Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing. Ian Mckellen When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect. David Steinberg It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will. Miuccia Prada Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island. Lactantius And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made. Tom Scholz The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotiona

always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are. Wallace Shawn We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. Luciano De Crescenzo I want a leader that sets out a path. I want one that doesn't just talk about cuts, but talks about the shining city on the hill. We're only going to get out of this problem if we grow this economy. Kevin McCarthy I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing? Lenny Kravitz It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again. Marie Windsor One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and ant

money or the fame. I'm very choosy, which is why I haven't played the typical role that people expect to see from someone of my stature and size, as the mean jock or the preppy. It's very easy to see me like that. That's why I go against it in different roles. Kellan Lutz At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. Candice Swanepoel The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one. James Surowiecki I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat. Michael Jordan No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can. Harvey Mackay I don't blame anybody for using the tax code to their advantage. Lindsey Graham People know when you're frontin'. Method Man Mostly, I

are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back. Carrie Ann Inaba When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care. Ferran Adria Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay you to make something until you have a few things you can show that you've directed. I got my start by making short films on my own. Joseph Kosinski Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something. Bill Sienkiewicz Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. Karl Marx Sabbath -

get if you spent that hour working. If you work for an hourly rate, this is an easy calculation. Even if you work for a salary and a fixed number of hours, the principle is the same: It's whatever your salary works out to per hour. Emily Oster A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing. Stefano Langone Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven't liked all of his decisions and some of his rhetoric. But generally, I think the administration is quite open and accessible. David Rubenstein I'm shy in my personal life. Ryan Seacrest I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children. Lea Thompson We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our famil

good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. Robert Bringhurst The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day. Pixie Lott Actions are visible, though motives are secret. Samuel Johnson I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress. Ashley Greene Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said, 'Americans are too clean...' I took no offense. Linda Wells I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think. Evan Dando The whole rise of n

from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it. Irving Azoff It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out. Beck Rap is just to me very annoying. James Hetfield Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction. Joshua Foer I have my good and bad days, but when it's tough I just push through it. Christie Rampone I would assume the case will never be closed. Richard M. Helms I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children. Marian Keyes When I dress up, I have to have a lot of help. I was in a T-shirt until a few minutes ago. Kristen Stewart I never really saw myself as writing scien

are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up. Gabourey Sidibe I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor. Jack Prelutsky One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. Marshall McLuhan If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange. Andy Partridge People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time

grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not. Michael Morpurgo Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. Edith Wharton It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say. Rachel Stevens Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death. Lena Dunham I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me. Rachel Hunter I don't have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove. Cristiano Ronaldo In case you haven&#

is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. Greg Lynn A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph. Dorothea Lange I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem. Randy Hultgren Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits. Elizabeth Drew Yankee Stadium was the only thing we had in the Bronx. It was an institution. Penny Marshall I'm not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I'm just respecting myself enough as an artist to give myself room to grow and not to be devoured all in one go. Mika I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished. Daniel Day-Lewis God

on me. My Dad, a Korean War vet and a Chicago cop for 30 years, told me, 'You better pick up a brick and hit him in the head.' That's when I thought, 'Wow, I'm going to have to start dealing with things in a different way.' Steve Wilkos A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts. Antoine Lavoisier I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story. John Hench Let go of yesterday. Joel Osteen It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically. Mike Leigh I don't sit in the corner waiting for death

help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Steve Jobs It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad. Charles Eames Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. Hosea Ballou I think I used to be lower maintenance. I think I'm slowly becoming higher maintenance. Alison Brie I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure. Eddie Murphy I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician. Ray LaMontagne I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics. Sharad Pawar Of course I read Braille, yes

zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon I really don't have any weaknesses. I do have areas of my life that I am working on to grow, heal and evolve. Giving myself permission to rest is an area I am working on. Not rescuing my children and grandchildren is another area. Iyanla Vanzant Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts. Phoebe Cates To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal. Jorge Luis Borges Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie. Denise Richards My mom and dad

train so hard and when you care so much about doing what you do, there's a little bit of nerves that come with that. But nerves that won't prevent you form performing, nerves that, hopefully, allow you to be that much more motivated and inspired to do well. Sidney Crosby Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity. Emmanuel Jal I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected. Bryan Adams Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal. Jack Abramoff I love doing the action stuff. It's soooo much fun! Paul Walker I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates. Jon Heder I have a strong sense of self, but that's not a negative thing. Ray LaMontagne Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you

