On Veterans Day, I can't help think of my uncles who volunteered for the service after fleeing a brutal regime in the Dominican Republic. They hadn't been in America long, but they were already so grateful for its opportunities that they were eager t...
Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.
I've gotten an opportunity to work with a lot of the people I've looked up to over the years, and I feel pretty grateful for it.
I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.
Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.
And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a...
But what is great can only begin great.
Grace of God, power of God.
Great praxis demands great piety.
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.
There's a lot of great stuff on TV.
I'm not a great believer in self-help.
Great battles can make great heroes and heroines.
I'm not a great writer.
I've never been a great cook.
Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.
I have a great life and I'm super active.
Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.
Great wars can only be fought by great powers.