You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.
The only way to fight a thing like 50 is to stay au courant if it kills you.
If you scapegoat someone, it's a third party that will be aware of it. It won't be you. Because you will believe you are doing the right thing.
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
Music stops you from thinking.
The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Being born white in South Africa or anywhere in the empire and Commonwealth automatically conferred this special status. You had no problem finding a place to live, a job, trade union membership, access to social services. Being white, speaking English, you were accepted as English, entitled to all the rights of citizenship.
Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.
Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.
No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side.
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
L.A. is such an exotic city to me, and it is just a big bubble. If you accept the bubble and accept how isolated it is. It can be a very creative place, and I find it easy to focus.
I wrote 'Soul Keeping' because we are taught more about how to care for our cars than how to steward our souls. But you cannot have an impactful life with an impoverished soul.
I don't think I've had love at first sight. But, I've definitely had moments where I've seen a person, and I'm like, 'Wow, there is something different about you, and I really want to get to know you.'
No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
I miss L.A. because of the weather. It can change so much in Calgary. You can get a storm one minute, and then the sun will come out and it will be hot.
People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.
Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.
I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day was a new problem, and every day you got to think about how to solve something new, how to reason through something new, how to develop an algorithm to solve for something you hadn't worked on before.
I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's a dead genre. If you make a bad pirate movie, no one will want to see it. If you make a good one, everyone will want to see it.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Augmenting your appearance so drastically that it elicits a reaction from literally every acquaintance you greet is a sea change.
If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.
You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
The challenge with Donald Trump is that he'll deny things he said the day before or even in the same interview. And then sometimes when you try and talk about a fact that he misstated or something that he said out loud that he now disagrees with himself on, it's very frustrating.
