Will America lead. . . and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?
I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.
And the walls became the world all around.
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card. ” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it. ” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.
I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U. S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect. '
It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.
I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.