I just write songs, I make music, and I have several times over reinvented my life in order to keep making music and just make music all day. I don't know. It's just what I have to do.
I will reflect a thousand times over before I allow the German Volk to become entangled in agreements whose consequences are not readily evident.
Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.
Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep pushing. That capacity to endure and then prevail is just amazing.
Yet there are some resting-places, Life's untroubled interludes; Times when neither past nor future On the soul's deep calm intrudes.
A lot of times, actors give so much power to the producers and the producing companies because, quite frankly, they have it. But we don't take the limited power that we have, which the power you initially have is to say 'no. ' But 'no' in a positive way.
These are the times when a genius wants to live.
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.
Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past.
The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.
There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else.
The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.
Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and many times a thankless job. You have to be the pillar of strength even when you feel like you are crumbling to pieces inside.
That place is so behind the times, you can't even get AIDS there yet.
It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.
I got told I needed a producer I don't know how many times - maybe 27 times, 30? Then I recently got told 'I'm so proud of you. ' That was even more great to hear.
I think we've been a lot more disciplined with our bowling. Our batting at times has been more disciplined as well.
Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist.