A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all...
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I could...
Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.
If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.
Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military run...
My big break was when I won 'Search for a Supermodel Australia,' and then I came second in the world series, and that was all good, but I was just having fun; it wasn't real to me.
I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.
Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.
Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general.
I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.
It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.
First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.
There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.
I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication o...
Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice.
Before GoPro, if you wanted to have any footage of yourself doing anything, whether it's video or photo, you not only needed a camera, you needed another human being. And if you wanted the footage to be good, you needed that other human being to have...
I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good.
