I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
We can't worry about who we don't have. We have to go into these games with the guys we have.
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It's hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football. You can't keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren't always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
I want to be a storyteller - not only of the Latin experience but of people who want to be inspired.
There's no one who, at some point, hasn't had the feeling their life is on the rails and they can't do anything about it.
You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.
I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.
I have three daughters who grew up while I was working on the special editions and the prequels. They got to be big 'Star Wars' fans. And, you know, I would see them identifying with a lot of the male characters, and I just thought, 'Star Wars' could use more good strong female leads.'
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great.
I'm going to gather all the French people who want change.
My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.
There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.
As a little girl, I thought I'd like to get married on the beach. But I'm not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff.
I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.
Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.
There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.
It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are.
No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
I'm not the judge of who that is, but I am a believer that no debt in the universe goes unpaid. If you try to buy early, you'll pay late.
I mean, I love being with friends and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.
Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
Having done what I've done at 24 years old, I'm not the kind of person who likes to be out of work.
Americans think they're the leader of the world and yet can say that they're putting their economic interests ahead of the lives of - quite possibly - tens of millions of people who over the next 50 years will die because of floods or storms or tropical diseases or whatever. I guess that sort of thing makes me angry.
Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
I don't give a damn what people say about me. I like me the way I am, and who cares what other people say?
For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'
