There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.
The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge.
I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.
As an advisor, I can say what I want. If I were a politician, I would constantly have to compromise, and I'm incapable of doing that.
I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship. . . it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.
One of the pre - requisites for children becoming proactive and responsible citizens is the availability of enough role models inside and outside the school.
The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.
I've always wanted to travel. My mom was a geography queen, I knew the atlas, and I looked at her pictures of all her world travels because she traveled a lot before I was born, with my brother. I was always so jealous. I kind of chose a job that would be a way I could see the world without having to pay for it. I'm not going to be a flight attendant. I'm way too busy to be that.
It used to be that the working class, broadly speaking - Americans who worked with their hands, who worked in factories, who were not in management - were an interest group, a political interest group. And their main spokespersons were the Democrats. Their platform was the Democratic Party. And that began to change after the 1960s. Not for black or other working class Americans, but for white working class.
Life is to be enjoyed, not endured
Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile - the instinctive, brilliant smile of a woman who knows what feeble creatures men can be. You couldn't learn to smile like that. It was something a woman either knew the minute she was born, or never knew at all. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")