Every accepted public quote

“From a little spark may burst a flame.”

“Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels b...”

“Conflicts are increasingly causing devastation in densely populated urban centres rather than open battlefields, creating a host of new problems through the cumulative impact from the destru...”

“After college, I did a bunch of different jobs - taught English in Mexico, worked in public radio, worked for a web design company - but there was something about documentaries that really a...”

“What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.”

“I was a drama teacher, so I had the opportunity to show off in front of a captive audience. I essentially did 13 years of stand-up. Whether my pupils would agree that I was remotely interest...”

“I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.”

“We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn't handle that business then th...”

“You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.”

“Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.”

“Sometimes you get pushed out not because you're not worth it, you're worth more.”

“Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.”

“I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.”

“Because I'm a dramatist, I'm allowed to take liberties, but I want my films to be based in truth, and it's very important to me that the community we're focusing on is happy with the film. F...”

“I actually worked with an organization called Drama Club that works with incarcerated teens and youth in a detention center and in Rikers Island, which a lot of people don't know that teens...”

“To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.”

“The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.”

“Even in 'Hollyoaks,' we were known as 'the black family' as opposed to just 'the new family.' But that's where we are in the world, I guess. It's getting better; everything's heading in the...”

“Sometimes the worst-tasting crap is the best for you.”

“Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.”

“In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.”

“There are already robotic journalists. Sure, they aren't very good, but they're getting better faster than human journalists are.”

“Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.”

“To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be...”

“I would not want to be on a cruise ship. Some ferry crossings I'm not too thrilled about.”

“I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.”

“I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil serv...”

“Enclosing your thought in meaning is like enclosing a free animal in a cage. You cannot expect it to be happy.”

“Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.”

“If people ignore the rules already, new regulations are not likely to deter them.”

“There are some ten thousand extant religious sects--each with its own cosmology, each with its own answer for the meaning of life and death. Most assert that the other 9,999 not only have it...”

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.”

“Being a figure skater myself and knowing what it took for my parents to get up at five in the morning to drive me to the rink before school and then drive me to practice after school - it's...”

“I haven't had a lot of experience with glamour. I've never had to mask myself, as many now not-so-young actresses have had to do. Female actors in that regard have a different lot in life th...”

“I quote others in order to better express my own self.”

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

“I was like a hermit; I didn't really have a lot of homies I would kick it with. I was in high school, I was failing all my classes, and I wanted to make music.”

“I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.”

“Expressing my feelings and then the opportunity to share it with others is just such a gift.”

“As a player, I could have the ball in my hands; I could kind of dictate what happens. I'm still learning, a young coach with young players. Sometimes I'm going to see things. They're not goi...”

“The individual is certainly a tiny thing in the eyes of the infinity, but just because one is tiny does not mean one is insignificant.”

“Wai Lin is the first Bond Girl who is on a par with Bond, someone who can match up with him mentally and physically. From the moment our characters see each other, there is a wariness and a...”

“Anticipating a boomerang child seems the odds-on thing to do. Think about furnishing - hello, sleeper sofa - with this in mind.”

“What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're probably not going to pay as much attention to a question like, 'Does this person bite their nail...”

“Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they're probably feeling the same kind of scared, horrible feelings that everyone does.”

“I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.”

“I think - I do think that we have to have a secure border. We need to make sure that people are, in fact, documented. But that doesn't mean that we threaten people's lives.”

“I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host.”