When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.
A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.'
When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.
I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.
It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.
When you play so many outcasts and derelicts, or even a murderer, you need to play someone healthy.
You can't go over every beat, every second, and worry about how you can do it better - it'll eat you alive.
You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.
I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.
I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.
There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground.
But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?
And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions.
There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning.
They're calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and they're not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed.
You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor.
You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that.
And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.
