Tim Quotes
I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.
Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.
The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.
I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.
You have to make a decision. You have to believe. Once you start doubting, you change your brain chemistry and you're done.
When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.
But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.
What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.
A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.
I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.
Men often do things for women that they don't want to do, so that women will do things for men that they don't want to do.
Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.
The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.
Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.
Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity.
Life is not without a little adventure, Adventure is not without a little danger, Success is not without a little failure
Different tenses and perspectives offer you different things. It helps to distinguish the world that they are in.
Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.
I've gotten so far past the Android and iPhones that I'm back to a flip-phone. It's funny, you can buy antique flip-phones online. A lot of us collect them. Clearly, they're considered antiques.
Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.
It happens that we DON’T SEE CHRIST AS GOD but simply the right man at the right time at the right place.
I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.
The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.
Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.
I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.
