One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.
If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.
Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.
Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.
The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.
If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.
One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders.
There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.
I considered myself very lucky after 'Baghdad Cafe,' and I have 'The Shield.' In every genre, I've kicked butt at some point. I'm real happy.
I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.
