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Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'

I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.

I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'

By definition startups usually do not turn a profit.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.

When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients was going to mix together, what it was going to produce.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Time is the thing. A show like this pulls all your time away from you. Usually I'll get home from work on a Saturday about 10am (after doing night shooting) and I'll sleep until Saturday afternoon. Saturday night and Sunday I'm usually feeling wiped out and I've not seen Holly all week. It's a pretty full-on life, but what do you do? I love my work and there are sacrifices.

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.