I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.
When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.
I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.
It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.
I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.
What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
We've all been affected by divorce in one way or another, whether we've experienced it personally, or witnessed family or friends go through it.
I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.
It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.
Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
It's not like I've been vaulting my whole life. I haven't. So my body hasn't taken that physical beating. I'm still on the upscale.
An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.
The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years.
There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.
My role is really just to try to make sure that the voice of all shareholders and employees is heard - that no one is bullying their agenda, their choice of a CEO, or their selection of who should be the board members. Benchmark, I believe, has been pushing their agenda at the expense of those stakeholders.
I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.
I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.
I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.
When little old ladies recognize a guy who was Mr. Olympia, that's saying something. That means I've been able to cross lines as far as marketability is concerned.
Tumbling has always been my favorite.
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
Ukraine has been a strong partner to the United States on international initiatives and a committed ally in fighting the War on Terrorism.
What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just lose their edge because they haven't seen anybody or talked to anybody or been with anybody who isn't a kind of replica of themselves for a long period of time.
I've never, ever in my life touched a photographer. Some of the cruellest things I've ever said have been to photographers who are chasing me down the street, some of the sharpest, most efficient emotional barbs. And they know that in that moment, in that one-to-one wit competition, they just got smashed.
We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
In 2007, I received a National Geographic Expeditions Council grant to go around the top of the world and talk to Arctic people about how they've been impacted by climate change.
I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that.
There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.
I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right editor recognize their merit or have not been adequately published.
