I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.
No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.
Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).
This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.
I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.
You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music. I suppose most of my songs are very up-tempo.
'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
If you're embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn't include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.
I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.
I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.
The Vision: You're afraid. Ultron: Of you? The Vision: Of death. You're the last one. Ultron: You were supposed to be the last.
Senior Ed Bloom: [to Will] Your mother was never supposed to marry me. She was engaged to somebody else.
Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?
I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.
I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.
… I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.
