Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.
My first love will always be movies.
Brian Eno records and music got me through. It made me feel like there were other people out there who had the same questions and fears and unhappiness. Particularly those kinds of artists who were writing songs about exactly those things.
I was naïve when I was young, I was sheltered. I had illusions about who I was going to be, delusions, and a little bit of pretentiousness. And I thought, "I'll write the guy like that. It'll allow me to make fun of everyone else if I make fun of myself. "
I feel this way about a lot of movies, that the characters are idealized versions of people. For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.
I am very interested in the small decisions people make that do set you on a different road in your life. As much as we have influence over what kind of person we're going to become, there are little tests along the way.
I feel like I came from a generation where. . . We didn't have Vietnam. We didn't have World War II. Nothing cultural was thrust upon us to make men out of us, so you're kind of free to not grow up that way if you don't want to.
Our problem as leaders is we do everything we know to do. That's not enough. We need to do everything God wants us to do.
Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.