The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.
For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.
When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids.
How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events, but actually replicate in-bred qualities of human nature which create those animal spirits.
I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is on that you either have never seen or haven't seen in years. Like 'Coming to America' or 'Misery' or 'Moonstruck.'
Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.
I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.
Another mistaken notion connected with the law of large numbers is the idea that an event is more or less likely to occur because it has or has not happened recently. The idea that the odds of an event with a fixed probability increase or decrease de...
Surge Protector: Step aside, sir. Random security check. Wreck-It Ralph: Random, my behind. You always stop me. Surge Protector: I'm just a surge protector doing my job, sir. Name? Wreck-It Ralph: Lara Croft. Surge Protector: Name? Wreck-It Ralph: Wr...
From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.
He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footsteps.
Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness.
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.
A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation
There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.
Soon, nobody was leaving their cubicles to talk anymore, and we were either e-mailing each other random thoughts or scheduling meetings, or speaking over an instant message chat.
