There's a certain exhaustion that sets in when screenwriters are approaching sequels, and they start to lean on crutches - those same old wacky characters!
A lot of times, when I'm approaching pre-production and my job, and trying to research and work on the script and whatnot it's always different.
The great minds approaching understanding will admit they continually gain more questions and less answers.
We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV.
The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.
Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.
The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.
No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.
Why not make a habit of approaching life in the right spirit, joyously, expectantly, and with absolute faith that only the very best is for you?
When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.
If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life.
Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
The day of judgment is either approaching or
it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I
choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be
brought.
There are only a few times in a batsman's life when he gets really eager: when you want to get off the mark or when you are approaching 100 or 200.
Approaching the treadmill I tell myself, 'Okay, it's just 10 minutes, after that you can get off the thing'. That's no time at all.
When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something approaching to that of Versailles, with clipped hedges, berceaus, and trellis work.
I think the print media have failed to make the most of their opportunity. They may all disappear because they are approaching things in the wrong way.
I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.
Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski.
Their understanding
Begins to swell and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
That now lie foul and muddy.
I don't think a lot of people really understand the commitment it takes to being a character that an actor in Hollywood would take to approaching a role that they're doing.
I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.
If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.
A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.
People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.
The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.
Once it gets down to single-digit games, you know the season's end is approaching, and we're all pretty physically tired.
Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.
If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.
By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.
If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.
I was told that since I am such an opinionated woman, people would think 10 times before approaching me for their films.
Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.
There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science. I'm not much worried about this.
I don't think that sliding down a wall with a bottle of Sancerre in your hand at 6:30 in the morning is particularly attractive when you're approaching 40 and you've got a kid.
When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.
I think as you're approaching Draft day, you're thinking about all of the possibilities, and you know that's one way you can improve your club.
I think 'Green Lantern' has the potential to be a very highly regarded superhero movie. We're approaching it with such respect and such care.
No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored.
Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.
Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.
I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.
The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.
Approaching people is not - it's ironic that it's what I do - but it's not necessarily what I enjoy doing. Later on, I'm fine. Once we get talking I have a great time but not in the beginning.
The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day.
I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can.
How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.
If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.
I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'
I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal.
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