Buddha Quotes
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.
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PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Garry Kasparov
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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I worked my butt off.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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It's brilliant having loads of girls running after you. It's also a shock when you realise just how much attention you're getting. Eventually, you start to think, 'I'd rather settle down and be normal.'
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
