Quotes About Journey

We're all a beautiful, wonderful work in progress....Embrace the process!

I actually had to start from nothing and build my own way out of it by making financial goals... It's been an interesting journey but one I can relate to in terms of struggling.

Mr. Rogers would not make a good protagonist of a narrative film. He's without conflict, he's too far along on his journey toward enlightenment to be a good protagonist. Our protagonists have to be struggling with demons in a certain way.

Whenever we've approached a story, it's always started with the character, and the idea of some character struggling with some part of himself. That's what gets us in.

All the work I do is personal, so the good stuff and the bad stuff that you see in there is all good stuff and bad stuff that I have, and part of the journey, for me, has been to embrace these things that I find embarrassing about myself: my stubbornness, my ego, my maudlin-ness - these things that I see myself do, and I go, 'Oh, David, stop that!'

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

It took me quite a while to find my natural voice. I'm glad I stuck around long enough to see that happen.

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

For reasons I can't remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church's beliefs. I dabbled a little, but nothing stuck.

I'll just drive around if I'm stuck on something or have a case of writer's block.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

I'll always be a student of music.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.

I always tell my students that, in fiction, the opening is a clue to the work's DNA: not only what it is, but what it will become, where it will lead you.

I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school in New York.

I studied mass media and brand management and was looking to do an MBA. When an acting offer came by, I thought I'll do one film so that it would look good on my CV. Films happened one after another, in different industries. I'm so glad things turned out the way they did.

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

I'm a Muslim Egyptian-American, born in Cairo. I grew up in Kuwait until the first Gulf War, when my family relocated to the United Arab Emirates. As an adult, I studied and lived in the U.K. before moving to Boston.

I became an actress and studied human emotions so that I could give the gift of feelings to my son. This is what my whole journey has been about.

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.

In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to understanding where where, where they come from, and where they are going.

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

We met in our hometown of St. Albans when I had just left school and Stephen was starting his Ph.D. studies in Cambridge.