Ayn Rand Quotes
An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.
Quotes to Explore
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.
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Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
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My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
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If you're going into music, work on your music and do it as well as you can. And look at it as a business. I'm in it to make a living, too.
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An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.
