Quotes About Presence

My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' is one of my favorite movies; it's a film that's a human comedy, it's a drama, and the characters all, in a way, fit the teenage archetypes, but they don't become stereotypes because each of the actors brought their own presence and their own personality to the screen.

I would say if you're young, if you're a teenager, act in plays, as many plays as you can. It's an amazing way to build your craft and an amazing way to build your presence.

I really believe in the power of social control coming from within the community itself. The community protecting itself, its children, its teenagers, you know? I think that's far more effective than a police presence.

Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.

That's the thing about film acting and television acting. You just release yourself and do what is true for the moment, and ignore everybody and everything and all the technical razzmatazz that goes on.

I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.

American television, for all its faults, still has a black presence in shows and even in commercials. You'll see black people in automobile ads, black women starring on their own television shows. We don't see that on British television.

I don't think of myself as anything more than a person who sits in the living room with you telling you a story. I just happen to be in 16 million living rooms.

When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

I so wish my dad was alive to see me do a Hindi film after acting in six Telugu movies. I sometimes imagine him giving me feedback on my work. But I derive strength from knowing he is watching over me.

It's time for Telugu cinema to make its presence felt.

It's not even a lesson. It's just what it is." Damon holds the baseball up between them. It is hard and white and alive in the sun.

Presence remembered is presence still.

The sound of your voice, your radiant looks, Your smell the smell of your hair and many other things will live on inside me.

If you stay right where you are, then people will eventually come to you

straightening to his full height. Intimidation

You have carried a branch of tomorrow into the room-its frangrance awakened me.

It is fascinating to note how often in the history of Christianity the teaching concerning Jesus's presence in the Eucharist

Love is the only way to win the free response of men, and this is possible only by the presence of Christ within the heart.

If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.