I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and...
In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to the girl he loves has not gone the way of the rotary pho...
Remember that in life, everything that you want is outside of your comfort zone. Because if something is inside your comfort zone, it's either something you already have or something so trivial as to be undesirable: you don't want something you alrea...
Is there a problem, Ms. Parker? Something you want to say to me?" Reaching for his tie, he began to loosen it, unraveling it with his fingers, angry eyes still locked on mine. "I'm not sure I like being your pet. Or science project, I don't know whic...
Back and forth from Brooklyn to Manhattan. New York at night, from its bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to the city, it took all my fantasies and set them on fire, turned them into flickering constellations of light. Then it did the same with...
[If you hear a] story about how eating sausage leads to anal cancer, you will be skeptical, because it has never happened to anyone you know, and sausage, after all, is delicious.
Bud White: Something's wrong with the Nite Owl. I know it in here, [points to his chest] Bud White: I know it. That prick Exley shot the wrong guys. Whoever killed my partner, is still out there. I... If I could work cases like a real detective, I co...
Pike Bishop: [Holding a lit cigar to the fuses] You know what this is? Herrera: Cuidado! Pike Bishop: Any trouble, no guns for the General. Herrera: Ha, ha-ha-ha-ha. Very smart. That's very smart for you damn gringos. So nobody can rob the guns. Pike...
Every day you feel like you can't control the forces affecting your fate-your job,the government,your addiction,your depression,your money. So you stage micro-revolts. You customise your ringtone,you paint your room,you collect stamps. You choose. Ch...
Feelings are feelings. They don't have dumb or smart labels,
If you think you're smart, think twice to be smarter.
There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.
Maybe one did have to be smart in order to kill.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate.
Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.
You is kind. You is smart. You is important.
I was smart and married somebody who could do for me what I couldn't do for myself.
I'm no genius, but I'm real smart in one area - I picked the right mate.
You need to be smart about what you put in your body.
