Standing There

To be given the

To be given the reins of creativity is a beautiful thing when you’re used to just showing up to a casting and standing there having clothes put on you. Erin Wasson

It’s a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to … Read more

So I’m at the

So I’m at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon. Emo Philips

I went up to

I went up to Prince and said ‘I’m a big fan of your stuff’ and he looked at me and just walked off…left me standing there like a ****. He’s a prat, but a clever prat. Elton John

And the National Rifle

And the National Rifle Association says that, \”Guns don’t kill people, people do,\” but I think the gun helps, you know? I think it helps. I just think just standing there going, \”Bang!\” \”That’s not going to kill too many people, is it? You’d have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that. … Read more

A junkyard contains all

A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were … Read more

Desperation is a millstone.

Desperation is a millstone. It wears away at the very soul, grinding away pity, kindness, humanity and courage. But sometimes it whets the mind to a sharpened point and creates moments of true brilliance. And standing there, nose tickled by the dusty hide of the stuffed deer head, such a moment visited Mosca Mye. Frances … Read more

When I was standing

When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think about gaining scientific data. The only thing you want is to come back alive Felix Baumgartner

So I walked away

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight – watching over nothing. F. Scott Fitzgerald

I think one of

I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the set and see the director standing there mouthing all the words while a scene is going on, that’s usually a very bad sign because it means the director has already shot the scene … Read more