W.J. Cameron Quotes

I only feel like myself when I am alone.

I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.

And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? “You there, Annie in Ohio, I see you laughing a lot and frankly it really pisses Me off . . . “ (50)

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.

How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.

One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.

A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.

If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.

What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.

You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn't. Some people are 'I'm not in the mood for that; thanks.'

Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you my kind of success.

When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it's all part of the same journey that you get to take with the artist you're interested in. It's a balancing act.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

That's how I am as a director - if somebody does a really good take, I can't help it, I'm not even aware of it. Actors really, really need positive reinforcement.

I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.

I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.

We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.

RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

I believe in fate and what's meant to be mine will be mine, and if it's not in my lap, then it's not mine.

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

I think humor is the best gift, and if you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?

I never felt I had to prove myself with anything.

I'm not looking for a husband or marriage or not not looking for that stuff. I'm living, not thinking what I should or shouldn't be doing with my life.

I'm not ashamed of being a bubbly, funny person. I think that's as valid as being the dark, brooding, tortured Oscar-nominated one.

I think a lot of people are married to people that they're not romantic with anymore. I just didn't ever marry anybody that I then had to get divorced from. We break up. We move on.

It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in this day and age.

The truth has no temperature.

I think we have to make our own rules. I don't think we should live our lives in relationships based off of old traditions that don't suit our world any longer.

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

Sometimes I enjoy talking, but when it's like people are trying to find something out about me, I don't.

I do feel like there's a spirit and a tone you can set that lets people know that they're appreciated for being there. It's a sense of spirit that I think every film should have.

I know that in my life my girlfriends are one of the most important relationships I have going through the good times and the bad times.

I love to cry. It's such a great release. If I'm just tired - jetlagged, I didn't get any sleep, I want to cry. I think it's important to cry.

I have gratitude. I know myself better. I feel more capable than ever. And as far as the physicality of it, I feel better at 40 than I did at 25.