Pastoral Resources

We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.

I wouldn't accept losing as a team, wouldn't accept losing as my team. It's like a war every practice. I think it helped us a lot.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.

And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.