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The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.
My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.
You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen
Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.
She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.
Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.
The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation.
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.
However well you know the French language you've learnt it the wrong way, not as a native speaker would. That's my problem as well.
One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.
What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.
I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.
When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.
My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.
My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every time I read it.
Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.
Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people.
I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.
She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.
Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.
It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.
The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.
People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.
One of my favorite songs is 'Ghost' by Indigo Girls. Emily Saliers wrote that, and she is one of the most talented songwriters ever.
Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls
Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s.
When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.
I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again.
As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.
We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.
My mother always thought if her mother hadn't left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened.
Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.
You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.
It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.
When you have great working relationships with people, both collaborative and creatively, everybody will always want to work together.
Most people think of Ariel when they think of mermaids. What they don't know is that she's surrounded by really hot-tempered mermaids.
To me, there's still nothing more thrilling than, every week, people getting to see another chapter in this story that you're telling.