Quotes About Boundaries

Art is a way into other realities, other personalities. When I let myself be affected by a book, I let into myself new customs and new desires. The book does not reproduce me, it re-defines me, pushes at my boundaries, shatters the palings that guard my heart. Strong texts work along the borders of our minds and alter what already exists. They could not do this if they merely reflected what already exists.

Viitorul, prezentul È™i trecutul nu exist? decât în mintea noastr?, iar de la dep?rtare marginile li se micÈ™oreaz? È™i li se înceÈ›oÈ™eaz? precum graniÈ›ele unor ??ri duÈ™mane, v?zute dintr-un oras plutitor, tocmai de pe bolt?.

It works because the principle of personal space is always the same, whether you're fending off an elemental or someone's bad mood. It's a force field around yourself, and as long as our imagining powers are weak, it's useful to have something to remind us.

Walls protect and walls limit.

The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...

Los límites de lo posible en las cosas morales son más estrechos de lo que pensamos; nuestras debilidades, nuestros vicios, nuestros prejuicios son lo que restringen

You're not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business.

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.

Think inside the work - outside the work

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

I'm not scheduling my entire life to death in order to be able do the work I've got to do. So at the moment I'm quite happy.

I don't want to work all of the time.

Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize youÂ've made too much of it, to remember it doesnÂ't define you.

Costumes, fashion, it's all an expression of self, and the more you push the boundaries - the more that people work at creating alternative ideas - the more it changes people's ideas of beauty.

I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.