West Quotes - Page 18

I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.

I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.

Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

I've always wanted to do a Western.

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

California: The west coast of Iowa.

I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!

There is one rule for the G-7 (richest countries) and another for the South. The G-7 now preaches open economies and liberalization, as well as 'good governance' and 'transparency'. Yet none of these things was conspicuous when the West grew rich.

You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said. You got that right," I told him.

When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

Most people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift and go off base, but it seems like my staff as well as the audience, doesn't quite realize that this has happened. Don't tell them about it.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

Unfortunately, in Russia this "Asian mentality,"still comes to the fore. But at the same time, it is obvious that there is a certain orientation toward the West. In the end, this is a fragile balancing act between the Asian manner of governance and high living standards that are guaranteed through Western technology.

I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?

He found me when I was at my lowest point.

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.