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My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

I've got to stand up for the sport.

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

I put the weight on after we were together. I put on about 20 pounds when we got married, and people were flipping their lids. And then I put on more after that, and I've gone up and down since then.

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.