Quotes About Transition

After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

I have this eerie feeling that by the time I'm 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before. It's cool but also a little creepy.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time.

Each time demands its own kind of film.

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career-and then you move to Paris.

In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms.

Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.

My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.

I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

I was a first time bride at 44. I had never even lived with anybody. And after running my own business for many years, I knew how to be the boss - but I had no idea how to be a good partner.

They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.

I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.

Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

What we're witnessing really is a political realignment, I mean I think we're moving from a traditional understanding of left-right politics that we've had for a long time.

If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.

I started out coming out of college, I had my realtor's license and I did real estate full time for a number of years.

Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.