What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad.
I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.
I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.
As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.
I don't make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It's magic.
History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.
Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.
You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.
They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.
I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