were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist. Emeli Sande At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants. Jeff Hawkins There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America. Rafael Correa Consumption may be regarded as negative production. Alfred Marshall Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. Karl Kraus I've been on a lot of shows that nobody cared about. James Denton To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. J. P. Donleavy We play a long show, and you can't beat yourself up too much over it, as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good fun on the road and it still is. Andy Taylor You rarely pay the rent by doing

of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women. Whitney Cummings Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting. Eric Bana I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people. Charlize Theron I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous. Shalom Harlow A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things. Yann Martel From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness. Benj

got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.' Curtis Jackson Once a Raider, always a Raider. Al Davis It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers. Iyad Allawi I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere. David Blaine By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz. Ken Burns At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy. Hilary Duff Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me. Paul Farmer Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam The mathemat

straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen. Bam Margera I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material. Bruce McCulloch I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't. Carey Mulligan For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists. Elia Kazan I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can. Gary Oldman A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber 'warfare.' H

in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid putting some of the noxious materials into the sea. I think people are more aware than they once were, the air is cleaner, water generally is, in spite of the fact that there are more people. Sylvia Earle We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord. Michael Novak I don't like junk food, just because I don't like the taste of it, but I don't go to the gym - ever. Isla Fisher Nothing in human life is inherently private. Terry Eagleton Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities. Paul Wolfowitz Attitude is everything. Diane von Furstenberg The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts. Arthur Erickson I learned from Arnold Schwa

and that you must prolong the silhouette. The shoe elongates the leg and does it discreetly. The goal is to get people to look at a woman's legs. It's all about the leg. No, it's not about the leg. It's about the woman. Christian Louboutin I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back. Douglas Preston The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. Alan Watts I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song. Jordin Sparks I was also interested in formulating the path of chemical reactions. Kenichi Fukui I'm more conservative with make-up. My everyday look is a bit of

who are realizing their dreams that they've worked so hard for. That's a pretty cool thing. You saw the emotion from some of these guys the other day. And then, the second thing is this total sense of hope and optimism. And, I think that's great for everybody. Roger Goodell When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die! Anna Letitia Barbauld I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves. Anika Noni Rose I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I graduated in a class of 67 kids, so it was pretty small, and I knew and loved everybody. Odette Annable While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. Eric Alterman The best movies ar

exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it? Kate Atkinson Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy. Tertullian Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. D. H. Lawrence I mean do women like to get the crap scared out of them at the movies? Sure. Of course. Jerry O'Connell It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else. Rachael Ray I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian. David Cronenberg I drink tons of water, because with the entire running around you can get dehydrated. Jasmine Tookes Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all. Dalton Trumbo Eventual

that I could use my technology that I developed as a graduate student - DNA microarray technology - to create a chip that would simultaneously screen for all viruses ever discovered, and furthermore have the built-in capability of discovering new viruses. Joseph DeRisi My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking. Amy Winehouse While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist. Harry Browne I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity. Shawn Ryan I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head. Rafik Hariri The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different wa

about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.' Adele Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further. Patrick McHenry I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth. David Mamet Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience. Lasse Hallstrom I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything. Tonya Harding Call us the future from your past. Fred Schneider I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family. Diego Maradona I like my coffee light. Elizabeth Ban

be broadcast to a mass audience, the fact that the stakes were so much higher now that every moment became fraught caused them to become more cautious, and the consultants very gradually but inevitably became literal reactionaries. Joe Klein We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers. Otto Schily When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted to do another collected stories. I wanted to do another book like 'Drown' that focused specifically on infidelity. Junot Diaz Do not give voice to bigotry. Bill Bennett I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.' Elizabeth Berkley We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything. John Henry Ne

effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to. Susan Rice You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that. Fergie You have to be proud of who you are. Bai Ling My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut. Malin Akerman People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre. Alexei Sayle My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go. Hillary Clinton Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words. Thomas Kinkade Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think. Dolph Lundgren It's not the time to look for excuses. Rafael Nadal The instruments, gl

still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling. Karen Thompson Walker In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play. Darell Hammond I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans. Lance Bass I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can. Mariah Carey I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable. Bob Newhart The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasur

