Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line.
You can't always be a leading lady.
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Very few people want to hear the truth. Bogie was like that, my mother was like that, and I'm like that. I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don't believe in that. So I'm not the most adored person on the face of the earth.
Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen. . . Growing up takes longer than you think.
Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the 'film' was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, 'Now that's a vampire film!' And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead!
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.
It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye. . . In the main, the issues behind these falls could be grouped under a lack of competence, a lack of support or loyalty from those they sought to lead, and a lack of failure of integrity. Of all these the last is the most egregious, the most fatal. We so much want our leaders to be unfailingly decent that an obvious or perceived flaw in integrity can be the toxin which kills them off.
A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.
If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.