Quotes About Awakening

After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

I love the idea of waking up to a song. It could be any song.

Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.

I am Indian, and my home is Kampala. My world is already diverse. But films are financed by those who want to see themselves on screen, and it is a white male world. Still, it does feel like America is waking up. Let's hope it's the start of an avalanche.

The waking up of a people is historic. It shows the end of a cycle.

The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It's not that we are extremists. It's that the world is waking up. It's waking up all over, and people are standing up.

Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up lot of young people with that knowledge. They bring their enlightenment to the world; the world that is buying their records.

When John Coltrane passed, we were in the church for the memorial. Albert Ayler came walking in playing, real out there. He was actually mourning through his horn. Mourning, but it was also like a call to wake up. Wake up!

It's amazing what your brain can do when all your senses are heightened.

I think, as ever, with a big change like Brexit, it's awakened people's interest in politics.

For me, I always like to get up bright and early.

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

Sometimes it takes a sudden change to make you realise just how bad things were.

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.

The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

When Kubrick called me about 'The Shining,' it was very strange. He first asked me to write music for his film, but I instead gave him suggestions about some of my pieces. I told him about 'The Awakening of Jacob,' which he did use in 'The Shining.'

I like to reactivate my body after a long journey by getting the sun in my eyes.

The inspiration for 'Ai Dil Mere' happened at 4:30 A.M. on a Sunday.

If you think your world isn't poetic enough, or exciting enough to tell a story about, that's not because it's a dull world, that's because you're not poet enough to wake its soul up.

But if the endlessly dead awakened a symbol in us, perhaps they would point to the catkins hanging from the bare branches of the hazel-trees, or would evoke the raindrops that fall onto the dark earth in springtime.-- And we, who have always thought of happiness as rising , would feel the emotion that almost overwhelms us whenever a happy thing falls .