#neil

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. - Neil deGrasse Tyson's response on Reddit when asked "What can you tell a young man looking for motivation in life itself?" http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments... ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#meaning #motivation #neil-degrasse #science #successful-people

LAVINIA: He made me feel for the first time in my life that everything about love could be sweet and natural... I have a right to love! ↗

— Eugene O'Neill

#mourning-becomes-electra #life

This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#infinite #infinite-worlds #neil-gaiman #worlds #authority

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blessings #crystal #desert #die #gospel

Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him. ↗

— Alex Lifeson

#both #done #experience #get #good

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#family #general #general manager #grandfather #manager

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea. ↗

— Steve Martin

#americanized #anyone #ask #classic #could

What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#doing #exactly #finn #friends #his

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#dot #every #jokes #means #neil

I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us. ↗

— Carrie Snodgress

#facing #fell #having #i #intensity