I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.
I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.
Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'
Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.
I try to not be too hard on myself regarding my diet. I've always been a workout-to-eat kind of a girl. I like to eat, to say the least.
It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.
It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.
Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.
I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life.
I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.
I love - oh God, I shouldn't say this - I'm really good at bringing orchids back from the dead.
There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' And what brings me peace is the scripture.
I always say horror films are great date movies. In the first twenty minutes, you're going to end up in each other's arms.
Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.
Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
I'm saying there's plenty of money out there for great consumer entrepreneurs with great consumer products attacking really big markets.
The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.
I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.
