First Quotes

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‘escape of energy,’ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.

I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.

As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months.

First sentences are doors to worlds.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.

We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool.

. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.