Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it is you want to be and do whatever it is you want to do, and nobody's really going to ask you a lot of questions about it.
This is an old family secret, and I just found this out recently, and it almost broke my heart. My mother said to me, 'I had never told you this, but God, you were an ugly baby'.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.
In New York, especially, so much of your life is spent on the streets. You don't always want to be driving around in an SUV with a security guard. You want to be able to walk to a restaurant; you want to go and do things.
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.
In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.
The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.
You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.
I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.
One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.
You could say that I am the Estee Lauder woman. I'm a working mother; time is valuable to me. I want a good product; I want quality.
When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.
In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.
The first tour an artist does is a strange one... because you can never tell how the audience is going to react.
It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.
You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.
If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?
You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, except under a microscope. They're so small, we don't see them, but they are everywhere.
I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.
Think about spam filters; if email didn't come from someone that someone you know knows, that's an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just don't. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.
One of the problems with being famous is people mob you wherever you go. Many of them ask very irritating questions. If I were not the shortest woman in the world, I would not have become famous.
Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
Simple idea with powerful consequences: everyone who intersects your life knows something you don't.
I don't have a lot of stomach for people who don't show up to a set knowing their lines because you're keeping 150 people waiting.
There's no map for you to follow and take your journey. You are Lewis and Clark. You are the mapmaker.
