Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
I don't even really see sit-ins and marches as passive. I see them as quite assertive. I see those as emotionally aggressive tactics. I see people putting their lives on the line and being bold and brave.
There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.
Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
Liability is being assessed against companies who inadvertently have shipped a virus to another company. Rather than risk the incredibly bad PR, these companies fork over.
I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
When I filmed 'Power Rangers,' almost everything was being assisted by a green screen, but it wasn't the same with 'Stranger Things.'
But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.
In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license.
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.
My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.
