God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow.
Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet.
Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are
But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.
I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.
Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.
There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.
I never think anyone will like what I do. I'm always terrified the critics won't like my film and of course you always count the people who leave at the screening. They are on your death list. The people who stayed, stayed because they wanted to. You see it in a different way with an audience. And when the screening Is over it's such a relief. It's such a struggle.
The obsession with food filled my childhood - that's what happens when your parents are from a place or time where people really might starve. In America, my Jordanian father spent decades cooking professionally and pursuing his dream of a restaurant, and it was one of the central ways that he explained himself to his American children. Even though he's a passionate talker, he has a hell of a time with listening. His cooking gave him a way of having a conversation - which was a really interesting thing for a writer to look at.
I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!
Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.