It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
When I do one thing for a long period of time, my attention is usually then drawn in the opposite direction.
Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.
Every time I hear a revenge story, I run the opposite direction. I just don't think such stories have any novelty value.
People spend a lot of time talking and thinking about how members of the opposite sex look, but very little time paying attention to how they sound. To our unconscious minds, however, voice is very important.
Most of the time when you're around the opposite sex, you kinda have to put on a show and not completely be yourself.
It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
Most of the time in America, we're surrounded by oppressive inequality such that the wealthiest 1 percent collectively own substantially more than the bottom 90 percent. One escape from that is America's wild places.
What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.
Black people are the only ones told to love our oppressors. I hate that. We've been loving our oppressors for a long time, and nothing has changed - that love has to be reciprocated.
First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.
If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.
