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If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.

I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas.

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.

It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about.

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference.

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

When I'm feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I'm feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I'll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I'll turn around and do it again.

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.

I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later.

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.

Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself.

I have certain strong interests that fill my life as well.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.