Making Quotes

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it.

Part of being young is making mistakes.

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.

I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.

We don't feel pressure of, 'Let's make this really raunchy.' It's more about making a good story, which is 10 times harder. The raunchy stuff's really easy for us.

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.