Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.
I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember.
At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds
Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance. . . you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.
My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company. . . . A drowning man is not separated from the lust for air by a bridge of thought—he is one with it—and my son, conceived and grown in an ethanol bath, lives each day in the act of drowning. For him there is no shore.
To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of humility and respect. If it were not for the ethnographic material that had been collected by missionaries and anthropologists and so forth, much of past Native American society would no longer be accessible. What I object to is making kitsch of things that are very serious.
In addition, the United States Delegation will suggest a series of steps to improve the United Nations machinery for the peaceful settlement of disputes. . . - for extending the rule of international law. For peace is not solely a matter of military or technical problems - it is primarily a problem of politics and people.
If you want to be a Jewish state and you want to remain a democracy, you have to have a two-state solution.
Repentance is a change of willing, of feeling and of living, in respect to God.
I'm not one of those people who's saying "I'm going to set up a production company", because I like acting and not having to be a business man and do that side of things.