Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.
You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.
Why shouldn't I be confident? I'm well educated, I can deliver a line, and I have more than three expressions. That's good right?
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.
One thing I've always been concerned about is the objectification of women in ads, and that's one thing where I was like, 'Well, if I become a part of advertising, I could change that.'
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.
I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well.
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.
The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.
There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
I think there are a lot of successful people in this country who connect amazingly well with the American people and have - and one of the reasons they are successful is because they connect well.
Comedy is harder, because if there's no laughs, it's pretty bad. But drama, if there's no reaction, you can say, 'Well, it's not their cup of tea. Maybe it's too heavy for the audience.'
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change.
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.
Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.
When you arrive in L.A. as an Englishman, you might as well be on the moon. People just don't understand you if you speak too fast, and most people there think you're Australian. Ordering was incredibly complicated. I was speechless.
There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do.
Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.
It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.
Well, I'm still here. Didn't have to go to rehab, and I'm not broke.
Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.
There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.
Women often are so focused on getting their jobs done well that they forget that building relationships is a key part of being a leader - and increasingly so, the higher you go.
