We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.
The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.
Nobody: It is strange that you do not remember any of your poetry, William Blake.
Williams: Man, you come right out of a comic book.
Staff Sergeant William James: This box is full of stuff that almost killed me.
David Mills: You've read my files, right? You've seen the things I've done? William Somerset: No.
Cmdr. William Riker: Mr. Worf, you do remember how to fire phasers?
"Suspect": I'm the Zodiac. Inspector William Armstrong: And how did you kill your victims? "Suspect": With a gun. No... with a hammer.
I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.
What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.
I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.
Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.
I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring.
AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.
It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.
I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.
