The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.
Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.
I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.
I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career. Whatever I am today is due to the values my mother instilled in me.
I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.
My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.
Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.
I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I do worry about the blurring of an author's public persona with the work itself. A good 'performer' can make a mediocre book sound strong, and a shy author can leave listeners missing the excellence of his or her writing.
I am pretty self-indulgent.
I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.
I am an incredibly strong person and an incredibly fast person.
I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.
I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next.
When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.
I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.
I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.
I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.
I am a fan of history.
It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.
Some people believe I am the third Buddha, but this is people's choice. From me, never. I have never pretended I am special.
As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
I am quite a dreamer, and usually when someone tells a story, I tend to get distracted easily.
Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.
Shondaland is my company. I run that mother. I am in charge. I am the leader. It's fantastic. It's also really hard. As it should be.
In New York, I am barely recognised, or people don't really care. When I go to Portugal, I go outside to a public place and am recognised constantly.
Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.
You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.
I like to be creative with my red carpet outfits, but equally, sometimes I am just in the mood to go all out with a ball gown and heels - but only If you get me on the right day!
I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother's security in Pakistan.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
I'm from a wrestling family, a wrestling dynasty. And as biased as that may be, I firmly believe I am from the greatest wrestling family of all time.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am not much of a drinker.
There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
