F. F. Bruce Quotes
My overall responsibility is to be truthful. If people pay money to come and see me, looking for something other than that, then they've made a mistake.
We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.
There are so many people I love in the United States, and I've had such great adventures in this country and have been so well received by people here.
Love the Lord and in him love me too. And in him, go your own way and I'll be right here with you.
I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm traveling toward light.
In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.
The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.
Like a stone on the surface of a still river Driving the ripples on forever Redemption rips through the surface of time In the cry of a tiny babe.
I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song: My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.
There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.
Sun's up, uh huh, looks okay - the world survives into another day, and I'm thinking about eternity. Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me.
I don't know what he has. A pulled groin. A hip flexor. I don't know. A pulled something. I never pulled anything. You can't pull fat.
Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.
That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.
I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.
I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.
I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.
If you are willing to expose your heart...being publicly private, you just may do something.
I'm a big wilderness, mountain guy. I love to go up in the mountains and I can just sit for hours and just look at the mountains.
The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out.
Everybody can't be like Redford and pop out there and make big bucks right away because you look like a Greek god... The guy's a friend of mine and he has absolutely no privacy in his life.
I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.
I'm not good at living in the grim places...when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.
In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.
I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.
I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.
I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.
The biggest idea that I have learned - I basically went in to write a book about Adam and Eve, ended up writing a book about love. And what did I learn? Love is a story you tell with another person.
The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down
