I'm not sure if a writer should talk about themes. Themes arrive out of the deeper structure and concerns, but to me, the main thing is getting it down right, writing about specific characters in specific predicaments, and finding a way to be true to the story itself, not only in the first burst of draft but in the revision, too.
The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.
I've only done four or five episodes of 'Two and a Half Men,' and its amazing how many people recognize me for that more than anything else in my career.
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Music is only love looking for words.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
If we're going to go farther from Earth, to Mars or somewhere else someday, we have to have a good understanding of the psychological impact on people. And not only psychologically, but how it affects their cognition. We're doing a lot of research on my cognitive abilities.
Being at the Play House, the only way I could see my life was that I would be an actor in a company, doing a lead role one week, a small part the next. That's what I thought I was going to be.
I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things.
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.
I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.
I can give you the King's English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don't do one knowing only the street. That's going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively.
I don't know what people are going to think of my stand-up. If you only know me from 'The Price Is Right' and 'The Drew Carey Show,' then you might be a little bit shocked. I'm a little dirty and a little opinionated but all in fun.
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.
I only eat one meal a day. Lunch, not dinner.
To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
Tinder - man, what's that all about? Tinder, where you're just, like, shopping for a human being. Reading the stats like 'Mortal Kombat.' You're like, 'Oh, he's got six arms, and he's only got the two, so I'll probably go with the six arms.' I don't want to do that with human beings.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
I only make movies I want to go see.
You do not have to be convicted or even charged of a crime to be able to demonstrate that you've violated a personal conduct policy, and reflect poorly not only on themselves, but all of their teammates, every NFL player in the league, and everyone associated with the NFL.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.
I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.
