Every accepted public quote

“We lived in so many flats, and the more people you could get, the cheaper the flat was. Someone was always sleeping in the living room, and you're always slightly hiding them when the landlo...”

“I like to watch surfers and skaters that are really fast and really powerful and everything flows.”

“But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquirie...”

“Accio Brain!”

“I loved being in the film called 'Carnal Knowledge' - the one with Jack Nicholson, which was very dark but a really brilliant movie. I loved being in 'The Ritz.' 'The Ritz' I think is just h...”

“I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big hous...”

“Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.”

“It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes.”

“The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.”

“Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such...”

“Wouldn't it be great if cars came equipped with screens like that thing they have in Times Square that spells out the news? You could punch out your own instant messages: 'Will the small red...”

“I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness,' but a lot of fighters go overboard.”

“When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.”

“I have a natural swagger.”

“Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it's really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stre...”

“I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.”

“The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.”

“Change is the only evidence of life.”

“I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.”

“Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing”

“Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.”

“When you're little, first of all, everybody smiles at you because you're cute, so you think the world is great. And everything is so vivid. You know, you're not clouded out by anxiety, and y...”

“Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, which they can therefore recoun...”

“How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in un...”

“The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old ra...”

“It's a very odd thing As odd as can be That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T.”

“If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.”

“War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to require the aid of logic to convince our understanding nor the ardou...”

“Since most corporate competitors have the same problems with sustainability and social reputation, it's worth trying to solve them together.”

“In theatre, once you've got the character and you've got things together, you can relax into it. Film has a different feel - you don't get that through line of not stopping. Theatre is like...”

“If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.”

“I knew there were all kinds of interesting things going on at Google, but now that I've seen them, my mind has been blown - in a great way. They have all these amazing projects and people th...”

“As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.”

“Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.”

“My relationship with my father still troubles me because it never got resolved, and there was no closure. There was a lot of bitterness, but having written about it, I found that I was able...”

“I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.”

“The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.”

“When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, 'and I don't want to read that in your magazine!' In which...”

“When I went public with my breast cancer diagnosis six weeks ago, the overwhelming outpouring of love, prayers and support really helped me heal faster. I want to make sure to thank everyone...”

“I really like the Glycolic Cleansing Pads because they're super easy. Sometimes it's annoying to scrub your face with your hands, but these are just little pads, so I like that. I also reall...”

“In the American office lexicon, 'aging' - and its close cousin 'old' - are inconsistent modifiers. While older women are often labeled as 'tired' and 'out of touch,' aging men get to be 'dis...”

“Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and...”

“All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.”

“I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.”

“I loved fashion, I really did, but I was not obsessed with it. I wanted to be behind the scenes, like in that movie 'Broadcast News.' Holly Hunter - her I wanted to be.”

“In some industries, we refer to risk taking as 'research and development.' At financial institutions, we often take risk by investing in securities.”

“Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.”

“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.”