When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.
You call yourself what you want to call yourself.
I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.
The signal of the importance of something is whether you're actually measuring it and you're holding people accountable to improving those numbers.
I prefer home school because you learn more by yourself than when you're around other people because you get distracted.
I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.
It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.
Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.
We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away.
How can you prevent an attack by returning foreign fighters if you are not cognizant of their names and links to ISIS?
Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.
Much of my life has been a devotion to a simple expression: you can Lead Without a Title.
Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.
The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?
I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.
I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.
Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.
I love being a mom. I love singing. Why can't you have both? A lot of people would say you can't, but I think you can balance it; if you work hard, and you plan everything out properly, it works.
Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.
I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.
It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives me the confidence to know that our training facilities are really good, that when you get up there, you feel like you've been there.
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
Always be yourself... unless you suck.
If you get a dog that goes out there and bumps the sheep, comes on too hard, the sheep don't trust him.
You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
I've learned over the years that you're going to be most successful at the things you're most excited to do. Every artist has a special set of tools. When you really use those tools, and you make yourself feel really good about the product you create, I think you'll find an audience for it. I've been very fortunate in that respect.
For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
