Every accepted public quote

“Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we'r...”

“When you chastised a youngster back in the early ages, we called it a whipping.”

“The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.”

“Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.”

“I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.”

“I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.”

“I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.”

“Famine emerges from a lack of interlocal trade; when one locality's food crop fails, since there is virtually no trade with other localities, the bulk of the people starve. It is precisely t...”

“Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.”

“All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.”

“All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.”

“Duran is a mythological figure in Latin America. He grew up in a time of turbulence because Panama was basically occupied by the United States. So he felt obliged to fight Americans in the r...”

“The requests for blurbs seem to come in waves. I'm not sure what precipitates them. I think it must be excruciating for editors to draft those elaborate letters asking for a blurb, and I kno...”

“Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.”

“I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.”

“The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation...”

“The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like...”

“The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee...”

“Even a person like this makes mistakes, can't always hold on to everything they'd like to,can't always force the world to spin in the direction of their choosing. You'll hug him longer than...”

“Something I can't stress enough is the massive importance of work experience. It's the only way to find out what work is really like when you're figuring out what path to take and to get an...”

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”

“For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledg...”

“I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.'”

“I'm not particularly fond of playing villains. I do want to be a working actor, and I've had to look at what was offered to me, what roles I could get, and what I could do with them. Even th...”

“Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even when we benefit from them.”

“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.”

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

“Jewish students, by culture and by ability and by the very nature of their liveliness, make a university a much more habitable place in terms of intellectual life.”

“The allegations against Harvey Weinstein are clearly deplorable. No matter how many great films he's bullied into production, or his guilt-induced contributions to left-minded ideals, this k...”

“And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.”

“Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.”

“I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.”

“You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.”

“When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.”

“I never mind contorting myself for a good cause.”

“People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.”

“Religion is the path of divisions, boundaries and narrowness. Spirituality is the path of love, light, beauty and oneness.”

“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.”

“I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem.”

“I'm, like, a binge gamer.”

“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.”

“Being angry, resentful, or saddened by rejection can suck the sweetness out of acceptance.”

“I don't do what I do to get nominated. I do what I do because I love it.”

“The planet's environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.”

“No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.”

“I've played everything but a harp.”

“Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.”

“I have no regrets. I've got my health.”