The mass of your visions depends on the size of your dreams and distance they can cover within a given period of your life.
If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.
A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.
When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
The world should be very clear about making sure that Iran does not get nuclear weapons, period.
I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.
My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids.
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.
When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.
At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous.
I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.
Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.
Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.
After a brief period in which I had let many a Southern Californian convince me that it was all 'in my mind,' I am once again officially allergic to dogs.
Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally.
I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.
'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.
