The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge.
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.
It's people's own prerogative to be able to look at something and know the difference between 'this is what someone looks like with make-up on' and 'this is what they look like in real life.'
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.
When it comes to the fearless life, the divine gives nothing freely... save to those who freely give themselves to discovering the truth about their own fearless selves.
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.
A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.
The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.
We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.
Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life.
So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.
An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.
I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own.
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.
I am a firm believer that you can make a difference in someone's life - whether they're thousands of miles away, or on your own block.
