Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.
My bedroom was plastered with pictures of Van Damme. My mother was worried about me. Most teenage boys have half-naked women on their walls, and I had Jean-Claude.
During the war, my mother used to take me to the local repertory theatre on a Monday night, and we used to get two seats for the price of one, for nine pence, in the gods.
From the short story (and anthology containing it) DONNY DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE : Donny acted like he didn’t hear me. “You can’t send your mom off into eternity looking like that, Artie. She wouldn’t like it.” He reached into my mother�...
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer.
At all times it is better to have a method.
Attacking is better than defending.
Surviving is good, but overcoming is better.
We've got to play better basketball.
Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
The older I get the better I used to be!
My goal is just to become a better comedian.
It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.
It is better being the victim then the victimizer.
Supposing is good, but finding out is better.
Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.
Good dreams are better than films or books.
