For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.
Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.
Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails.
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role.
People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.
I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents.
As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.
Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.
President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'
We all know there are problems with Obamacare, and Washington's implementation of it has been abysmal. But rejecting Medicaid won't fix any of those things.
Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.
There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.
