“It's the time of the night I like best, when most people are asleep and it feels like the world belongs completely to my friends and me, as though nothing exists apart from out little circle: everywhere else is darkness and quiet.”
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Calm Quotes — page 251 of 276
“Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.”
“I prefer to live in my own little bubble of my own reality.”
“Go slow. If you have the time for eight countries, take five. If you're rushed to take five, take three.”
“I don’t ever unwind. My work is my peace. If I’m not working I’m not at peace.”
“I've tried to meditate, but I feel like I always overthink the process. When I need to calm my mind, I will go for a family hike...”
“In books, or work, or healthful play.”
“When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.”
“It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.”
“There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking, the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing. 'Your stomach's growling,' I said. 'I know it,' he said.”
“I've never been bothered by proximity to special effects and I've never felt disadvantaged by them. They're all part of a movie, and when the movie's under control I don't feel upstaged by them.”
“You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All the distraction and noise, all the confusion of misplaced, misdirected energy just don't happen there.”
“I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.”
“I don't mind playing older characters. I find it interesting. There are parts I couldn't have got when I was 30 years old. So, it continues to interest me in the same way that it always did.”
“By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.”
“It's a horrible and wonderful battle with yourself, to stay calm, stay in the moment. My coach said, "Stay here, not at the target. Don't be down there." It's why they call it the Zen art.”
“I do have a very chill - I can watch all my movies. A lot of people don't like to watch their work. I watch everything. All the time.”
“I'm not somebody who takes stuff home with them, that if I shoot a scene and I'm personally impacted for days or something. I mean it certainly is affecting and everything, but it doesn't penetrate to some deeper layer. I'm in it when I'm in it.”
“Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.”
“To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.”