Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.
I've had cumulative concussions and realized that's something you carry with you.
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen.
Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.
I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.
Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.
It's unfortunate that cyberbullying is something that happens to 13-year-old kids in junior high and adults in the workplace. It's something that we have to deal with as Americans.
Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.
Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew.
You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.
And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.
When I coach dancers, I always like to get on the dance floor with them or describe something by showing them.
To be against something or someone, it's a dangerous thing.
There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
David Frum, every now and again, comes up with something pretty darn brilliant.
