Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.
I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.
I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.
The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
My wife and I work out together almost every day. It's just a great way to spend time together. We're going to run a marathon together later this year, and that's one more goal that we'll accomplish as husband and wife.
You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way.
We're not going to protect the Earth the way we need to protect it if we don't stop making so many babies.
For me, in the third book, when Peeta gets brainwashed by the Capitol, that's going to be fun to play. The rest of the time he's very much into Katniss, and for that to get turned around and to play it the other way, that's going to be very exciting.
I live way out in the country, in truck-country.
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?
Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality.
There is no way of knowing if a film is going to be good.
The press are animals, and they need to be treated that way.
Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.
If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.
The Virginia class is an extremely successful program, and we'd like to keep it that way, and we're confident in our performance. But the Ohio replacement is a significantly larger ship.
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
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.
We have to pay attention to developing well, in the correct manner, the human aspects also in the professions, in respect of other persons, in being concerned for others, which is the best way of being concerned for ourselves.
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.
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.
I really would like to start a family as well. Whether I can balance the two or have to decide one or the other way, I'm not sure what will happen.
I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.
I feel like I've been very smart in the way that I carry myself and treat myself. I feel like my mom was a big part of that just because she's always let us make our own decisions, and we've known very much about the mistakes and the dangers already of whatever this Hollywood life may be.
Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.
Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can't be such an elitist, to say no, that's not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.
As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life.
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
Accents influence a performance. If you look at Stanislavski, he says work from the in to the out, and I probably overall work the other way. I find an accent and a mood, and that influences the character massively.
