It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.
Love is such that God grants us one person who we can spend the rest of our life with. It rarely happens that we don't.
I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.
You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.
My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.
The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.
The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable.
No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.
Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
Not one person I know isn't concerned with their appearance. To trivialize fashion is to rob ourselves of a great tool.
Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.
The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
I'm not an Internet person that reads behind-the-scenes stuff. I see a trailer, and if it looks good, then I go. That's that.
I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.
It is not good thinking - either at the corporate level or at the personal level - to believe you can simply walk away from your circumstances.
