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I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. ”
I was a Fine Art major. You do a bit of everything until the final year, when you specialise. I did pencil drawing and sculpture. It's a pretty well-rounded fine art education. I thought that it was viable option to make a living out of art. I'm not sure if I was thinking realistically; maybe I never was. But it had great appeal. ”
What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience. ”
The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality. ”
Anyone who has trouble imagining causality as magical and uncanny need only consider the existence of children. ”
Kant described beauty as a feeling of ungraspability: this is why the beauty experience is beyond concept. ”
Before there was Bjork, there was Prince. That's a very simple encapsulation of my personal pop life. ”
At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a 'head,' a student of the inner spiritual world - or in modern terms, a neurologician. Modern physicists do not dwell on this dramatic life-change in their hero. ”
I was 19 when I got my first passport as an adult. I had moved from California to New York City and was living out of a suitcase, staying with friends. I'd just finished filming my first movie, 'Ordinary People,' but I didn't know whether acting was what I wanted to do with my life. ”
A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and it's immediate, and people write about it. ”