One of the things the police officers told us in the first minutes of being with them is that the way that they cope with their job is by using a lot of inappropriate humour. It's really a lovely opportunity to try to challenge our ideas of what it is to deal with complex issues, and that they're not always dower. Having that kind of humour along with the pathos for what people are going through is a really nice challenge.
Time has told me less than I need to know.
Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.
My dad always told me that I could be anything I wanted, if I was willing to work hard enough to achieve it.
Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.
[Kenneth Koch] taught children in public schools in New York City to write poems and told them down worry about rhyming, don't worry about any of that stuff. You know, write a poem where you mention three colors and make it five lines - or he would just give them, you know, little strategies. And, man, they wrote some great poems.
That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.
Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.
My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.
Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.
How many times have I told you, don't get caught by the bad guys!
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around how we frame it. The lens we see it through, or the way we tell our own stories. We mythologize ourselves. So I was thinking about Persephone's story, and how different it would be if you told it only from the perspective of Hades. Same story, but it would probably be unrecognizable. Demeter's would be about loss and devastation. Hades's would be about love.
Your success is no longer about your ability to do what you are told, and do it well.
you told me I could beat him. You promised.
The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the truth.
In a restaurant, tangoing couples circled past, and the look in Hale's eyes was especially mischievous when he told her, "Oh, I see. You brought me here so you can have your way with me on the dance floor.
When Shah Rukh stated, “Bhootnath. . . will be among the top three hits of the year!”, I told him, “Aapke moonh mein dudh, ghee, shakkar sab!
Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.