Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Coco Chanel

In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.

Bill Conti

I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone.

David Friedman

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

Daniel Craig

guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.

Toni Morrison

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Mark Twain

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

Godfrey Reggio

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

George Harrison

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

George Bernard Shaw

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

Daniel Craig

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley