I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you.
Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood til...
Lesson to would-be fame seekers: It's not really a new world when it comes to celebrity. There are no shortcuts. It's still talent, perseverance and hard work. Even the speed and reach of the Net can't create lasting value and income overnight.
When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.
It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its value...
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with...
Being recognized by Hollywood is a dream true; it's really an amazing moment.
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
Anything that can be dreamed is true.
Right is just and true.
No true hero ever believes that they are one.
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
To taste life, so true and real. Sweet serenity.
