Willem Dafoe Quotes

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

Willem Dafoe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1955

Topics

WorkBestDo Your BestThinkMystery

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

John Clute

TellFictionLocationExistBecause

I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.

Michael J. Fox

LifeGoodThinkBadGood And Bad

A long, negative review I wrote of Rushdie's novel 'Fury' earned me a rebuke from the writer: He told an administrator at the college where I teach, and who had invited Rushdie to come speak, that he wouldn't share the stage with me.

Amitava Kumar

CollegeMeNegativeSpeakLong

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

Steve Lacy

StylePeopleLanguageLearnSharks

We need to push for work-family practices and policies that allow individuals to customize their work lives according to their changing individual preferences and family obligations, not just their traditional gender roles.

Stephanie Coontz

WorkFamilyPushGenderNeedJust

You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.

Steven Levitt

BusinessMoneyFoolEthicsPeople

What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.

Rob Bell

GodBelieveHellHeavenImportant

When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.

Jared Kushner

ExperienceNew YorkCollegeNew

I really believe that some things happen for a reason, and they make you a better person.

Divyanka Tripathi

Better PersonBelieveBetterYou

The mission of the A.R.T. is to expand the boundaries of theater through works of the canon and the new works of tomorrow.

Diane Paulus

TomorrowMissionNewBoundaries

It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.

Douglas Hurd

LifeSpiritualPeopleGrowDoneUp

I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.

China Machado

WomenAgeTimeI AmWorldThink

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