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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?
I normally talk to my players about everyday situations, and there are not really any secrets.
We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.
I'll adapt to any situation. I've been adapting to different situations my whole life.
We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want.
There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.
Never have one kid in the room with you, and avoid situations that would look suspect to a passerby.
When you find yourself in those situations where you have to take action in a crucial situation, you just do it.
With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.
I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.
I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.
Television production is so insane. There's so many moving parts and flying pieces and you're desperate to make it cohesive and artistic and have something to say about the human condition that feels like it has value to its existence.
I actually thought 'Desperate Housewives' finished very well. I just think there's still stories to be told. I feel like I get that from fans that they weren't done watching those people's lives.
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
I'm doing my bit for the women's movement. The women have always been naked in movies, and now I'm just desperate to take my clothes off as much as possible.
Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.
This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.
I like to put people into situations that are out of their comfort zone and see what happens.
I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly
You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.
I think when people get stuck in situations that go against their soul, they can't be happy. That's all.
I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.
I show women growing, changing, becoming stronger in many kinds of situations.
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.
There are certain situations, when you're in America, when people understand you better without an Australian accent.
I was lucky because my upbringing was so eccentric. It has helped me cope with unreal situations.
Some of our best episodes of 'Buffy' were written over a weekend. You can really get in touch with your creative spirit when you're at your most desperate.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
I am always frustrated when I see situations that could have been handled simpler.
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
I've been in lots of situations in my life where I've managed to turn pain into growing pains.
There have been situations where the people you're around have one vision for you, and it's like trying on a jacket that doesn't fit.
I hope the reader's sense that I am deeply empathetic with the pain of being in a desperate marriage, but I also believe that the person who is married to the abuser or the alcoholic or whomever has the greatest potential for helping them.
The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.
If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself.
Studies say great harm can be done to a person if the connection between mother and child isn´t there from the start. Love is a basic need/instinct, and people can get quite desperate and become destructive if they don´t have it.
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
I felt desperately sad, because it's a real shock in the 21st century, where we're fortunate to live in amazing country like the U.K., that there are areas where young women feel so desperate about what their future should be.
Sometimes staying strong means not putting yourself in uncomfortable or triggering situations.
I don't have a problem with conflict. I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.
Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.
I have always been able to handle situations well once they've happened to me.
The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
Everyday life inspires me, the situations that we all find ourselves in at one time or another.
When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy.
There is desperate education inequality in America, and I think every kid deserves a good teacher and a good school regardless of the ZIP code that he or she lives in.
Ask yourself what you could do to make situations less difficult. Do it, even if you think you shouldn't have to.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.
If the youth has a good foundation, then I think they won't grow into the bad situations they get into.
It's inevitable that tough situations will come up, but it's how you react that is the challenge.
Politicians seem desperate to appeal to their respective versions of the so called 'middle class,' unable to empathise with the precariat and eager to dream up fresh and tougher sanctions against society's wounded.
I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.
The people at the Café Lehmitz had a presence and a sincerity that I myself lacked. It was okay to be desperate, to be tender, to sit all alone or share the company of others. There was a great warmth and tolerance in this destitute setting.
