
I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
If I knew what makes a movie catch on then I'd make hit after hit.
I always find it amazing that people get mad because they can't figure out my gender. Even though my only job here is to create art, I think being a genderless figure... it shakes people. And when that happens, it makes me feel like I'm doing my job.
Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.
Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky - this is happiness. Truly happiness.
I've learned that the Court will continue to change the meaning of the Constitution. Although all of the Justices have expressed the importance of judicial restraint, the Court inevitably makes new law every time it interprets the Constitution.
The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.
Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.
If there are actors that are brilliant, people often wonder whether it's intimidating working alongside them, but it really isn't. It just makes you up your game and want to be better. Rather than cowering in their shadows, it's very encouraging to see someone who's incredible; it makes me want to be a bit more like them.
It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.
What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.
What's my greatest fear? I don't know; I have lots of fears. Regret, I don't want to have any regrets; that makes me scared.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.
I enjoy running in Doha. The stadium is close and intimate, which makes you feel connected with the fans.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.
I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she's living with - first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner.
What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do.
What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.
My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.
I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.
The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.
I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.
I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.
We need to invest in a way that makes sure we've got the workforce we need in the future.
What I love about 'Modern Family' is that it makes you laugh, and there's hilarious physical gags that are outrageous, but there's real heart to it, and you feel good after you watch it.
