R.J. Lawrence Quotes

The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.

Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

The map appears to us more real than the land.

Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.

But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has "struck out."

For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!

I find no foeman in the road but fear; to doubt is failure and to dare success.

Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.

I think it's fine for a singer to sing someone else's song. But the thing I don't like is when a singer that can write songs starts getting someone else to do it for them.

I don't think there's any problem with working with a songwriter or a producer, but I just don't think you should completely hand it over to them.

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.

If anyone wants to know the weirdest thing, it's getting your hair cut and seeing it on the news. Terrorists probably knew about my haircut.

I'm going to do my thing and if you react a certain way - with pity or with anger - that's up to you.

Anybody that makes fun of me, I'm like, 'Yeah, and then I got touched by Hugh Jackman'

When I dance, I look like I'm a dad at a prom. I never grasped my limbs. Ever since puberty I've just kind of felt like we don't understand each other.

Across all fields, women are generally paid 21 percent less than men.

Everybody has this idea: You have children, and your entire life is complete. That's how I imagine it. I imagine I'll have children and then my whole life will just seem complete.

You're not gonna give somebody more money if they don't ask for it.

I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels… Potatoes! Bread!

More women have to be in charge of studios, so that they can greenlight films with women.

Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?

I think the biggest reason that actors are complete a-holes as soon as they become famous is because they forget that this a job. They think that it's about them, and it's not.

I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head.

I think women can be just as sexist. Women can be misogynistic, too - more so, they have more freedom to do it.

I feel like I got a ticket to go to another planet and I'm moving there and there's no turning back, and I don't know if I'm going to like that other planet or have friends there.

A bad word that I can't say that starts with f.

If you don't look like an airbrushed model ... you have to look past it. You look how you look. What are you going to do?

I like when things are hard; I'm very competitive. If something seems difficult or impossible, it interests me.

You don't want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is only a theory, the more you try and keep it secret, the more the media tries to crack it open.

I'm still getting used to everything. It still makes me a little emotional, just to see how quickly everything kind of changes - that it changes so fast.

Sometimes I feel like a vampire

Like backstage, I just peed like every 3 seconds. I think yur staff thinks I have diarrhea.

I don't trust a girl who doesn't have any girlfriends.

Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school.

I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.

I just think it should be illegal to call someone fat on TV... Because why is humiliating people funny?

When people get more me, they'll hate me.

It's something I always tell myself: 'You need to calm the f--k down. You don't want to constantly be a GIF.

It was really impulsive. I was just like, I'm cutting it! And then it was just all gone.

I don't like going out that much. When I'm out, I think about my couch.

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

My agent called me at 5:30am, and I thought the set of my movie had burned down, or Josh [Hutcherson] had died, or something…I didn’t realize! I was so tired!