Every accepted public quote

“I want everybody to succeed. It's just part of who I am. I probably do that with my kids tenfold. I'm as insecure as the next person, but it doesn't ever take me over.”

“I use Google+, and I find the quality of the comments are very sophisticated because there is more trust inside of Google+ than there is inside of Twitter and Facebook, for example.”

“Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.”

“Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.”

“Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.”

“I don't find these technical things like flowers and chocolates romantic at all. I think Valentine's Day makes no sense.”

“Sometimes you just have to have faith in your own ideas. If you don't someone else will. Why should it be them and not you? The only difference is who is willing to take a chance.”

“I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.”

“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and t...”

“It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry.”

“When a novel is based on an actual crime, it should do much more than loosely fictionalize it. The novel must stand alone as a work of art that justifies using the story for its own purposes...”

“There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.”

“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.”

“I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fortune to him, but when he ignores...”

“Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.”

“It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, ho...”

“Everyone - regardless of their background, wealth, race, faith, gender, sexual orientation or age - should be able to fulfil their potential and succeed.”

“Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we weren't able to witness w...”

“I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being this cliche - a girl from L.A. who decides to be an actress.”

“We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.”

“Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.”

“Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward.”

“Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your le...”

“We've got to stand up at some point and say, 'We are not gonna pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress.' That war's been fought. That was over a century ago. That debt was paid...”

“It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.”

“In 2002 and 2003, the Bush administration decided against bombing Zarqawi's camp in northern Iraq because it might derail plans to depose Saddam Hussein. By focusing on Zarqawi in his speech...”

“The very fact that 'the mystical' is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions of and attitudes toward power. The separ...”

“If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.”

“While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.”

“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”

“We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being recorded. Everything is on audio. The truth is we all have access to everybody else's information.”

“You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge...”

“So far as we know, the tiny fragments of the universe embodied in man are the only centers of thought and responsibility in the visible world. If that be so, the appearance of the human mind...”

“We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.”

“We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best...”

“...whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.”

“Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.”

“It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.”

“In eighth grade, I pretty much didn't want to pass. I was 6'8'.' I was always bigger and stronger. I was getting triple-teamed, and the results weren't good. I wasn't helping my team. I was...”

“It is an honor to join the ranks of sports icons such as Muhammad Ali and Tiger Woods by being immortalized in wax at Madame Tussauds Washington, D.C.”

“Money is the wise man's religion.”

“The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.”

“Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.”

“I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're n...”

“Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than an individual.”

“I was like, 'I'm never gonna do country, I'm never gonna give in, you'll never see me wear a cowboy hat.'”

“So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.”

“My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brough...”