With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
Approaching life through '40 Chances' gives reasons to hope and actions to take, and it offers fresh approaches that our world desperately needs.
If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
There was a time when I desperately wanted to be part of a Yash Chopra film, not because he was a great director, but because I was an outsider and I wanted that validation of being accepted in the film industry.
Grace is the divine assistance or heavenly help each of us desperately needs to qualify for the celestial kingdom. Thus, the enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural ca...
It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos.' It's the people we've grown to love or otherwise.
I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.
Your true destiny is desperately waiting on you to start thinking, acting, and walking with faith and courage.
The world is desperately waiting on your positive input. Try not to permit fears and doubts to hold you back.
Isn't it very awkward how disrespectful people tend to be the same ones to desperately demand respect from others?
I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.
Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable.
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
Embrace the change you desperately need. Tear down your walls and show gratitude for little things.
But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.
When I started on 'The West Wing,' that was at a time when this was still a stigma, because movie stars didn't do TV. Now, every movie star is desperate to find their 'True Detective.'
If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself.
Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
