music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess. Ani DiFranco The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. Joseph Addison Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. George Lucas The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world. M. Ward I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again. Zoe Lister-Jones God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered. John Cleese The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going t...

in Chicago theater. I did a bunch of plays, but I was non-equity. For a lot of people, non-equity means you're not yet professional. But for me, if you're in a mainstream theater, you're doing something real. Denis O'Hare Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. Ron Perlman Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature. Rosamund Pike Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress. Mark Udall If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out! Josh Hopkins What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror. Anish Kapoor The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring. C...

of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat. Gwen Moore If you ever, ever, ever want to complain about what's going on in the U.S., you should vote because then you have a right to. If you want to complain, you should vote. Ashley Greene Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention. Matt Groening I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A. Nia Vardalos What's important to have is a president that's focused on jobs, the economy, giving our children a better future and keeping our nation strong and safe. Mary Fallin If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead. Daniel Baldwin The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism. Francis...

for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work. Famke Janssen I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly. Aloe Blacc Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women. Alex Kapranos Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me. LaToya Jackson In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done. Mel Smith There is something greater than any nation; it is the spirit which created the nation. Bryant H. McGill The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers w...

begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time. Robert Lanza It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world. Chris Kattan The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? Georges Duhamel I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day. Bam Margera A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived. Paul Rand Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio. Paul Simon Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. Willy Ley Art indeed...

read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months. Matt Mullenweg I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person. Andrew Denton For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity. Victoria Woodhull We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally. Ajay Naidu There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character. Kathryn Bigelow Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer. Chuck Jon...

look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?' Nathan Myhrvold Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to. Octavia Butler Before 9/11, absolutely, there were concerns about terrorism; but the world fundamentally changed. Richard Fadden People ought to have more control over their lives. Saxby Chambliss When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not. Jonathan Safran Foer I'm still very much Kate. Kate Middleton I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious. Kim Kardashian As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first s...

level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources. Wangari Maathai Those days were very tough. All my teammates are white, and it was a different time. I couldn't go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn't stay in the same hotels. Juan Marichal Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company! Michael Caine I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals. Christian Slater I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to. William Landay Tonight, I am pleased to announce tha...

ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions. Daniel Radcliffe It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions. Harry Browne All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way. Lena Dunham When I was 13, I moved from New Jersey to Germany with my family. The high school was so supportive of my dream to continue with my theater training; instead of taking PE, I would get credit for dance lessons. Nina Arianda The last person I'd date is some rich kid who's had everything handed to her on a plate. Give me a normal girl any day. Nick Carter Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather...

my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time. Natasha Calis I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me. Ang Lee Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith. Thomas S. Monson All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom. Linda Fiorentino The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together. William Hague You can't applaud a referee. Alex Ferguson Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create. Dan Auerbach I think cleaning house at the C...

If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach. Bradley A. Smith At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world. Celine Dion Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field. Alec Baldwin Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the truly free-form town halls may be over. Mark McKinnon But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in. Mel Torme People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that...

and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back. Jason Segel We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists. John Pistole I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream. Lennart Nilsson The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves. Walid Jumblatt Memories are what you no longer want to remember. Joan Didion I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery. Aeschylus Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images. Benjamin Millepied ...

entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind. Gary L. Francione Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight. Haile Gebrselassie It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box. Joel Coen I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college. Jonathan Ames That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun. Monica Seles If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical. Matt Gonzalez The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility. Salva Kiir Mayardit I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So f...

But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world? Jonathan Safran Foer You just have to stoke that furnace throughout the day. Marilu Henner And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. Chaim Potok Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along. Allen Klein Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out. Bruce Boxleitner He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life. Doris Lessing Easier to climb up, than to just hang o...

only recently that people have begun to connect dots and go, 'Oh, that's the same person that did this, this, this, this and this!' which I take as a compliment. One time somebody called me an illusionist, and that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said. Carrie Preston True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale. Harold Brodkey Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. Barbara Kingsolver The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. Lucian Freud You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society. Adam Carolla In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters. Midge Ure Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movie...