You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things...
When I do an action thing, it speaks louder than the things that I've done that are dramatic and comedy. Actually, if you look at my resume, I have just as much comedic things as dramas, and I have far less action things than all of the other things,...
You can do things in every part of the world. You can do things in every discipline. You can do large things, you can do small things. But it takes a while to figure out what you actually want to do. And it changes. As you change your interests and d...
I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, t...
When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the things that they hate, all that does is eat away at the soul. Define the things that you believe in based upon the pursuit of the the things that you lov...
If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a swe...
You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing...
We typically misunderstand what's wrong about consumerism. It's not that it makes us love material things too much. To be a good consumer, you have to desire to get lots of things, but you must not love any of them too much once you have them. Consum...
It was as hard to comprehend that your life would never end as it was to comprehend that it would.
Hard writing makes easy reading.
A hard penis has no conscience.
I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.
When your mom was not in labor yelling at me, she made me laugh so hard.
Once the rain starts falling it's hard to tell it to stop...
And you’re beautiful. You’d have to work pretty hard to mess that up.
Not to wish too hard for a shift in circumstances since it never happens as you imagine.
Calories don’t count if they’re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this.
Shocking loss isn't to be shared, no matter how hard you try.
Once you see the good in someone, it’s hard not to notice the good in everyone.
Bad memories were hard enough, but it was torture to be haunted by the good.
My world had become his, or his mine; it was hard to say
