There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.
I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.
France has been struck on the day of her national holiday - the 14th of July, Bastille Day - the symbol of liberty, because human rights are denied by fanatics, and France is clearly their target.
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.
If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding.
Transgender folks have been part of the push for LGBT equality from the beginning, and we've spoken with loud and intelligent voices and have found political and personal success and advancement all over the world.
I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
When you move around a lot, there are little bits of you from everywhere. I mean, my father's French, and I speak French, and there's a kind of struggle in me that says, 'I'd like to be French.' But I've never been fully part of that culture, that role.
Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.
I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.
There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.
My critics are pretty tough. I've never been one of the music industry's pets.
During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different.
I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character.
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to it when two people love each other.
It has always been clear that any use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic humanitarian consequences.
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.
I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.
I've been bouncing around from comedy to drama and TV and film.
As I see it, my job has always been to champion the work of the authors I publish.
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.
To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.
