Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
Playing Rachmaninoff was like walking on a rope bridge across a gorge with dreamy skies above and a raging, muddy river below.
I just hug her, tell everything is fine, and walk with her to her house. It will be all OK in the end.
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.
A stylized sun and moon, joined by a horizontal bar, floated above a country divided in two by a river that snaked between them.
Does still run fiction?” “I have absolutely no idea, Melinda,” he said, grinning.
Such a voice this man has. The way he sounds isn't a sound at all. It's a river into which words are thrown.
The moon twangs its silver strings; The river swoons into town; The wind beds down in the pines, Covers itself with stars.
The river didn’t fall down the mountain. No, it took the escalator. I love swimming down stairs like I’m Michael Phelps in a wheelchair.
Even though David Pottruck has gone to this unbelievable career where he is a billionaire, there is always a new hurdle. He never sits there saying, 'I'm the best.'
'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.
Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
I want my children to be proud of their father and to say, 'My father is the best dad in the world.' And I want them to belong to a modern family, and live a path of happiness and calm.
I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.
It's definitely team work with my fashion career. The trick is to surround yourself with the best people, those whose opinions you really trust and value.
In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.
I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?
Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.
