I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.
In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?
Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.
One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.
I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be.
I think it's definitely important to look like yourself on a date. You don't want to look like someone else with too much makeup or too much hair.
If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true.
But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.
A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
Stop being self-conscious when you write. You are the expert about the world you are creating, no one else. So be bold and write on.
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.
I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.
