"Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you."
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"I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'"
"Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them."
"Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy."
"I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene. It's not a movie-by-movie or a part-by-part basis. It's a day-by-day thing, and sometimes an hour-by-hour thing."
"You get to actually make your movie. As a filmmaker, that's the dream. That's why you get up in the morning, to be able to do that. You feel constrained sometimes, but if the movie makes sense in the budget realm, then it isn't hard."
"Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn't do, more often than not it shows you what you should do."
"Not all the lyrics are topical - sometimes that is just the setting. They are all pretty much interpersonal. For some reason it's easier to write about people who are unsavory. It's like sometimes when you peel back an onion, there is mold inside."
"Everyone says, "You have to work at relationships." Sometimes you've got to work, but if you're working 60 percent of the time and only enjoying it 40 percent..."
"There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you."
"Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life."
"I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place."
"I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good."
"Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning."
"Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances."
"Sometimes I steal costumes."
"Sometimes I'd go [in British accent] "Uhh, brilliant! Absolutely brilliant, thank you. Wonderful. Cheers!" I do say "cheers" automatically," from living over there. I say "cheers" to everything."
"It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman."
"It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more."
"In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes."