You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.
It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
Hoke Colburn: [on a pay phone calling Boolie after taking Daisy to the Piggly Wiggly] Hello, Mr. Werthan? Yeah, it's me. Guess where I'm at? I jus' finished drivin' yo mama to da store. [laughs] Hoke Colburn: Oh, yeah, she flap around some, but she's...
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years...
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
There is no wind that blows right for the sailor who doesn't know where the harbor is.
I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.
When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
A thought is an idea in transit.
My idea of heaven is not writing.
It is a moment of time that starts an idea.
Trust your idea to the end.
The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
I don't agree with the idea that my characters are unlikeable.
In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.
The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.
Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.
That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
