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Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.
Once we decided to be in this industry, we have to be ready for everything. You have to be strong but hard working. No pain, no gain.
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that.
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
The Resurrection miracle is nothing to you and me if it is only an event of eighteen centuries bygone. Unless we can live the immortal life — unless we can receive God to his own home in these hearts of ours — the texts are nothing to us unless these daily lives illustrate them.
Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that's the true testament to where you are in your career — how many tickets are sold.
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.
You find what makes you happy, and it's usually being with the person you want to be with.
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