You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.
Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.
My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.
I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.
Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.
Lee Strasberg
I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.