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Quotes by American Authors
"My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor."
"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
"There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things."
"I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away."
"It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not."
"Man suppresses the truth, mixes it with error, and develops the religions of the world."
"I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'."
"I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything."
"The only way to free yourself from all the anxiety you're feeling about the difficult conversation you know you need to have is by having the difficult conversation. It's time. It's been time. You'll survive it. Just be brave and start talking."
"But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore."
"Christianity means a lot more than church membership."
"It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company."
"With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses."
"Women will only be truly sexually liberated when we arrive at a place where we can see ourselves as having sexual value and agency irrespective of whether of not we are the objects of male desire."
"Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions."
"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control."
"About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting."
"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."
"My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana."
"She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political--for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible for us to come to the work of writing clearer, ready for the journey. (bell hooks about Toni Cade Bambara)"
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."
"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
"Imagine the greatness this world would know if kindness were as contagious and enduring as the common cold."
"You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it."
"Fear is always triggered by creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome. This is nothing to be ashamed of. It is, however, something to be dealt with."
"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."
"Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."
"I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine."
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