It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge. Brendan Gleeson You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours. Robin Yount Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it. John Cleese Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. Lance Armstrong If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. Salman Rushdie I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work. Catherine Opie I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life. Celine Dion I'd just turned 50, we

I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.' Pat Benatar Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way. Aaron Tveit I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can. Jilly Cooper Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. Romain Rolland Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love. Amos Lee A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about. Pico Iyer My range is limited. Bob Dylan Conducting is a stran

You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!' Evander Holyfield If you want to do something, you find a way. Amber Heard Well, I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a prime minister. Christine Milne One of the things I love about cinema is the range. Mike Figgis There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to. Sam Harris And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough. Nolan Ryan We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they'

on next year or even next week. You put aside thoughts about which preschool you're going to enroll him in and focus on how he's doing right now. It's not the Norman Rockwell relationship that you sign on for when becoming a parent. John C. McGinley You don't want to be the site that people should use. You want to be the site they can't stop using. Roelof Botha I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up. Nicholas Stern If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat. Peter Mullan You never know what an artist is going to create next. Kesha No not at all... it is rare for shows to make it as long as Once and Again... It was a pretty good run. Sela Ward Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough

times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.' Raekwon My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it. Susana Martinez Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength. Jay Alan Sekulow I painted sets before I ever performed. Christopher Guest I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both. Shia LaBeouf I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world any

I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it? Ben Horowitz It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass. Marat Safin If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life. Don Johnson It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better. Mitch Landrieu Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world. Taryn Manning I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal. Byron Katie I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what&

Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?' Tom Hiddleston I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career. Ice Cube I'm only as rich as my next film. Mickey Rourke Once I moved to London I thought it was unbeatable. I work a lot in L.A. and love it, but would never give up London. It's a true world city, with an energy that's unique. Bruno Tonioli To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries. Mitch McConnell There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget. John Bolton As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football. Nick Ferguson I am studying ancient ci

in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own. John Lahr I deal with postpartum feelings by reaching out to mom friends. I became very close with some of the women in my prenatal yoga class. Alyssa Milano I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words. Ann Hood I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work. Bernard Hinault I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road. Benjamin F. Wade I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver. Chely Wright Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and e

in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun. Bryan Batt I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial. Constance Baker Motley You must spend money to make money. Plautus So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity. George Saunders Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now. John Carmack I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way. Bill Bryson I'm not really a flirt; I just try to be myself. Nial

down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me. Ted Allen My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach. Hope Solo I've dated all kinds of guys and didn't know who I'd end up with. But I kind of assumed it would be someone more like my dad than not. Miranda Lambert I like to help create team spirit in the dressing room. I feel that I've got loads of love to give. Paul Gascoigne I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing. Elvis Presley Switch off reality TV! I've only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it. Daphne Guinness When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're th

are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions on free assembly and about the rising tide of everyday regulation has seriously impeded community activity - from organising street parties to helping children. Geoff Mulgan I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor. Betty White Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. Lajos Kossuth I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem. Michael Moore When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough. Donald Trump During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted. Vidal Sassoon My weight fluctuates, like any normal girl, and I have times when I feel insecure. Khloe Kardashian Dialogue and education

faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God. Feisal Abdul Rauf Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public. Ice Cube I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people. Dick Van Dyke Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color. Lela Rose North Korea not only wants unification, it absolutely has to have unification. That's really the only way this state can feel secure. Brian Reynolds Myers Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins. Horace Smith Cricket is basically baseball on valium. Robin Williams If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? Lemuel K. Washburn I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else. Lady Gaga I'm a lib

protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion. Gary Ross Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature. Tayari Jones I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN. Gregg Easterbrook I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible. Carey Mulligan My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association. Gail Collins Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination. Christina Ricci To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get

difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard. Thomas G. Stemberg You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year. Henry Ford I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town. Aaron Paul I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that. Bobby Bowden Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life. Lyn Nofziger When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes. Anton Yelchin Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority. Carolyn Murphy It&

everything that we love. When you're beginning to rot a little bit, all of the videos crammed into your head, all of the extensions that extend your various powers, are going to being to seem a little secondary. Gregory Stock I'm just passionately in love with my kids. Sheena Easton I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it. William H. Seward I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don't quite get it. Guys who just don't quite get it. Bruce McCulloch Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road. Steve Albini I think my faith is important. Being young as well, sometimes it's difficult, but I've got a good family behind me as well. Jermain Defoe I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed. Saint Basil I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt. Neil LaBute Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes. Gordon Ramsay I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity. Bernard Marcus When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard. Carmen Electra We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well. Jennifer Egan I think architects tend to believe t

