I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.
Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.
Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.
For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life.
Uva uvum vivendo varia fit
Often in the morning I will sit in a favorite chair in my study with a cup of coffee, with classical music playing, not trying to form a prayer with words but waiting, listening, until perhaps I sense the Spirit bringing to the surface a word from God. Then I offer just a simple 'Thank you. '
I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.
Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.
I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.