C.J. Anderson Quotes

When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.

Where there is money, there is fighting.

Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself.

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

Of course I am not religious — I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.

My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.

One day I woke up and discovered that I was in love with tripe.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

There’s a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

The stars whirled above us and the firecrackers blazed. The moon stood watch as drops of blood fell, careless seeds that sizzled in the snow.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.

Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.

It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the merely vulgar seem commonplace.

A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor.

Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

People come in and out of our lives to teach us. And we teach other people. It's part of the process. They come in and they go out. Some stay for longer than others.

A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.

Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

Success has nothing to do with happiness.

Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house.

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

We are born to be ourselves-in need of upgrading the gene-to look back again and again and befriend the person we once intended to become.

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

Second place is the first loser.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.

Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.

Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.

I thought of a great way to celebrate my Finnish heritage at home. I'm going to look into opening a chain of strip clubs, and I'll call them Lapland!!!

It's so much easier to be cynical.

I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.