I ask for help. I tell Life what I want, and then I allow it to happen.
Everyone has their weaknesses. Some people smoke. I collect stuffed penguins. If you won't tell, I won't.
It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing. . . and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.
I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.
It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living. . . To live is to find out for yourself what is true.
It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death. " "Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-
I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.
As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but bring your own thing to it. " In a lot of ways they feel like opposites, but in a sense, my job is to cajole or encourage decisions that I approve of.
Above all, tell the truth.
Men tell us sometimes there is no such thing as an atheist. There must be. There are some men to whom it is true that there is no God. They cannot see God because they have no eye. They have only an abortive organ, atrophied by neglect.
There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.
I am not a storyteller. . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.
The next time your daughter asks, 'Where are all the men?' Tell them that the Democratic party and its policies got rid of them'
I've learned a valuable opinion does not tell you what to think, it illuminates what you should consider.
Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.
I'm really trying to just keep this internal, and be faithful to the story and the characters, and keep 99. 9% of my brain there, serving the story. It's a great network. It's the golden network of cable, so it's totally an honor to be there and tell this story, but I try not to think about anything beyond that.
Show me what you can do; don't tell me what you can do.
In real life, when someone's partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.
Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.
If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another.