As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen.
I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.
No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.
Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.
What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?
I think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.
When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.
Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
