Every accepted public quote

“I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.”

“I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came out in record numbers during the last presidential...”

“The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the au...”

“I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated.”

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”

“I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.”

“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”

“There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.”

“I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama.”

“Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.”

“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.”

“I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.”

“Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.”

“No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.”

“It's always fun to talk about jazz.”

“They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.”

“Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.”

“I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.”

“I love all of Kate Winslet's characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they've done, that would be awesome.”

“I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up...”

“What will remain is neither you nor me but what we shared among each others.”

“Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take...”

“I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn't go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had tried to take it. I wouldn't go back.”

“Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.”

“No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than...”

“Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!”

“When a party loses a national election to someone such as President Trump, it's time to rethink everything.”

“Don't eat shrimp - it's one of the most unsustainable fish. For every pound that's caught, 10 or 20 pounds of other stuff is killed and dumped back overboard. It's the number one killer of j...”

“The Quakers don't believe in music or art; they think it's a vanity.”

“You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.”

“Charlotte, darling, Henry said to his wife, who was staring at im in gape-mouthed horror. Jassamine, beside her, was wided eyed. Sorry im late. You know, i think i might nearly have the sens...”

“High Pasture Come up--come up: in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the breeze Has stretched the thwart boughs bare to meet t...”

“Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a to...”

“Getting degree only makes someone literate to the society or the nation. But sometime their uncultured acts make them illiterate. Cause they have uneducated mind. Their minds have never got...”

“I understand Pat Mahomes is off to a good start. I'm not ready to crown him four games into his career, but he's definitely playing well.”

“My right hand is a monster.”

“We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and self-defense. However, I am not convinced that combat wea...”

“It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my opinion, it is useless without that 1 percent. It's like...”

“When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume.”

“As someone who took an oath to defend this country, I refuse to sit idle until the unimaginable occurs: Iran cheats or simply runs out the clock, and the largest state sponsor of terrorism t...”

“I think 'Rake' was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A.”

“Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.”

“The future of fashion is light, durable clothes.”

“Have a strong mind and a soft heart.”

“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”

“You remember driving your kids to Little League, and they're nervous about making the team, and you're encouraging them. Forty years down the road, we're having the same conversation. Only i...”

“The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.”

“Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.”