For two nights Félicité never left the dead girl. She said the same prayers over and over again, sprinkled holy water on the sheets, then sat down again to watch. At the end of her first vigil, she noticed that the child's face had gone yellow, the...
An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.
I'm not handled. I'm not crafted by slick, high-priced consultants. I'm a real person, a genuine person, a struggling person in Connecticut.
When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.
A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes.
Personal liberty is not personal license.
I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me...
The most creative approach is often the simple approach.
There is no simple answer to what I think.
I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.
There are no simple solutions to imaginary problems.
To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.
I'm not a god, I'm just a simple guy.
My life is simple and rough.
It's not always easy, but it's usually simple.
Do something real, and keep it simple.
It's all about sound. It's that simple.
Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.
In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.
