In the end, all that time I spent in the ‘Star Wars’ universe fostered galaxies of creativity and made me a better person here on Earth, because it taught me that everyone counts. That’s why I can sincerely and with a straight face say: ‘May the Force be with you.’
As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there’s no rigour to it.
By some crazy twist of fate I was able to remember the moments leading up to the bombings, and in the end, it helped people. I’m not a hero; I did what any normal person would do.
In the end, you need to be a little masochistic to be a goalkeeper. A masochist and egocentric as well.
My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myself about it, but in the end, if something has to go ‘boom,’ and it would probably only go ‘fwoosh,’ I am relatively unconcerned about that, which is a sin, but not, I think, a grave one.
I think every city and every drag queen has a different aesthetic or set up, but in the end, it’s mutual respect for one another.
In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
I want to add to my legacy because, in the end, that’s going to be the most valuable for my career.
The reason I wanted to do ‘Strictly’ in the end is that you come out of it having learned something.
When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out there was a little part of my brain that thought ‘I am going to do to prove them wrong’. In the end that wouldn’t be coming from my heart and doing what was right.
Now I know a lot about my body, like how important it is to eat well, as it makes you stronger in the end and helps prevent injuries. Or when you train, do you just start to shoot, or do you have a good warm-up first?
For better or for worse, I’ve watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they’re not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody’s hand. And that’s real to me.
We don’t all look alike – some people think they’re tough, some people think they’re fragile – but in the end, we share a lot.
I’m pragmatic. If this is going to make sense, get me a job, and in the end let me put my kids through school. I’ll play killers. But my kids always ask me, ‘Do you die in this one, too, Daddy?’
The game has progressed, but in the end, they are still people out on the pitch, people with different personalities and feelings.
There was an interview with me when I was nine years old. They showed it on the local news and I said: ‘I want to win the Melbourne Cup.’ My friends used to tease me and make fun of what I said. So, yeah, it was pretty funny I did win it in the end.
I’m not here to battle anybody. In the end it’s just an instrument. That shouldn’t be a concept.
You need to know how to enjoy the victories. In the end, this is a great sport, and it’s to be enjoyed.
In the end, everyone just deserves the right to be their authentic selves, just be who they are.
In the end, it’s a mental maturity to let your best come out.
You know those award shows. The cliche is that it’s an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don’t know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it’s deserving.
You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life – suffering, horror, love, loss, hate – all of it.
In the end, granting mercy comes down to just two people. For the recipient, the pardon is freedom. For the politician, the pardon can mean – not surprisingly – political gain.
When you run for president, and become president, they just rip you apart. Every facade of privacy that you have is gone. I think everybody believes that, to some extent, you can maintain privacy. And I think in the end, everybody gets proven wrong.
Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare’s plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.
Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. ‘Stiff’ was an oddball book – I mean, a funny book about cadavers? – and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that’s what has made it a success, I think.
I don’t believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will.
Now I love hoops. I’m a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the ‘1812 Overture.’ Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
In the end, yes, I’m the singer of Old Dominion, but we’re a band of great singers and great musicians, and we just respect each other so much.
Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It’s uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the cat. But in the end, things work out for the best and your cat is better it. And then your cat gets released in hardcover, and you have to read all of his reviews.
That’s the best way to work on a project: talk to the director. In the end, it’s the director’s idea of how they perceive the movie and how they perceive the characters.
I’ve got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.
In the end, what counts is what you do.
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
When you work hard, when you believe in something, in the end, you will achieve something.
In the end, I expect we’ll have AI that is better than we are at nearly every narrow task but which are still our tools, not our masters.
In the end, you have to write like you’re not afraid of the critics.
Whenever a chef cooks for his own ego rather than his guests, he/she set themselves up for ridicule and failure. In the end, it’s the service industry. Our goal is to make our guests happy through our cooking.
I didn’t have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren’t popular and you don’t have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.
Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it’s much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that’s just the map of the journey.
I didn’t realize the ceiling that I had, and I don’t think a lot of players understand what they’re capable of. Some of them dream of what they’re capable of, but you don’t really understand until you get in the moment and you give it everything you got and see in the end where you can end up.
Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven’t had any moral compass, who’ve just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they’re losers.
It’s very, very exciting that it worked out in the end that we are actually detecting things and actually adding to the knowledge, through gravitational waves, of what goes on in the universe.
In the end, so much of what I wanted to do was to have a body of work that exhaustively looked at black American notions of masculinity: how we look at black men – how they’re perceived in public and private spaces – and to really examine that, going from every possible angle.
In the end, what developers want is a healthy ecosystem to create content and launch it into.
Education is, in the end, about individual interactions and about learning.
In the end, I want to be an inspiration to somebody.
When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it’s a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.
The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
If you laughed earlier in the poem, and I bring you close to tears in the end, that’s the best.
I just found the piano so fascinating and wonderful, and I begged my parents to buy me one. In the end, they bought me a toy piano and eventually an upright piano, and I started lessons.
I’m interested in memory because it’s a filter through which we see our lives, and because it’s foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
