Every accepted public quote

“Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life - like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people...”

“Like I always say, it's not how many great plays you make; it's how few bad ones you make. I know fans, and even some losing coaches, are enamored with long pass completions or the great run...”

“Love begets love. This torment is my joy.”

“People have told me I look like Gordon Lightfoot.”

“History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions.”

“Mysteries always have the potential for interesting connections between the elements. I'm also most interested in the relationship between the characters. As in 'Masterpiece,' I'm trying to...”

“The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.”

“Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.”

“This is the kind of fashion I grew up on - a good pair of trainers, great denim - and I will always love high-end streetwear.”

“I wanted to do 'Manzanar' because I'd never done anything like it before. The spoken word there is between a drama and an essay, and I'd never worked in concert with an orchestra.”

“Every field of astrophysics - whether it's our local neighborhood of planets, nearby stars and their attendant planets, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, out to the edge of the universe - ever...”

“At first glance, The Color Run does look a lot like Holi. Its website is populated by photos of people throwing coloured powder at each other and in the air, outdoors, at the start of spring...”

“Don't get discouraged with your skin when it doesn't do what you want it to do... Give it some time. That's the only way to get to know yourself.”

“There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.”

“Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.”

“When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.”

“During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And even though I was born in Cyprus, my parents were American, a...”

“Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.”

“I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.”

“The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.”

“Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.”

“We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and...”

“I used to dig in the garden, and there isn't anything fantastic or ultradimensional about crab grass... unless you are a SF writer, in which case, pretty soon you're viewing crabgrass with s...”

“I feel like I've always been a great mediator.”

“I can't really sit around and talk with people who believe that the Bible is the way it happened, because that's man-made. I'm a writer, too; that's how I look at the Bible. Like, 'I could'v...”

“Diana Ross... she's the bomb.”

“The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.”

“I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.”

“Thus far, the only people who can grant you immortality are not scientists, but writers. By writing you into their books, they may not only immortalize you, but also grant you superpowers.”

“Also unfortunately, Congress is far too busy asking if baseball players are really as strong as they seem and trying to choke bankers with wads of cash to grant more funds to such trifling m...”

“Together, the western elites and Gaddafi helped to lead us into a simplistic two-dimensional vision of the world - full of exaggerations and falsehoods. A fake bubble of certainty that has i...”

“Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.”

“I don't do a lot of collaborations that I don't believe in. Actually, I don't do any collaborations that I don't believe in.”

“I have no problem whatsoever with a kind of political overview or an ideological overview for any of these outlets as long as it's transparent. We know where Breitbart stands, we know where...”

“History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the...”

“I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.”

“We kill, kill, kill. Flesh, spirit, whatever gets in our way. It's like our whole purpose is to extinguish life. And for those who live, there's memory, like a curse. We're such a mixture of...”

“I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.”

“I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.”

“I must say I have a personal love affair with India, with its civilisation, its culture.”

“What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.”

“Being nice can make you feel very happy.”

“My definition of beauty is happiness. I believe that when you are happy, it shines through and makes you a more attractive and beautiful person!”

“Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.”

“Kashmir issue was created out of fear, mistrust and animosity and it should be solved through courage, trust, and friendliness. It should be solved from the ground of development of brotherh...”

“Our great ancestors were also not sure about their future, hence do not worry, live your life.”

“Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres...”

“I think we are ready to know that there are going to be people who are ready to save the world, who come out when you're in trouble and make sure that you're okay.”