Quotes on Time

I did community theater for a long time and never had an agent. And then I got an agent and I remember that was my introduction to her telling me I wasn't enough as I was. She told me, 'You're going to have to change your hair. No one wants to see a Black woman with dreadlocks on television.' And I believed it.

A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a bit instructive.

I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language - when you watch a film or listen to a tape - you don't press pause.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not.

For those of us in the opposition movement under dictatorships, part of our job is confronting police and spending time in prison. So, a dissident not only needs to learn how to oppose oppression but also how to face the crackdowns and time in prison.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass.

Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

Every time I dance, I'm trying to prove myself to myself.

I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative. I was a PA for a long time. I was working as an assistant editor on 'Iron Chef America' when I got 'SNL.' It was one of those situations where you're concentrating in one thing and the peripheral thing popped.

You can't have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.