N. T. Wright Quotes

I wish my father could be around.

Not everybody has things that become classics.

I always wanted to do something completely different.

I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.

I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

I'm doing music that I like and that I hope other people will like too.

Every artist usually has one or two songs that really define their careers.

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

As far as a defining moment, that was a hugely successful and very busy time for me. 1975, 1976, 1977 - that whole time frame.

The more far-out artists, the better.

My career has kind of taken on a life of its own.

When you have a lot of hits and your career starts to go down, but then your music starts to slowly go up again.

My goal is really to continue to make music.

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.

The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw the light.

The reason why things work is because of love.

Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.

As much as we teach our kids, the process teaches us. If we're being diligent, we're learning from our strengths as parents, but also from the mistakes that we make.

New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.

You're a master on blues piano. The real deal.

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus of mine, probably more than what is healthy for me.

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.

I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.

And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

I think that criticism is unjustified. It's a cute term, but noone shouldn't be criticized for who he is.

I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.

I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.

I'm quite spontaneous in my decisions often. Your career is kind of what happens whilst you're busy developing other screenplays, and so it came out of the blue.

I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension.

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

I think Pan is a superhero movie; I mean, the kid flies in the end.

I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

My first cut that I showed the studio was probably 2hrs 20min.

3D doesn't work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.