'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.
If you meet a number of failures the causes of which are not known, look for something that is common for each failure and that is never present when there is a success.
Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.
If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
When life presents you with a problem, show the courage, make yourself a hundred times bigger than the problem.
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.
The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.
My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.
Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'
Being a director, whether you're in rehearsal or you're in auditions or you're in a creative meeting, is so much to me about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping.
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.
Martin Riggs: Maybe we'll stay alive long enough for me to buy you a present.
