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.
I always set myself huge goals each year, and I'm pretty good at manifesting them, which ends up meaning I take a lot on my plate.
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.
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.
I'm trying to set a good example. I don't need to take a high salary, which would impede the success of Morningstar.
I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.
I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world.
I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.
