“God is not asking us to not have anything or even to give away every single thing that we have. He is asking us to share with people who have less than us, which we do all the time.”
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“Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to deal with.”
“Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.”
“It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.”
“The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.”
“I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.”
“As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .”
“Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex. And it puts what you do in perspective, and people don't like to see themselves or their activities in perspective. They don't feel quite comfortable with that. Nobody wants to acknowledge the insignificance of his life, and that is very often the net result of reading a poem.”
“Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.”
“Myth is what we call other people's religion.”
“I can't say I ever wanted to become an entertainer. I already was one, sort of-around the house, at school, doing my magic tricks, throwing my voice and doing Popeye impersonations. People thought I was funny; so I kind of took entertaining for granted It was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.”
“I am one of the lucky people in the world; I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.”
“Not being well-versed in that arena myself, it's a little bit frightening because I'm not very good in those situations with lots of people and lots of famous people and cameras and all of that. It's not my specialty.”
“I had never experienced anything like the response I got from people for Pirates of the Caribbean, where you meet a 75-year-old woman who had seen Pirates and somehow related to the character, and then five minutes later you meet a six-year-old who says, 'Oh, you're Captain Jack!' What a rush. What a gift. That was the challenge with Wonka, too--to be, in a sense, like Bugs Bunny. I find it magical that a three-year-old can be mesmerized by Bugs, but so can a 40-year-old or an 80-year-old. It's a great challenge to see if you can appeal to that huge an age range.”
“Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.”
“What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.”
“If it's called a selfie, why are there people in it?”
“The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.”
“The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.”
“The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.”