In the hierarchy of public lands, national parks by law have been above the rest: America’s most special places, where natural beauty and all its attendant pleasures – quiet waters, the scents of fir and balsam, the hoot of an owl, and the dark of a night sky unsullied by city lights – are sacrosanct.
I think broadband is to the twenty-first century what electricity and electric lights were to the 20th century.
Many people say that my positive energy lights up the room, but I think it’s the people around me who give me strength.
I like something simple and traditional, like dinner and a movie. The best way to get to know someone is to have a conversation over dinner. And steak houses have a nice atmosphere – the lights are dim, and they usually have a band playing.
The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.
With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn’t thinking, ‘Oh, God, two more hours of this.’
We survived on natural resources, so we should take care of the earth. When I leave home, I do things like switching off the heat and lights.
For me, inspiration isn’t a sort of spark which lights the fire of the story. It’s more like a thread, one of many, which you can tease out of a story once it’s written, if you feel so inclined.
Since developing my blog and YouTube channel in 2013, Little Lights of Mine, I’ve connected with some of the most passionate people around the world.
I think that if you know people who are performers on stage and actresses or whatever it may be, the bottom line is what you do on stage. You just take on a different persona – that’s what makes her so successful. Lights come on, and suddenly, it’s Britney Spears, and the lights go off, and she’s just Britney.
My mother told me it’s better to start using anti-aging products even at a young age. Especially since I’m an actress, and I’m constantly under stage lights or exposed to a lot of sunlight.
It doesn’t matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn’t matter if you’re scared to death when the lights go on.
I’m not saying that photographers are dumber than other people, but they are the folks who walk around with brilliant white lights in nighttime riots.
Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I’m going to turn on the lights.
I always say, if I tell you a joke right now and it’s funny, you laugh. Now, we set the lights, and I tell you the joke again, it’s hard to find it funny the second time.
In ‘Friday Night Lights,’ the relationship between the coach and his wife, that marriage was something that you couldn’t really understand until you actually saw it exist on film.
My hair is brown with a tinge of red. The lights in NBA arenas are extremely bright, and that makes my hair look red.
I am a late discoverer of ‘Friday Night Lights.’ I cry every episode at least once. I love to cry – happy, emotional tears. I just love it.
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
The most frustrating thing to me is when I tell people I work on ‘Friday Night Lights,’ they’ll say, ‘Oh, I hear that’s a really good show.’ They never watched it.
He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn’t interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us.
As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.
As a child, I felt that Hallowe’en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life – we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners.
Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.
I know people think I’m just the Diego Sanchez from the Gilbert Melendez fight. Hook, hook, hook. A crazy brawler. But I realized the best possible fighter would not get hit. He’d close the distance and minimize the chances of the lights going out. I want to fight as long as I can and be as healthy as I can.
I used to live above Manganaro’s, when old Times Square was still peaking, and it still had a lot of diners and theaters on the forty deuce, as they used to call it. It was full of character. And it wasn’t Disneyland. Now it’s so touristy and full of bright lights, I can’t stand it. It’s like going to a big mall.
I’m not going to be the one who turns out the last lights of the last conglomerate. So we need to reinvent ourselves all the time.
TV kind of worked out naturally for me. I was fortunate to do a show like ‘Breaking Bad’ and then go straight into something like ‘Friday Night Lights.’ It’s not something I focus on, but when they’re great projects, I can’t pass them up.
If I could have my kids be great when the lights are on, whatever the moment is, to be accountable and then fix it, they’re going to be fine.
I’ve always felt I perform best under the brightest lights and the biggest moments.
In Denver, I was a homebody, and that’s a life I’d chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
There’s actually a song called ‘Vegas Lights,’ which I wanted to be an anthem for Vegas, that represented how I felt when I went to the clubs. I felt this weird energy where everybody was having a good time, and it didn’t matter. Dancing like nobody’s watching. It was kind of beautiful.
I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can’t have a conversation with you. I won’t eat, I won’t sleep, I’ll just meld with my couch.
When they see those fourteen lights, they’re looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever’s going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.
Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.
Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.
It’s weird to think I’m in a show in Vegas with my name in lights. It’s crazy, like a dream.
Every human society has its lights and its shadows. That’s the reality of existence.
My mother taught me to drive using the ‘Detroit Method,’ where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.
I loved ‘Friday Night Lights’ because it was totally committed to every facet of its storytelling. Incredible actors, story lines that weren’t easy or predictable. It made me laugh, and it broke my heart over and over again.
Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience – in a good and bad way – but it’s the only place I can go to feel comfortable.
I think 2014 for me is going to give me the possibility to do even bigger things than anyone has done. I want to change the party scene – like, stop just being a DJ with lights, a big LED screen, and oh-look-at-me speakers. There’s way more to a party, and I think everyone knows it. I want to make it special.
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
On Mir, the lights kept going out because it had developed so many electrical problems.
I like to dim the lights and talk about the ghosts I’ve known and invite other people to tell me their stories.
It’s odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn’t what you thought it was.
I used to have visions of flashing lights and red carpets.
I like looking at the negative stuff. Because it fuels me. It lights a fire that’s going to be burning for a long time.
I like the stage lights to be bright so I can’t see people because I will inevitably only see the ones who aren’t laughing.
That’s what I want to do with my life. Be a good person when all the lights are off. When everybody doesn’t need to see you, shine and know that you know you did the right thing at the end of the day.
When I was growing up in the ’80s and working in the theater, David Mamet exploded with a whole new reworking of what dialogue should sound like. It was punchy and raw and repetitive, bursting with dynamic. I remember that switching on a lot of lights for me.
I’ve been under the lights since my freshman year of high school.
