Quotes for All
I’ve figured out that I don’t want to spend all of my spare time trying to make money. But, with things like fame or internet presence – things you cannot cash in at the bank – there is still a sense that more is better and that your career should be following a certain trajectory. … Read more
I can look back and recognize the things I’ve done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes the wrongness was even clear at the time, though not as clear as it is now. But I did these things because I felt the pull of a trajectory, a sense of experience … Read more
There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline. Edward Abbey
The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away. The way back seems harder every year. If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the … Read more
In my career, I’ve had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff, but then I had a terrible problem with stage fright as an actor on stage, and I quit stage acting for a long, long time. Fred Melamed
But fairness is where we’re heading, at least in regard to marriage, which has emerged as the terrain on which Americans are hashing out their feelings about gays and lesbians. The trajectory is undeniable. The trend line is clear. And the choice before the justices is whether to be handmaidens to history, or whether to … Read more
The markets are much more interested in America’s long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis. Fareed Zakaria
When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you’re just a kid, you don’t necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story, you’re working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it’s the same trajectory as growing as a person. F. Gary Gray
I don’t know if we ever have enough distance to “see” our own trajectory. We’re in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what will last, what poems will take hold of the imaginations of the future. Dorianne Laux
I look at Woody Allen’s prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I’m watching the clock. I’d love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don’t get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We’re presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just … Read more