One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.
I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies.
I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.
You need fear to create, to live.
But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.
I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.
I've always had stamina. It's a genetic thing. Don't forget, I'm from the era where we played outside, so there was no issue with weight because we were out running around the fields and playing hide and seek.
If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and none more so than I). I have, therefore, for the Glory of God, who wants to be recognized from the book of Nature, that these things may be published as quickly as possible. The more others build on my work the happier I shall be.
In 5,000 years of recorded human history. . . neither in the east or in the west. . . has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history. That's an astounding fact and it isn't until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time in recorded human history marriage defined as anything other than between men and between women.
To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.
I was working with Michael Shannon and I was like, "Oh man I'm having trouble with this scene. " And he's like, "Well, then just open it up. " I was like, "But, the mark?" And I was like, what's wrong with me? And he was like, "Dude, what's wrong with you?"