For The People Quotes
Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)
...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.
I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.
In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.
You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.
The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.
Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.
I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.
I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people's expectations. You will always let them down. There will always be something they won't like about you.
Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.
The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.
I grew up in a world before people had credit cards. There were no magic cards - it was all about budgeting.
It doesn't matter what people feel about you because everyone is going to have an opinion.
Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state.
When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony or Mr. Hopkins, whatever name I'm called.
In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.
The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.
I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldnt be the bad guy in the joke; he couldnt upset people, really.
It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.
years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.
In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.
There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
Twitter is a kind of verbalization of people yelling at their television sets or gnashing their teeth at the newspaper.
Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.
Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars.
By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.
In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.
What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!
