In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies.
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.
Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There's nothing like a trip to the dressing room to convince a woman - fat, thin, or in between - that she's a freak.
Throughout your life, you've been influenced by what you have done in the past, what you have been told you can and cannot do, and what your present circumstances seem to dictate.
Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.
If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
When I auditioned for 'Pitch Perfect,' I didn't know it was a singing movie. I didn't read the script. I go to the audition, and I'm like, 'Oh, it's a baseball movie.' But then I'm reading the lines, and I'm like, 'This doesn't seem like a baseball movie.'
At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.
A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.
I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.
I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.
My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him... But I can't go up and speak to him, because I don't want to seem like a goob.
Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
For the most part, I really love being in a collaborative thing. And in a collaborative thing if you have a singer as good as Sean Smith or Eddie Vedder, you kind of think, well, why don't you just go ahead and let them sing? People seem to really like it.
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.
'Penthouse' didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces.
Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
I try to look cool. I strategize. Sometimes it's like - that's part of the strategizing, to make it seem like I don't think about it.
