It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.
When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.
You don't have to live on a farm to have chickens; in some places, you just need a little bit of green space and a tidy chicken coop. To me, they're nearly ideal pets. They feed us more often than we feed them! We have 2 chickens, Goldie and Paprika, and they each produce 1 egg a day, sometimes more.
Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.
President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.
If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.
We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than to pass quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture.
I want to look my fellow Americans directly in the eye and declare to them, 'I am not the anthrax killer.' I know nothing about the anthrax attacks. I had absolutely nothing to do with this terrible crime.
Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.
I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.
No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or if you're my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it's just the media talking and you can't really get to know someone that way, obviously.
There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.
Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.
At first glance, the story of the Lusitania doesn't seem like the sort of thing I would take on. I usually like ideas that are a little bit more complex, things that people don't know about - or maybe they once did, but now you bring it to life for them for the first time.
Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.
Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.
I've done every tour with them since then and will always be with them as long as they're together.
There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.
I am a great motivator. I have struggles in my life, and the only way I can push through them is to motivate others. It really is quite selfish.
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
Children go with whatever makes them feel good - like if that's the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I've grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality - onstage those things became my colors.
The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.
We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.
I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director.
Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.
I think, in music, you're always hoping that you'll have a like-minded audience and that the music you like making will appeal to them, too.
The biggest thing that I hope people take away when they listen to my music is that they feel that there is an outlet being presented that allows them to be more authentic and for them to be more honest in their own lives.
There are things that need to be said... and I think it's my obligation to say them.
Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.
The night before I compete, I like to have steak. Meat is especially important for female athletes because it provides them with the nutrients they need to perform at their best.
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
