I might not be Shaq, but I can be Kobe, you know?
As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.
Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.
Teenage years, having gone through it all, I know it's a rough, rough time, and I would say to accept that message of letting go, letting it happen and accepting that things don't always happen for a reason, or you may not understand the reason, but it's all part of the journey, and try to enjoy the ride.
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.
I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company.
I think hitting's just repetition. The more you hit, the better you're gonna get.
The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
I definitely want to continue working in independent films - and big budget stuff as well - but there's a freedom you have when you're not getting paid. It's easier to say no and there's no pressure to please the powers that be. Also I don't have to hear 'flirt and smile more.'
The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.
Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.
The 'Podunk Times' is not going to have a good dance critic, I absolutely promise you that. There's just not enough dance there.
God forgive you, but I never can.
Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.
You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.
Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you.
You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before.
I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.
Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.
We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven't eaten for three hours, we think we're starving. You're not starving - human beings can go for 30 days without food.
Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.
You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.
I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.
Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.
In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.
The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.
You have some people that's weak, and you have some people that's strong. I consider myself a very strong person.
