You see a lot of people out there that say they're country, and they do their little things that are stereotypical country things, but being country is a way of life.
The one thing I can assure you is that I'm not going to do a Prescott.
I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.
I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.
The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.
Do you have a leather jacket? One for a ten-year-old boy?" I asked the man selling leather jackets and gloves in Covent Garden, London. "Yes, I have one right here!" And the man dug out a fine leather jacket that looked styled and tailored for a youn...
I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself...
But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.
And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.
I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.
I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Do not let go of your right to make your own decisions, because by doing so you are letting go of who you really are.
Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.
