Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.
Answers are what we are trying to get at; search is a process by which you may be able to get answers, but it's not the end goal. It's a mechanism.
I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
Parkour is really a practice of getting to know yourself, what you're able to do, what are your limits. As you train, you start knowing what you can do.
Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.
There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right.
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels.
One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.
I haven't been able to write a song about flying. It just sounds cheesy. But for me, there's nothing like being up there.
You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they all look alike to me.
My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.
I know for an absolute fact that if I ate a meal at one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants, I would be able to taste his anger.
We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.
I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.
In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.
I have often had apparitions of hosts of serpents with heads at their tails, but not one was able to bite me; and many other visions.
