But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.
I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is poss...
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy. At home, do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.
History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going.
As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.
