Quotes About Moments

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

I don't like the idea of pre-meditated music. Things like free-styling, the element of surprise - I think people need to scale back and re-focus on making moments again.

In terms of the music, it feels almost like trouble's a good thing - you never know when a song is going to surprise you. We look for these subversive moments in songs.

Well, because my films are really about how people interact with each other, and the complexity, and the nuance, and the surprise of those moments I try to create a safe enough space that allows the actors to operate from their own instincts. My direction is more suggestions, prompts or questions.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

Throughout my career, there has always been an element of surprise. Sometimes there are moments of disappointment; sometimes there are moments of surprising success.

One of the things I admire about longer stories is the way writers can work with dead time and slower, more idle moments - not only can they feel expansive, they feel lived-in; the unhurried pacing often makes the endings even more resonant and surprising for me.

There were a lot of surreal, amazing moments during my career that I'm very lucky to have had.

I have these surreal moments where I'm like, 'I'm pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal's baby' and 'I'm telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.' But you're acting, so the focus is on the work.

It's been some surreal moments, you know from performing at Buckingham Palace to having dinner with Stevie Wonder, it's been an amazing ride.

In his better moments, Mr Baxter is a decent, ordinary guy — a guy you wouldn't mistake for anyone special. But he is special. In my book, he is. For one thing he has a full night's sleep behind him, and he's just embraced his wife before leaving for work. But even before he goes, he's already expected home a set number of hours later. True, in the grander scheme of things, his return will be an event of small moment — but an event nonetheless.

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

can't say anything just yet. Then I go, "Holly, these things, we'll look back on them too. We'll go, 'Remember the motel with all the crud in the pool?' Ã¢â'¬Â I go, "You see what I'm saying, Holly?

Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.

The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips.

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

Those who doubt that these moments matter should note how terrified the authorities and elites are when they erupt. That fear signifies their recognition that popular power is real enough to overturn regimes and rewrite the social contract. And it often has. Sometimes your enemies know what your friends can't believe. Those who dismiss these moments because of their imperfections, limitations, or incompleteness need to look harder at what joy and hope shine out of them

It's the unpredictable incidents between official events that add up to a life, the incalculable that gives it value.

Liminal moments. Those moments apart from time when you are gripped. Taken. When you are so fully absorbed in what you are doing that time ceases to exist. Those early morning birthday moments were liminal, Sidda thought. Momma knew how to embrace liminality inspite of (or maybe because of) her emotional acrobatics. Momma taught me rapture.

Life is short, but wide.

How many years went by unnoticed, unembraced?

Uncountable the number off breaths I've taken for granted in my life.

Uncountable the number of breaths I've taken for granted in my life.

Nepat?kam?m atmi??m piemita kut kas labs: t?s atg?din?ja, ka esi bijis laim?gs, ja ar? pirms mirk?a v?l dom?ji, ka t?ds neesi. Laim?gam b?t ir realat?vs j?dziens. Kurš to apjautis reti j?tas gluži nelaim?gs. /The Night in Lisabon/