R.J. Lawrence Quotes

I must follow them. I am their leader.

It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day.

By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.

Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.

Fans can't ruin shows. Only creators can.

In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.

I am done with the hour-long [true crime] shows: "She was a happy married wife. Everything was perfect. Until the trip to Aruba."

When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.

Until I created my own shows, I had nothing but bad experiences on staffs.

Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

The writing is what's most important to me.

With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.

If something's working, you lean into it. You don't fight it.

One of the things I'm proud of is my ability to change directions if something's not working.

You have to lean into the turn. On every creative aspect, you have to lean into what's working.

I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.

If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all would please that came from Him.

If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for no other reason than His presence is a delight to our souls and spirit.

That there needed neither art nor science for going to GOD, but only a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, or for His sake, and to love Him only.

I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.

Now, if I had an Indian name, it would be "Stands in Confusion".

If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.

It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

Man is a thought-adventurer.

The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.

I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.

Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still

[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.

If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?

There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.