Able Quotes - Page 145

To me to be a storyteller is you got to be able to speak the truth. You've got to be able to absorb life and take in life and be able to interpret it in a way that anybody in this room could say, "Man, that's my story. I can relate to that."

I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.

It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

For me, as a film goer, I like nothing more than to sit in the cinema, have the lights go down and not know what I'm about to see or unfold on-screen. Every time we go to make a film, we do everything we can to try to systematise things so we're able to make the film in private, so that when it's finished it's up to the audience to make of it what they will.

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

We would not be enjoying those cellphones and those tablets at the price where they are had it not been for globalization, both in terms of trade and in terms of constant technological innovation.

Even now, I'm better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves, the misfits.

If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.

It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.

Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square.

I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?

My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

Even the worst feeling, with time and familiarity, became tolerable.

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables.