Every accepted public quote

“'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.”

“I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes pla...”

“I didn't serve and volley until I got to Wimbledon in '77.”

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”

“What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from,...”

“The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no po...”

“I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.”

“However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, prote...”

“I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental...”

“When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show.”

“Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.”

“A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.”

“I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times gu...”

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”

“There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.”

“The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.”

“Kumikirot ang tyan? Kumikirot ang ulo? Correlation? I therefore conclude na ang utak ay parang tyan, sumasakit kapag walang laman.”

“You have as much laughter as you have faith.”

“Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.”

“I'm not a great one for looking back.”

“There is no worse situation to enter competition than losing the home opener.”

“The courage of living is - to believe to love to start -again”

“I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was.”

“I'm a Disney fan. Like, seriously, if I see Mickey Mouse, I light up.”

“Usually, turkey burger recipes result in something so lifeless and tasteless that drowning one in ketchup (that most perfect and delicious of condiments) doesn't help much. Part of the probl...”

“I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart...”

“My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.”

“I have to say that it was working with my grandpa, who grew up on a farm in Mountain Home, Idaho, that had the most influence. Witnessing his work ethic and hearing his stories gave me an ap...”

“I think it's OK if somebody likes my music and likes Sam Hunt's music, too. And I think if we're both selling records, it's good for everybody. I think it allows other records to get made.”

“The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.”

“A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.”

“Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.”

“In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.”

“As the sergeant said to the recruit: "You might as well be happy, mate - no one cares if you ain't."”

“I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.”

“'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, th...”

“I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a...”

“One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.”

“I have fallen in love with you, and there is no future for us. That you burst into my life suddenly only a short time ago. That it's too fast, too soon, and you will leave the same way you c...”

“I have learned to delegate.”

“The overwhelming success of San Antonio B-Cycle has proven that San Antonio is a model city for bike-sharing, and as we work toward creating a fitter city, the bike-share program encourages...”

“We've all recognized the moment when the world has handed us a situation that is bigger than our youth can handle, and we have to grow up in a second. And when you do get to the other side,...”

“I think athletes in general are actors. We perform in front of big crowds. People pay to come see you play. So, people come see you to basically act.”

“I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides...”

“There have been times that I've wept as I've gone from city to city and I've seen how far people have wandered from God.”

“Destroying any nation does not require the use of atomic bombs or the use of long range missiles... It only requires lowering the quality of education and allowing cheating in the examinatio...”

“There are a lot of people who approached me after 'Dangal' and 'Stree' to do films in lead roles with great money. But I don't want to rush into it. I want you to call me with a happy face t...”

“If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.”