"It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her."
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"We don't know the end from the beginning the way that God does. So when a child dies, sure that is incredibly difficult, and when you are the parent, there is almost nothing anybody can say to you that makes any sense."
"England does not love coalitions."
"London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law."
"On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read."
"He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong."
"If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!"
"One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who attacks is destitute and the one who is attacked is well provided. The one who attacks always considers himself to be in the position of legitimate offense."
"The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in job ratios. It's ludicrous. Are we in the modern world, or what?"
"Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases."
"Anything that does not belong where it is, is an "open loop" pulling on your attention."
"Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity."
"There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making."
"Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing."
"Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?"
"Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency."
"[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is."
"One of the first things I do with people is help them figure out what their limiting beliefs are and then encourage them to question, "Well, do I really want to keep that one? Is it limiting me? Does it not fit me? Is it holding me back?""
"Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths."
"A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives."