General quotes
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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
Once we decided to be in this industry, we have to be ready for everything. You have to be strong but hard working. No pain, no gain.
Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
Sex appeal is not on purpose.
Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.
I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.
Chocolate is one of the world's most beloved discoveries, and when we need a quick boost of energy and endorphins, chocolate is the go-to treat.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.
We're investing billions of dollars in housing, in home care on the medical side. We're investing billions of dollars in public transit that is not just creating good jobs now but is going to help people get to and from their good jobs in more reliable ways.
Every one of us is different in some way but for those of us who are more 'different', we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing as they can... just differently.
Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting.
The older you get, the farther from the camera you need to be.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
