R- THE DON Quotes

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.

I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.

What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm.

Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum.

Give us being and feeling over having any day.

If it's possible to send a message from heaven, I'll get one to you.

When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.

I'll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

I'm not big on regret - until time travel actually exists, it seems like a waste of making yourself feel bad

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.

I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.

I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.

I like getting married, but I don't like being married.

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.

I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.

Then, on my way to California, I decided to stop in New York to do some research. I couldn't leave, because that's where the music was!

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

Men should be explorers no matter how old they are.

We seem to be paying some of our employees an awful lot of money.

I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.

Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins.

At first glance, the idea that some UFOs may be vehicles from outside the Earth seems utterly preposterous, the baseless result of wishful thinking by highly unscientific minds.

Bayesian statistics is difficult in the sense that thinking is difficult.

The artesian well of joy never runs dry. We clog it with our thoughts.

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.

WHEN YOUR HEART IS ALIVE, you are always beautiful. Always. Even in the morning.

Frank is capable of any kind of behavior to win.

Be Luke Skywalker, not Darth Vader. Ultimately love is stronger than evil.

Those were my children being slaughtered.

I think that it's much more important to do than to say. And you learn that a lot from your kids, who are watching you, you know?

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.

If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don't we just call it historical fiction?

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.