I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.
Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature.
It isnt for want of something to say-- something to tell you-- something you should know-- but to detain you-- keep you from going-- feeling myself here as long as you are-- as long as you are
my only complaints are two: that I didn't make myself ready for you sooner in life, that I can't give you better, Love you more.
I consoled myself with the fact that I had max. He's warm, attentive and completely devoted. Who could ask for anything more" -- Abby Shaw, Sucker Punched
I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.
To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.
Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.
You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.
On 'The Messenger,' just imagining playing the part of a soldier in that movie was kind of hard for me. And in 'Rampart,' the idea of playing a cop was even harder. It was hard to imagine myself as a cop.
I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.
I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'
There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.
My dear, I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning.
All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself
I'd call myself the mediator. I kind of just float around and do my own thing. I'm kind of chilled out, laid back.
Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
