I think, in the future, people are going to look back and say, 'I can't believe that gay and lesbian people had to fight to be able to get married.'
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.
At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.
When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn't join it back together so great.
People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.
After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important - honoring God.
God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?
Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.
I've waited my whole life to be able to have body hair - but I never thought I'd have back hair. But what are you going to do, right?
I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place.
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.
If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.
I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there's more to life than track.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
