“You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 206 of 303
“I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I’ll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.”
“I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'”
“What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs.”
“I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too near me, with their vehement beat-pounding black and green rhythms like those of a very young policeman exploding, for me to see the written evidence of it.”
“Everything I own has some significance to me.”
“The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.”
“You know, this is what I've always thought a college should look like.”
“I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.”
“If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible.”
“I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.”
“Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.”
“I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.”
“Live with fewer things that have greater meaning.”
“When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.”
“It could be that it's not that different. Circumstances, no matter what the color is, could be similar.”
“When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like this girl or that guy," when the director really loves them. No, you want to go with what the director likes.”
“When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!”
“I never tell anyone what to take away from a movie.”
“[Having monologue] are talking to somebody even if it's just to yourself, convince yourself if that's what you're trying to do.”