I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often

do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.
Stanley Hauerwas

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.
Allison Anders

In low comedy, a character gets hit in the head, and you don't really believe it. In farce, he's hit in the head, but he must be hit in the head. The character requires it.
Mark Linn-Baker

Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
Sam Altman

One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am.
Michel Faber

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.
John Updike

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.
Rhea Perlman

Playing music was always a part of my life; I don't know anything else.
Mark Salling

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.
Joyce Meyer

I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
Mark Shriver