I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom. Peter Guber There is always a sacred hour in the theatre - after rehearsals and before performances, in the afternoon, between three and five o'clock. Normally the theatre is empty then, and this is a wonderful hour. Henning Mankell I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid. Zachary Levi Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order. Fareed Zakaria I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life. Sally Field I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dan

You're like an athlete - if you haven't been practising things tighten up. I had to do a lot of practice work, but I got through it. Even when I was 21 I would have a 40-minute nap on the day of a show, and I will still do that. Michael Crawford I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy. Jonathan Kozol Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York. Laura Bush One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue. Mary Antin In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists. Hillary Clinton We have a unique opportunity as Disney because it really is the only true global entertainment brand. Bob Iger I'm anxious about losing anonymity. Brooke Smith I always saw myself a

array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states. Tony Campolo I'm not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me. Caroline Corr In New York City, you can walk down the street and see a girl in a trench who looks equally as cool as a girl wearing Lululemon. It's like you're watching models. You see a little of everything right by you. Hoda Kotb I am in my own head most of the time. Vivienne Westwood I never want to be just one thing - I want to be multidimensional. Katy Perry Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum? Christopher Marlowe To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance. Steve Kazee If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States. Chris Christie At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw. James Merrill Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else. Henry Allingham Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me. Dabney Coleman I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here. Carly Fiorina I don't kee

by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines. Theodore C. Sorensen Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience. Jeffrey Eugenides I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare. Steve Coogan All the women in my family were superb cooks. Randy Wayne White I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy. Mary Archer In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong. Craig Newmark A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated. Iain Glen What I do feel is th

of his writing, and I feel like he's one of our unsung heroes. He's been pretty much forgotten, and I think he needs to be recognized. He had to go all the way to Europe to find recognition and acceptance, and I'd just like to bring him to the forefront. Michael K. Williams I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl. Yvonne Strahovski When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides. Louis C. K. Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award. Elfriede Jelinek Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America. Bob Casey, Jr. After seei

and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made? Aubrey McClendon I can't believe that women have got to put on so much in the morning. What time do women wake up? Man, I put a t-shirt and jeans on, and that's it. Brandon T. Jackson Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes. L.A. Reid I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch something for the first time with a room full of people at Sundance. It's not a good idea. Ellen Page As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid. Will Self 'Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite char

out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite. Viggo Mortensen I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university. Jay McInerney We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation. Gary Hamel Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable. Tony Visconti It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life. Jean Ingelow People are afraid because I'm candid. They're always worried I'm going to get into trouble. Steve Madden Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well. Bill Parc

she instilled in me a belief that I could do anything I wanted to do. It wasn't a matter of, 'Can I?' or 'Should I?' It was just, 'You can, you must, you will!' She wanted me to believe that anything was possible. Maria Shriver I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation. John Sherman Cooper Among the reasons for this was the fact that the U.S.A. is one mass market. It is only when you have a mass market that large-scale manufacturing which involves very substantial expenditures can be justified. Paul Hoffman In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect. Karl Rove Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate. Francis Parker Yockey 'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wro

symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do know they're tremendously powerful. I mean, there's a vampire on 'Sesame Street.' And Count Chocula. I don't know why it's so powerful. Alan Ball In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone. Silvan Shalom If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book. E. L. James There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.' Gary Clark, Jr. The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'. John Ashcroft I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most gen

lose but now I see myself more as making players play better. Sometime you do what you have to do and you have to perform, that is still there, but in my mind I am thinking about making the guys around me play better and that is never an easy thing to do. Thierry Henry Endorphins are a very powerful thing. Irene Rosenfeld In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged. Lilly Ledbetter I tend not to make fun of religious groups anywhere I play. Maz Jobrani It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys. Tom Stewart I weep at everything. Chris Evans There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race. Isaac Hayes Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news. Ethel Waters Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice? William Dean Howells

