I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.
Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.
What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'
My daughter and I have this thing we call a PMA: 'perfect moment alert.' I try to really notice when we're having a PMA.
I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.
I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.
I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it!
My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.
I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.
If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the people's desperate need for change.
It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on ...
I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!
In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation.
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.
I called my family, saying, 'Guess what? I got a new show. It's about a cop who travels in time.' And they said, 'I think we've seen that one.'
We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.
Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'
My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.'
