My family and I are very close, and they mean more than anything to me, but I'm also the kind of guy who likes to go out with my friends and have a good time on Friday nights.
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
I've never recorded anything I didn't like.
If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.
In 90 minutes, anything can happen.
I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people.
I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is as much as anything else the fact a man in his 50s doesn't write the way a man in his 20s does - or he shouldn't.
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.
When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.
Early on, when I wrote 'Little Man Tate,' I got pigeonholed. Somebody said to me, 'You're not very dark,' and I had trouble getting certain kinds of jobs... and I learned very early that I didn't want to get pigeonholed as anything. And my next script was 'Dead Again.'
I believe anything has to be possible. You have to be able to face any problem that comes along and unravel it into a solution.
I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.
I can pretty much take anything that comes at me.
The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.
I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.
I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. if you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.
But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it in the same way that you claim anything, really.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic.
Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
I am someone who actually jumps headlong into everything and anything. I am not one of those people who likes to be scared; instead I have a tendency to be very, very open to everything. I really live; I love life.
You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
Life is nutty; anything can happen.
I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that.
One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.
What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.
I don't like to leave anything unfinished. I have an absolute need to see that every phone call is returned, every letter answered.
