I actually love actresses who look like they feel really natural. I like Patricia Clarkson, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand. Those are actresses where the second they show up on screen you’re like, oh my gosh, this movie just got so much better.
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
I would have liked to be – indeed, I should have been – a second Rembrandt.
I can score with the first team or the second team. It really doesn’t matter with me because I can create my own shot.
A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
On the sequel, you’ve lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.
Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
There’s no such thing as second class citizenship. That’s like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
I want to work with Song Joong Ki sunbae again who I worked with in ‘Vincenzo.’ I learned so many things from Song Joong-ki sunbae but it’s regrettable that we mainly filmed together only in the second half.
We all share the same goal to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them, while fully protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding, responsible Americans.
Early AI was mainly based on logic. You’re trying to make computers that reason like people. The second route is from biology: You’re trying to make computers that can perceive and act and adapt like animals.
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Don’t waste one second on anything. Watch the sun come up, and watch it go down.
There are no second acts in American lives.
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
Why is Poroshenko going for a second term? So that he doesn’t get a first.
My work means that a dressy outfit and full face of make-up is everyday wear, even in lockdown. But it’s such a relief to take it all off after the show and know there’s no prospect of having to find a second wind at the other end of the day, putting the armour back on again.
Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you’re going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.
Hindsight is wonderful. It’s always very easy to second guess after the fact.
People who come to ‘The Country House’ are like, ‘You’re on ‘The Good Wife’ now.’ But I’ve been on since the second season! I feel that the interest in the children in that series is almost tangential.
I wanted to do journalism, as I was an idealist. Then, in my second year of journalism, I realized that in real life, things don’t work the way you expect them to. I realized that I could express my ideas better through films.
There are few things as powerful as the joy of someone who got a second chance and found their purpose.
The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.
Most bayonets throughout history have probably not been used because soldiers just can’t do it, something holds them back… the same goes for shooting the enemy. We’ve got this fascinating evidence from the Second World War, and also from other wars, that most soldiers couldn’t do it.
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
I was at Boulogne, in the second team – the sixth, then the fifth division. I wasn’t professional, so I kept studying because I wasn’t sure if I would be able to make a living as a footballer.
Soviet mathematics was particularly good in the second half of the 20th century, basically because of the arms race, because the Soviet Union realized… World War II created the conditions for the Soviet Union to become a superpower.
A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
When I went to college, I did clothing and textiles. It really wasn’t until I moved to New York, my second night in, I did stand-up. I took a wild left turn, and instead of going back and finishing school at FIT, I started doing stand-up and acting.
Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.
Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don’t bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year.
It’s just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material – that they’re worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn’t happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second.
Anybody can win – unless there happens to be a second entry.
The best part of a goalkeeper is that when you are the second choice you get to gain a lot of experience by sitting outside and watching.
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
Sitting one seat away from Nicki Minaj at Marc Jacobs left me speechless. I couldn’t say anything – and that’s the first time that’s ever happened to me! We locked eyes for a second, but I was too scared to talk to her. She looked incredible, of course.
I was a freelancer at CNN during the second semester of my senior year at George Washington University.
If I could come back as anything – I’d be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.
Jill Eisenstadt’s comic second novel, ‘Kiss Out,’ is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.
Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.
Time move forward, and time move quick. So you just have to enjoy every second, every moment.
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can’t get a deal for a second one.
If you undermine people’s confidence, they turn up at the contest trying to get second place.
After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.
Each year, in my quaint efforts to send out paper holiday cards with personal messages, I probably discard one for every three I actually manage to put in the mail. The reason is that my handwriting is now less legible than it was when I was in the second grade.
If we’re going to change the laws, let’s change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.
Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.
Winning the second grand slam, it was a bit different. I don’t have anything to prove anymore. I am at the top: number one.
When everything happens to you when you’re so young, you’re very lucky, but by the same token, you’re never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you – your first love, your first success – the second one is never the same.
Everyone deserves a second chance. That’s just the way I am.
I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn’t take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.
