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Directing action scenes is really just pure visual storytelling that just makes sense to me pretty intuitively.

I've always felt the man is king of the house and should be amused and treated well.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.

Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

Germany is one of the medium powers of the world. It is a non-nuclear power. It is in a lower class than the United States, the Soviet Union, France, the United Kingdom and others.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

The orchid's association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to Confucius himself, who was said to have a particular attachment to the flowers.

Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. (127)

A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel - or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good - and as bad - as the man who carries it.

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed to compress events, combine characters, change names, change the sequence of events, just as if he's writing a novel. But it's got to be true.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.