When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.
When I'm not working on the ground, spending time with my husband and daughter puts me at ease.
I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
One time I got fan mail that was from Africa. It's really neat.
Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.
I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.
For a long time, I have been inclined to start a school for the talented children.
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
I volunteer a lot of my time with an organization in New York called The Center for Children and Families.
I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.
I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.
The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.
Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.
When I was a kid, to me, the Evergreen Players were the big time.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
I haven't made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.
'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.
I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
I want to be a New York Giant for a very long time.
It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.
