L.A. Paul Quotes
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones in Les Mats: the echo of this condemnation and a mitigation of that severity.
Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.
Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.
God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.
You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.
You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.
You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.
There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards.
We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're not as important as that.
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.
In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.
Photo of boy with white dirt on his faceYou may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
The naturalist picked up the eagle and said to it, "Thou dost belong to the sky and not to this earth; stretch forth thy wings and fly."
Quit thinking that tomorrow your problems will go away and life will begin in earnest. The Lord is waiting to help you cope today if you will lay your human-size needs at his divine feet.
You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.
In your 20s, you're checking your bank account to make sure you're not broke. In your 30s, you're looking at yourself and realizing you're broken.
Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.
You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first.
In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.
In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.
I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh.
I was looking for a last name that was a first name. Growing up, I knew a kid who was the most obnoxious kid I ever knew, and his last name was Herman.
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.
It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.
I was a dreamer. When I was on stage I didn't have to think about whether I could pay the rent. I was just having a great time.
I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.
Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.
Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.
Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours.
