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When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading ...

Some days, adulting was too much responsibility. Get up for work. Brush your hair. Pay bills. It was an endless list of too many things ...

The history of colonisation is replete with tales of happy, hippy natives dancing around half-naked, taking fantastic drugs and having as much sex as they ...

Like acting, sales works best when hidden.

Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in ...

We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. ...

I like a little chaos. I think that's really true for my inner Buddha. I think I like a little nutsy. Maybe I can't take ...

There Is No Time Like The Present.

So much for land ownership, Henry thinks; it's a modern myth. You can buy and sell rights to use the land; you can't actually own ...

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

She was her steady self again, the one about whom Nonie had said, I admire that woman. Despite all her adversities, Beryl Jones manages to ...

How not to miss those days when the sun was a happy companion that stayed to play all year round and kissed me a careless ...

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.

I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had ...

And Jesus lived happily ever after.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, ...

I'm totally active. I am just this side of hyper. I jog and go to the gym every day. When I'm on the computer, I'm ...

I have fourteen black wives an' one white, de chiefest one. I would sure enough shoo her away dis minute if you tek her place ...

I had never dreamed about the NBA like some guys did. I was a non-scholarship player at an NAIA college. I played on the Boys ...

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to ...

Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible.

In nature everything is connected, interwoven, subject to natural law. We cannot separate ourselves from that, no matter how hard we try.

You're like my favorite song, Nova. The one that I never want to forget. That I want to play over and over again.

I know something you don't ... and that is ... I'M NOT WEARING ANY UNDERWEAR! We're gonna get sexy for a minute!

Doc. There is no 'something else' for me. There's no second option. It's you. It's just you.

I don't listen to Nirvana plugged anymore. I think there's a whole group of people who have semi-forgotten that Nirvana used electric guitars because of ...

Everybody said to me back home, what do you want to go to Alaska for, and I said, because I've never been there, isn't that ...

It's the easiest thing in the world to be kind to someone, to show love, to forgive. You are born with this instinct - it ...

Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections

He said, "Hey."And I said , "Hi."And he said, "Look ... " His eyes were green. He kind of squinted when he talked. "I've got ...

The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and ...

You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.

Nite Owl II: But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American dream?The Comedian: It came true. You're lookin' at it.

He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it ...

Males and females have never seemed to fully understand each other. It will probably continue this way, but I think that's part of the magic ...

Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.

It's not that I don't have kids for some personal reason outside of, I just haven't had kids. And I haven't met someone who wanted ...

Don't steal nobody's cattle or their women. Treat your horse like your best friend, because sometimes that's all you got. Most important, trust and believe ...

Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of ...

Women need a reason for having sex, men just need a place

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

One thing I know for sure is that family is not defined by blood.

No one can soothe my inner being like you. No one can make me look to the future with such excitement like you did. No ...

Ole Anderson! Layin' down could not take me out with a steel toed boot! Could not put me away with a steel toed boot! And ...

A certain degree of power must be granted to public officers, for they would be of no use without it. But the ostensible semblance of ...

We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.

Twitter seems just to be constant updates; it seems to me as promotional tool where people talk themselves up, and I don't want it to ...

Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.

I was 15 or 16 when I first saw 'Once Upon A Time In America,' so I was quite young, but I was completely blown ...

Through the white snow-gate of our ampitheatre, as through a frame we looked eastward upon the summit group; not a tree, not a vestige of ...

Nature was taking back what had once been hers.

Virtue is the only and true nobility.[Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people ... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin.

As an artist, what you do is you put out material constantly. Whether it's films, or TV shows, music ... and you know, you hope ...

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all ...

Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect ...

When he proposed he said, "We'll make such beautiful music together," but in this duet, his part seems to be all rests.

Success is not an accident. It is sheer hard work. There is no short-cuts. You have to take the stairs and you have to start ...

Supposedly I'm impossible to talk to. But it's honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don't have a lot to say.

Technology moves so fast and social media moves so fast because everyone wants the new thing, but also, everyone wants to be where their parents ...

Be honest, Do I give off a vibe that says 'No, handsome stud, I don't want you to make a pass at me,' while at ...

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant ...

She knew every single one of us. Gave us the chance to share in her bed. We all took comfort that she was here and ...

In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 ...

Nothing is ever good enough," he said. He combed my hair with his fingers. "I feel like I'm putting rags on porcelain. I barely tolerate ...

There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or ...

I want to strangle my husband and slam the door as I leave. I want to leave a box of pasta on the counter with ...

[H]aving the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed due to highly invasive and unwarranted electronic surveillance is ...

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be ...

No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of ...

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...

I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or ...

What did you expect? That he'd send you flowers and write you bad poetry? That dead Nemean prowler is pretty much as close to a ...

I was pretty fruity based solely on my appreciation for Nick Carter." "You even had those fucking trading cards," I said, smiling at the memory. ...

Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard.

I remember that through all chaos or problems, there is a solution. So I separate myself for just a moment, whether that means zoning everyone ...

Paleo is not a diet. It's not a fad. It's not a rigid set of rules to follow. It's not a sound bite. It's an ...

'A Face in the Crowd' is Elia Kazan's forgotten movie.

Success means crossing a limit. To cross a limit you need to assume that you have a limit. Assuming a limit is underestimating yourself. If ...

What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cleaning ...

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an ...

How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

Never settle for normal, Miss Lyons," Shinzo told her. "Normal is not natural. Extraordinary is natural, and that's why you're here. To do something extraordinary.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

I should like to know if he has sunk a frigate, alone, with a Fleur-de-Nuit on his back; and as for distinction, my ancestors were ...

Indian IT corporations have made work in the U.S. much more efficient by enhancing their productivity and quality of work. We have helped to add ...

When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird.

Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and ...

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and reply to their reply ... ...

I don't want stuff that's compromising to me as a person, but as long as it has a pathway to redemption and has meaning, there's ...

Get off," she said. "Get off now."Before its too late, and I decide to celebrate a narrow escape from death in the traditional manner of ...

Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than ...

I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we [with brother] never had any competition in baseball. We always tried ...

We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By ...

It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels ...

The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that ...

When you chop wood, chips fly.

He took her hand. If it were in my power, I would take you to that place from your movie, over the rainbow where dreams ...