The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.
You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.
You are everything you should be, and all that is enough. Be proud of who you are, and love who you will become.” – Lady Lalaigne to Nhakira, “Chosen
You scream it in everything you do. You’re holding on to what happened because you think that’s all you have.” “It is all I have.” “Find more
Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want.
When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.
When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.
Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.
Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.
That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.
n life You have two choices, you can stay where you are and be miserable forever or you will fly and free yourself and be happy.
You think being dead inside is bad until someone brings you back to life and stabs you in the chest without the intention of killing you.
If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.
If they were there for you when you had nothing, they are the ones worth having now. If they only notice you because of what you have gained, are they worth having at all?
Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.
A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more.
When someone hurts you, hates you, don't hate him, win him with love; you will find the peace.
If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.
People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.
