The Way Quotes

We dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us.

I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories.

I am not quite myself, I think.But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.

There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in sitcoms. That's what the difference is.

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

Some people get in the way of change happening. Some people spend their whole careers thinking they can make a difference. Other people want to do as little as possible to get the day done.

You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.

Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

Thoughtful, energetic, smart, determined. I tried to own and further those qualities and often mustered them up when they were dormant and something wasn't going my way.

The moments that make life worth living are when things are at their worst and you find a way to laugh.

I like to be around entertaining people. Even if they're bored, and you're in a convalescent home, there's something entertaining about that, in a way.

I'd meet a new filmmaker that I'd always loved, and I'd think, "Great! I'm in the right place." It's a weird way to look at it, but I don't care as long as I'm able to make stuff that I want to make.

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.

I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.

Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them.

I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

We see things the way we are, not the way they are.

It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.

notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.

The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.

I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.

I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

We flew throughout the summer and fall and the start of winter. At first the whiteness gave way to the green of summer, and then gold covered the fields and forests, and then the whiteness again.

I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

I don't think more mega-summits is the way to secure effective implementation.

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.

Advertising is brilliant. It's an industry that spends billions and billions of dollars to get you to react the way it wants you to react.

As beings who cannot know the outcome of any particular action, it is difficult for us to act in a way that will be necessarily beneficial to another, or necessarily detrimental.

Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.

I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like.

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live.

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

I think everybody gets their recognition sometime down the road, and I have never been one to seek it. Besides, it has been that way throughout my career, especially in college.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.

I've got five months of aggression saved up, and I'll try and use that in a positive manner. I'll be aggressive, but in a controlled way.

Not that I wouldn't have been equally happy to see the old buddies and see it all start up again that way. But this was more of a work situation, and a very good one.

I like to work with children because their way of reacting to the world is simple, and they are innocent.

In so many ways, forces unleashed in response to the Movement have come to dominate our politics, and technology is allowing the same injustices to be seen anew.

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.

With the words, a lot of things start with questions. Some word kind of piques my interest, and I love the way it sounds, but I really don't know what it means. And I honestly don't care for a while.

Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.