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Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
One of the advantages of series TV is that you can change your mind and plan things as you go.
We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.
I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can carry a tune.
We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.
I get emotionally attached to someone if I talk to them on the street corner for five minutes.
Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."
You are evil. But even the power of evil cannot stand against the power of faith and goodness.
Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.
Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.
It wasn't a conscious decision to actually make a movie about Guantanamo Bay. It was a device.
There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.
I've never watched reality shows, except for the Great British Bake Off, which is magnificent.
It was a symbolic moment when 'Moonlight' literally took the Oscar out of 'La La Land's' hand.
I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.
Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.
We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.
For it is in letting go of the past that you reclaim your power. Step through the gateway now.
(on being born on Christmas Day, 1924) I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.
Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.
A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.
My parents created a world in which the only barrier to your success is your own imagination.
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.
I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings.
I do lots of projects in film and TV. You have some that are lucky, and some that are unlucky.
I got to know Australians well working on the 'Mad Max' franchise with director George Miller.
I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.
When I start something, I know people I am working with, it's a project they're interested in.
Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.
A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.
Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.
I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.
We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.
If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.
In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.
While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.
Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.
Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.
Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.
I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.
If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.
I think that if you're a good enough actor you hope that eventually the material will find you.
Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.
If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.
That's the great thing about 'The West Wing:' you really felt like you were in the thick of it.
When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'
I don't like beating people on the head with the message. I don't like standing on the soapbox.