What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader.
It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.
as kids we counted on our fingers, as we grew up we started counting more on people, now what do you think was more disappointing?
I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.
I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.
Singing in Hindi is nice but restrictive. Regional languages are more rhythmic, have a different tone and sound, making it more interesting.
The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I'm on top of things.
I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous.
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.
I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out.
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.
If like fcuks you hard, you fcuk her more harder. If she betrays, put little bit more effort and she will be dead flat.
If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.
I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.
The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.
Ignoring your intuition telling you this person is not for you will likely lead to more time wasted and more disappointments along the way.
You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.
The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.
Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.
