It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.
Some people you would call close friends but they will keep insisting on being the opposite.
Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes.
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
Be consistent with what you believe and do. Persist and insist that you will do it till it's done and done well.
I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
Nothing is wrong in being stupid however being smart and insists that you are is the biggest stupidiy one can fall into.
I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.
The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
