Maybe you think, 'I'm not college material.' Maybe you worry that you don't have the money. Then you take the SAT. You see that colleges are getting in touch with you. You begin to think maybe you are ready for college.
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.
You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
If you're making a bunch of little decisions - like, do I read this email now or later? Do I file it? Do I forward it? Do I have to get more information? Do I put it in the spam folder? - that's a handful of decisions right there, and you haven't done anything meaningful. It puts us into a brain state of decision fatigue.
Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?
I moved to Chicago and I did theater, and then I started writing and I stop acting and I did sketch. You know, I did all of the things that, if you were serious about doing television, don't do.
If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.
The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.
How do you measure your value?
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
More than the time, it's about how you feel - you want to be strong throughout the race.
My parents are both musicians and made sure we all played music. My brothers and sisters all play instruments, so we'll get together whenever we can and play. We play a lot of classical music - you know, the good stuff.
What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?
And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?'
Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be interesting when you're doing it?
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.
Don't look now but there's one man too many in this room and I think it's you!
Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
I just love carbs. And when I'm on vacation I definitely allow myself carbs, so it's always funny when people are like, 'Oh my gosh, you look great in your bikini.' I'm like, 'If you only knew what I had for breakfast!'
I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I was 23. I have great, well-adjusted kids. Sometimes my husband and I look at each other and do a little jig in the kitchen. This is the best life.
Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.
If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.
I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join.
Ninety percent of a good performance of an actor is based on the material. If you've got the material there, you can ride it.
I live my life and I do what I do, and sometimes you forget that people are watching you.
