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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.
When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.
Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.
Of course I am tough, but I am smart, too. I'm more smart than tough. People watching my record and say that this guy is tough. This is not about tough; this is about mind. You think when you fight. This is about everything.
If the Internet has been called a great democratizer, perhaps what social media has done is let anyone enter the beauty pageant. Teens can cover up pimples, whiten teeth, and even airbrush with the swipe of a finger, curating their own image to become prettier, thinner, and hotter.
Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
Nobody's going to tell me that my dog doesn't love me. That's crazy talk.
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
As I read more and more — and it was not all verse, by any means — my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.
The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
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.
Many people could benefit from meditation.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?
Leadership is influence.
