You answer anger with love. You answer anger with selflessness. The answer to anger is always the opposite thing of anger.
Excellence always sells.
School was a big source of anxiety for me. I hated school. I have social anxiety, and it developed when I was a kid. I had trouble going to birthday parties. It was always there. I begged my mom to let me be home-schooled at one point for a semester because I was so miserable at school.
In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, 'Law school will always be there.' I was in no hurry to get right into that.
The simplification of anything is always sensational.
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly - being thin was in my genes.
One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.
Love scenes are extremely difficult. You're always within a millimeter of sentimentality and 'yuck.'
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.
I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.
I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.
Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.
Of course many children are dreaming to play for Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Manchester United. I always just wanted to wear the jersey of Partizan, Newcastle, and Serbia.
Serendipity always rewards the prepared.
I've always been a serial monogamist.
I think there's always room for humor, especially when you're talking about really serious issues.
I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.