of the film and the fact that there are so many stories and characters to tie up. I haven't seen the film yet but I think it will be a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but it was nice just to round it off and give it some closure. Harry Melling Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style. Jurgen Habermas It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action. Harold Ramis You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks. Cameron Diaz Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. Felix Frankfurter When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things

came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months. David Morrissey If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do. William Pollard Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction. Rudy Rucker I was never a child actor. I was a child performer. Christopher Walken That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government. Lyn Nofziger I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take. Tahar Ben Jelloun Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. James A. Garfie

and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it. Geraldine Brooks But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks. Bulent Ecevit 'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice. Jason Reitman My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others. Randy Jackson Hey, I'm happy someone is hiring me. It could be all over. I'm so lucky to have a job. Kevin Williamson I come from a family of great readers and storytellers. Katherine Dunn Louis Malle is maybe one of my favori

manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games. Ayelet Waldman The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great. Jessica Lange Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not. Craig McCracken I write my songs because I've lived them. Katy Perry It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret. Candice Swanepoel Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting cr

happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the '70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened. Steve Forbes I would quite like to create a fragrance for men though - something that I like. Jennifer Aniston There's no excuse for fur in this day and age. Stella McCartney I have a name, I have to take advantage of it. Pierre Cardin But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. John Marshall Harlan I would do a movie musical. Alia Shawkat As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth. Jeff Greenfield The cause of homelessness is lack of housing. Jonathan Kozol The more you understand me, the less characters I can p

cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish. Terrence McNally I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to. Thabo Mbeki Yeah, I'm just blessed to have this very strong thing, my vocals. I'm very healthy in that regard. Bob Seger With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. Georg C. Lichtenberg If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now. Barry Diller It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Ev

means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history. Pope Francis Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one! Brian Eno Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect. Benny Hill Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study. Norman Lamm I see myself as a traveller. Annie Lennox It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest. David Korten Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy. Martin Feldstein I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article. Adrian Belew Queen's University flies t

think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up. Glenn Beck We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment. Lillian Gordy Carter My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life. Mindy Kaling The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war. Timothy West I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it! Alexander Wang Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out. Adam Jones My father used to say, 'Well, Ann, maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought

no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society. Donna Shalala Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow. Skitch Henderson But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so. Jonah Goldberg I'm also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now. Bill Mumy Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it. Cody Horn In fashion, women have more sensitivity, more sense of the body, so they know how

but in a good way. You just never know what's going to happen. And things change constantly. But there's always opportunities for new work, so you just have to enjoy the job that you're on while you're on it because it doesn't last forever. Candice Accola Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person. Zinedine Zidane I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth. Venus Williams If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim. Lee Myung-bak In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children. Ayelet Waldman I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen. Fred Durst Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists. Victor Pinchuk I g

be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all. Sufjan Stevens Sometimes I'm an ass, sometimes I'm sweet as peaches. Milo Ventimiglia Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. Marshall McLuhan Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over. Jon Landau Let's judge a man on what he's done. Barbara Bush I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson. Ernest Holmes Do what you will,

of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae. Lupe Fiasco My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.' Paula Poundstone I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart knowledge. Francine Rivers As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs. Anthony Minghella I don't see myself being an actress forever. Carrie Snodgress I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did. Chuck Lorre You can't always be a leading lady. Lauren Bacall The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could

then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing. Elizabeth Berkley The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. Jacques Ellul I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies. Eva Herzigova You know, this is not about endorsements in the primary. We have to get through a primary first. Katherine Harris When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight. John Lahr There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done

people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks. Madonna Ciccone My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet. Rainn Wilson To me, the biggest notes and the longest notes are the easiest notes. Jennifer Hudson Elle MacPherson is absolutely amazing; she is just so beautiful. Carol Alt It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it. Sharon Olds Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients. Cheech Marin The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution. Leopoldo Lopez The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has mature

was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments. Edie Falco Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it. W. P. Kinsella When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it from the first song through the last song. It's been so long since a band has put out a record like that. Steven Adler Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the biggest carbon footprint in the world, it doesn't mean they're stupid. Jeff Goodell Music is like a huge release of tension. James Taylor I love the first two X-Men movies be