Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path.
My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
People are still people, and they make their decisions based on their life experiences and their beliefs. You really can't divorce the two. It's important to fight against stereotypes and oversimplifications in very complex people.
You never can take for granted that you have a job.
My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty. . . If there is not government to insist on those values, then who?. . . The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves.
There's only one thing that all of the central banks control and that is the base, their own liability, and they can control that in various ways. They can control it directly by open market operations, buying and selling government securities or other assets, for example, buying and selling gold, or they can control it indirectly by altering the rate at which banks lend to one another.
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.