There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them. – Patti Davis
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake. – Nancy Pearcey
The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process. – Peter Bart
There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way. – Mike Love
I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way. – Marcia Wallace
I’m in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it’s taking me weeks. I have everything from obscure ‘Antonioni’ to ‘Terminator Salvation.’ – Michael Weatherly
When the FDA announced its intentions to join other countries and ban quinolone use on U.S. chicken farms, the drug manufacturer Bayer initiated legal action that successfully delayed the process for five years. – Michael Greger
I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen. – Jenna Dewan
I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing’s a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write. – Neil Gaiman
Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the growth in personnel and benefits costs. A critical first step in that process should be to conduct a full Pentagon audit to determine how DOD spends taxpayer dollars. – Pete Hegseth
Producing just one video is a long process. First, you decide your song, then you have to figure out the arrangement of the song; will you play it on the guitar? Will you make it a music video? Once you figure that out, you record it and then edit it, which can take two to five days to finish. – Megan Nicole
We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we can tell the wild fish from the hatchery fish. – Norm Dicks
I can’t get any satiation. My brain is wired in such a way that I – in my research, I probably have a lack of D1 and D2 receptor sites. These are dopamine receptor sites, and satiation is a process that involves a cascade. – Nick Nolte
With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can’t get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It’s an incredibly tedious process. – Paul Auster
The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can. – Moses Mendelssohn
Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence. – Martin Jacques
I think when you get to the point where you don’t need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that’s a long process. – John Cusack
You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they’re your weird creations in some kind of way. I don’t even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It’s just absurd. – Joel Coen
I don’t make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process. – Jodie Foster
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product. – John Irving
I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process. – Martin Seligman
The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted. – Miuccia Prada
With actors, it’s really about feeding them all the time. I don’t get involved in their process. I try to do the opposite, feeding them, feeding them, feeding them, and you can see very easily how they react to it. – Juan Antonio Bayona
There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction. – Lakhdar Brahimi
I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process – who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they’re ready to share. – Joe Mantello
Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences. – L. Lionel Kendrick
I’ve been on jobs where there’s that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour. – Joe Pantoliano