William Shakespeare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off.
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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I love outdoor winter activities like snow tubing and snowball throwing.
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I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It's much richer tapestry for me than green fields. Fields and wild life make me feel ill. I don't like - I don't want to write about that stuff.
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While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.
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I do have too many eight-inch heels which I never get to wear.
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
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A nanny is a woman who lives in an apartment, but the apartment is not her own. She raises children, teaches them how to walk, how to speak; she gives them food - but these children are not her children. So she is in a very ambiguous place.
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Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.
