Every accepted public quote

“I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said or having a flashback or something that explains. I think, in 'Prisoners,' we need to unde...”

“I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.”

“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.”

“It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience...”

“Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and pot...”

“As anyone who's done any acting will tell you, if you haven't got a malicious evil streak, it's such a joy to let one out.”

“Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.”

“SADLY Friends are sometimes like shadows. When you walk in the light, they follow you. And when you fall into darkness, they leave you.”

“We need to go beyond saying, 'I know what these games do because I see my son playing them,' and try to understand the complexities - that different video games have different effects.”

“As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political...”

“A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.”

“I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.”

“I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an establi...”

“The people-pleasing and performing is 100% ingrained in me, partly because I was a little brown girl growing up in a very white, homogeneous community in San Diego - where, in second grade,...”

“Light and shadow perfectly sum up this crazy thing we call life.”

“All this stuff doesn't happen to you for your own sake. It doesn't happen to you so you can fill your shelves with trophies or line your pockets with cash; it happens so you can have a posit...”

“Boulder is a very smart community.”

“She is absolutely inspiring. Malala is a vindication of our struggle.”

“Humility rests upon the shores of your sorrows and blossoms upon the mountain of your faith”

“To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.”

“Ever since I was a younger skater, I've been working my way to these big jumps.”

“The heart is never the same after the first love. The broken pieces never fit back together... Pero maaaring mas matibay ang puso na iyon. Broken man minsan, tumitibok pa rin. Kaya pa ring m...”

“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”

“Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory...”

“We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.”

“I figure we go through things that make us stronger, but we also go through things that just simply piss us off.”

“We have a mantra. 'Facts get shares; opinions get shrugs'.”

“Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.”

“I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.”

“My first draft of Marvel Knights 'Black Panther' was not funny at all. They smartly rejected the entire script and counseled me to inject liberal doses of humor into very serious subject mat...”

“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”

“My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger!”

“As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.”

“Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.”

“You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.”

“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.”

“There were many stars in Motown's firmament - among them, Stevie, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves and Diana Ross - but I happen to have loved the Four Tops most of all.”

“Things I am allergic to: people who believe in star signs and think nothing of starting a conversation with: 'Hi, my name's Lucy. I'm a Sagittarius;' rodents (apart from miniature hamsters,...”

“I am an actor and mouldable enough to do films like '2 States,' 'Gunday,' and 'Finding Fanny.'”

“I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.”

“I wanted to work in corporate restaurants.”

“Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.”

“"Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once." It is the commonest prayer in all languages.”

“A back door is a nonstarter. It means we are all not safe... I don't support a back door for any government, ever.”

“France has more need of me than I have need of France.”

“In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man.”

“In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.”

“Females make better cooks than men. Females have a better palate. They have a better sense of smell. They never take shortcuts; this is why they're very good in kitchens. The weakness in wha...”