The World Motivation
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
“A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”
— Charles Peguy · Guts
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Freedom is a system based on courage.
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.
I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you have to do that on film to make a point, it's hard. It's rough. I don't think it's as easy as people think.
I've never lacked guts, for good or bad.
Since my childhood, I was that girl who would walk into a movie hall starry-eyed having this hunch that I will be there and can do this though I did not have the guts to share my feeling with my parents.
On 'There Will Be Blood,' I was cast at the last minute. I had 3 and a half to 4 days to get ready for the first day. I just went for it, threw myself in there and gave it everything I had. That was just guts and instinct, not a lot of preparation.