Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!
Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.
Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.
Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.
I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.
Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.
If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.
All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.
Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.
