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When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
Sep 15, 2025
You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.
This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.
When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.
I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.
Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.
You see, we all want the same things. We want to be able to take care of our families, provide for our children, to have a roof over our heads and a good-paying job.
I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.
If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.
And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land
So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?
Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.
I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.
I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country - all you do is kill millions of people.
When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.
You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.
If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.
If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.
For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.
How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.