J.R. Stewart Quotes

You can assess a culture to a degree by the way they receive movies and how they receive a given celebrity.

I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they think our lives are and go for it.

As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.

You find in life that there are different levels of being in love with someone, and maybe everyone doesn't find that undeniable, indescribable... I can't describe it, it's indescribable.

The point is to stumble upon things in your life, and not plan them out.

Every movie that I've done, they don't stand independently from one another because a little bit of me is in every single one of those, and it's part of my own personal growth.

I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.

I've been doing things myself in the sense that I haven't had a night nurse or anything like that, so I've spent every night with baby except for the nights that I've had to travel.

I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them.

I kind of like to look like a hobo.

My God, I'm so in love with my boyfriend.

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.

I think it went Twilight, Welcome to the Rileys, New Moon, Runaways, then Eclipse, so it was like one of those movies between each Twilight movie.

Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.

My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.

Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers.

I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.

Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.

It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.

People say I have a picture perfect life, and I do

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

Is it my sweat that's no longer sweet?

I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don't want. It's like a cigarette tax.

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

It’s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill.

I'm going to make more money than I need in any outcome.

Ive got Arabic music in my blood.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

If you're searching for "work/life balance" you'll always be disappointed because "balance" connotes a zero-sum equation.

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.

Listen, just do what you think is right, and we'll support it." ~ Sticky Washington, The Prisoner's Dilemma

I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma

The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith.

You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.

Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.

We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

No one is better at not beating America than England.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?