For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.
The standard model of particle physics describes forces and particles very well, but when you throw gravity into the equation, it all falls apart. You have to fudge the figures to make it work.
We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.
The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supp...
I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.
I've always had a booty even when I was a baby, and when I was in high school and was skinny, I still had the booty. In Hollywood's eyes, the perfect women has to be a stick figure, tall, blonde hair, with big boobs.
All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.
I don't believe it pays to be a great author.
of the authors’ imagination and used fictitiously. Emerald Green Desiree Holt
One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.
With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.
There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.
If I ever stop acting, I'd like to be the author of that decision.
Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.
Authority is ability to rule. Dominion is rulership.
A famous author is a promoter who never quit.
My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.
