I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.
Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.
I don't write songs, songs write me. . . . Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. . . . The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.
The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.
Love is lovelier The second time around.
If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.
Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week.
I want to make it so that so many things happen. . . that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.
For me it's about the character, not as much about the genre of it [movie]. I'm excited that I get to work and play interesting characters and I'm not just the girl who gets to play the girlfriend or the wife. I get to play real women who have struggles and troubles and passions and that's always what I hope to do no matter what format that lies in.
I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.
I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is.