I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.
Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality - which indeed may be a rare achievement.
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.
A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.
Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.
When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.
Anyone can plot a course with a map or compass; but without a sense of who you are, you will never know if you're already home.
Sometimes it's better to go against the crowd and feel alone, than to agree and have a false sense of belonging
It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.
I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.
Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.
For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
When you give appreciation IN ORDER TO get something– it's manipulation and people can sense it. Appreciate genuinely.
Ego is the most important aspect of our life in the sense if we use it against the spaces between our hearts.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Happiness is the contentment in the heart, peace of mind, a sense of stability, a right attitude and being content with what is sufficient.
