No concept is a carrier of life.
If you believe, so will they.
Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.
I had never said, 'dad, I love you'.
It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.
I think he would have been proud and smiling. . . when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.
Hollywood was never great for children.
I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
Kevin McCarthy, who is the House majority leader, was pretty open. He went out and recruited candidates. And the Republicans in the House have paid a price for it ever since, because they cannot pass anything comprehensive or real because of the Freedom Caucus, which is the child, the product, the progeny of the Tea Party.
I'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had a cold and withholding mother, about being divorced. The more I've been writing novels, each novel I've written has become successively less grounded in anything approaching autobiography.