Pastoral Resources

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.

I didn't get to the Senate by accident.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

One does not become a guru by accident.

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

If men have a smell it's usually an accident.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.