I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.
When you are scoring runs, you automatically become a good leader because you are armed with so much confidence. If you struggle with your performance, then it becomes very difficult for a leader to perform his role.
My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'
When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.
When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.
You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.
I always say, 'Do you have a body? Then you're swimsuit ready.' That's all you need to worry about.
There is something that feels stagnant about having things you don't use or wear. But shoes are my thing. Shoes and scarves, I'm a big fan of the scarf.
I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
You don't do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.
I definitely have guys that I'm friends with that I have a crush on, and you don't want to ruin the friendship.
It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.
The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss those you love every day. You never know when the tragedies of this world may visit your life.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.
I know what winning and losing is when you gamble.
Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.
My childhood was as conventional as you could get. I think I probably created 'Arcadia' with a certain amount of wishful thinking. I would have loved to have more looseness and freedom and community.
Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.
I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray.
Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.
I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.
To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad decisions take over.
I don't think the game should be perfect. It's 95 percent mistakes out there - you have to work with 10 players on your side and another 11 against you. It's a crazy, chaotic game.
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.
You can't really explain why things happen.
