A. K. Antony Quotes
I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.
My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.
There are so many more productive things to do than sit around feeling shame and guilt. Beyond touching on shame and guilt in a perfunctory manner, I wouldn't bother with that at all.
I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement, you know, people editing themselves.
I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.
Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.
Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.
As a Christian, I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.
You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles - people nearly always pick a problem their own size, and ignore or leave to others the bigger or smaller ones.
I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.
Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.
My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.
I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.
I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.
If I could write a letter to my teenage self I'd probably say something like: "You ain't gonna believe what will become of you."
A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't form ordinary relationships.
People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.
If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.
Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didnt do them myself.
Come, sir, come, I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.Look, here I have you, thus I let you go, And give you to the gods.
File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.
Centuries had passed since the dawn of science, yet men offer riches in the name of God.
Music fountains from purity, travels through serenity and dissolves with tranquility.
...bands fall out. But at the end of the day, they're like family. You get back together because you have to, because you're stronger together than you are apart.
Music. It’s not about those things. It’s about a feeling. It’s about expressing yourself. It’s about letting go.
He’s suffering from Politician’s Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.
For thirty minutes I sat back and felt the glimmer of pride that historically precedes the most catastrophic falls.
Ciss says, 'People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven't time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions.
