I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.
What I care about is whether or not a leader will work with America's working people, whether or not a leader cares about responsibility and honest work and whether or not a leader will fight to keep the American Dream alive.
The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.
When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.
All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there's going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism.
To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
His Magnificence - Your Manifestation.I will make of thee a great nation
I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?
Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
With timid curiosity, I asked, “what do you mean the old bodies get reused?
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
You have a college degree? You can barely talk.
Eat your heart out. Oh, wait. You can’t. It’s not organic.
Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself.
Babamın bilgiççe söylediği ve benim de bilgiççe onayladığım şu sözünü unutmaktan halen korku duyarım: bazı temel incelikler dünyaya adaletsiz dağıtılmıştır.
Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.
I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
