I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.
Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.
You set the trap when the rat has gone.
Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
I set my face toward the sun again, and I think about my old life—the one I feel as though I’ve abandoned somehow. It hurts to think of it that way. And even though I know it wasn’t perfect, I look back now, and all I see is perfection. Every s...
The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed - neither summer nor winter, spring nor fall. A thermal haze of inexpressible sweetness, though bearing tiny bits of grit or mica, had eased into the Valley from the industrial re...
So he rode to a green hillock and there set his banner, and the White Horse ran rippling in the wind. 'Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising, I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for ...
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where chil...
Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of joy and hope: it speaks with a thousand tongues to the heart: it waves its mighty shadow over the imagination: it stands in lowly s...
Positive mind-set is vital for surviving hard-times.
I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.
When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.
I'm at my happiest when I'm on a movie set. It's like therapy for me.
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.
I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.
Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.
Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. ...
