The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.
I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order to 'see' the story, so it is collaborative in a way that a film can never be.
Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.
You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.
When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.
I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.
If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.
When someone thinks they're good at something, you can use it against them, and that's what we did. We did the kiss of death.
I feel that contemporary music, with very few exceptions, is missing the voice. You see an award show, you see a hundred extras on set dancing and special effects, and you don't see that solo voice that was the trademark of Adele. It's no accident that it was her album that ended up selling 27 million copies worldwide.
The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
I always think the most important thing for a writer is a deadline, and it's the same with a house. They say you shouldn't make an emotional decision with a house, but I think it is the only decision you can make.
Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.
Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc.
You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.
You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.
Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.
You have to learn to fight for things, to bear the burden and have a life which does not in any way correspond to other peoples' lives.
If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
I'm consistently making adjustments. You're going to have to do that in the postseason, too.
I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.
But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information.
I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.
If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable.
The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.
I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.
You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.
Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
