Every accepted public quote

“By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.”

“Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. A...”

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.”

“O Lord, let me not live to be useless!”

“Judi Dench is incredible. She takes acting to another level. She is a thorough professional. She is always smiling and cheerful. She painstakingly rehearses with co-stars and allows you to b...”

“Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volun...”

“The habit of comparing leads to the habit of criticism, which soon leads to self-condemnation, and fills your life with pain and misery.”

“I love Maira Kalman. She's an amazing illustrator and writer. I've loved her since I was in college, but when I moved to New York and experienced the same city she was drawing and writing ab...”

“I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?”

“I think origin stories are a great way to get people reinvested in a story. I mean, we originally accepted 'Star Trek' without knowing anything about Kirk or Spock. All we needed to know was...”

“I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.”

“I don't think I will ever understand Bollywood. And I'm happy about that because it is a big, crazy, world. It's too complicated and chaotic to understand.”

“I think it's important for people to believe their elections are on the up and up and they aren't being tampered with by anyone, and in this particular instance there's a large body of evide...”

“As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.”

“I'll take any excuse to have a get-together. For me, it's all about the everyday occasions, whether it's popping champagne to toast good weather, inviting the girls for brunch to rehash a ni...”

“Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.”

“Photography is a pursuit that allows you to be very hands-on with what you show people of either yourself or the art you want to make, and acting is kind of the exact opposite. You do have a...”

“I heard oysters are an aphrodisiac, which I can't stand, but I think anything you eat with your hands is cute. I don't know.”

“The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, th...”

“Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance i...”

“I can walk all day in malls, shopping centres, high streets - I love it.”

“The best thing for me is the amount of DMs and people hitting me up every day saying, 'Your music is providing me with answers.' That blows my mind, because that's what Alex Turner and Emine...”

“I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred and eighty-two dishes, bowls, cups,...”

“Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote...”

“Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out ric...”

“A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries o...”

“I'm reclusive when it comes to me giving art away because I get real sensitive about that and critiques.”

“The world's biggest challenge comes from the threats of climate change and terrorism. In India's case, terrorism is not bred in some faraway land but from across our border.”

“And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey.”

“Do nothing and there shall be nothing.”

“My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.”

“I've seen many imitations on 'Gag Concert' and other programs, too, and I've been watching happily.”

“I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking about what role I play. I don't have to be a movie director or this or that. I just want to be part o...”

“How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up t...”

“We've always believed in fair trade.”

“It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet.”

“Well, unless you're Wayne Gretzky or Michael Jordan, you need the full support of your team.”

“One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me before the life was ended, the doctor drew the poison from my stomach with a syringe, and whe...”

“I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of...”

“I think that the typical Emilia Wickstead women is very effortless, very sophisticated: she's got alluring style, and she's always taking on fashion. I always describe her as 'imaginative wi...”

“Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.”

“I tend to wear flats and jeans and no makeup and walk around, go to the grocery store, and do whatever I have to do.”

“The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per cent of the process. Work is 80 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent is 'luck' or...”

“I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.”

“Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.”

“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible...”

“My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.”

“Traverse City sits halfway between the North Pole and the Equator, and our summer days are long. The light seems to take forever to vanish from the sky, and when it does, it goes out like so...”