Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. Use this quote
I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.' Use this quote
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. Use this quote
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat. Use this quote
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. Use this quote
It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema. Use this quote
I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. Use this quote
New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture. Use this quote
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Use this quote
I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims. Use this quote
I enjoy sports in person. Use this quote
I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything. Use this quote
People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic. Use this quote
Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees. Use this quote
If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space. Use this quote
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know. Use this quote
If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to. Use this quote
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. Use this quote
Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible. Use this quote
When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers. Use this quote
