Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.
To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office.
Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.
I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.
Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.
It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!
It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.
It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.
I'd love to collaborate with a writer, but I'm such a control freak, it might be difficult.
I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters.
If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.
When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.
My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
I am trying to be a girl who is real and has an opinion. Might say stupid things but not scared of men, and for me that's important.
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
