Getting loved by yourself is the best thing that can happen to you. After all your heart is a part of you. Before being someone else's.
Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.
I'm satisfied with what I've done. I'm not satisfied with what has happened in my career, some of the real roadblocks I had to overcome.
If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.
1. Everything is a consequence of Something. The element of coincidence doesn’t exist. We only think it exists because we cannot keep up with all processes that happen around us.
That kind of walk is nice when it happens, but I'll take four minutes now and then over being butt-stapled to a chair all day long.
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.
I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more comfortable writing fiction.
People think I left The Band and spoiled this whole thing, and that's not what happened. Nobody broke up The Band. Nobody ever said, 'That's it, we're done.'
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen
You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.
I blame God for all the good things that happened in my life to spite him I will be good to others
I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.
It doesn't matter what happens to you. What matters is, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to complain and shrink or are you going to step into your greatness?
Don't torture yourself over the past. Use it as a teacher. Whatever happened to you in the past, has only prepared you for now.
I used to worry about my Fears, but I realized that most of the time nothing bad happened. So, I have stopped worrying. -RVM
There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.
There are so many projects that don't happen, just sometimes they don't get announced, so no one ever knows about them and you don't have to talk about them.
