Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.
I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a big world out there. So she had a huge impact on me.
You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.
Just like everything else in our lives, with the good comes the bad. It applies to success as well. Success isn't a destination, it's a journey - a journey that will be sure to come with lots of great achievements and lots of setbacks. You have the power to decide if those downsides are going to define you in a negative way or a positive way.
The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises.
Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.
Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.
Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
I was always pretty good at adapting to my situations. My act was never that inside, where it was like, "Okay, they're either going to get this or they're not. "
When I meet my fans, it's not like meeting a stranger. It's like saying hello to someone that I already know.
What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism. " It's a joke.
The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.
The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.
I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.
We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.
It has been found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement and the more it looks like an editorial, the more readers stop, look, and read.
I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics.
Do you remember your childhood? I am always coming across these marvelous accounts by writers who declare that they remember 'everything. ' I certainly don't. The dark stretches, the blanks, are much bigger than the bright glimpses. I seem to have spent most of my time like a plant in a cupboard.
I'm not one of those actors that goes to watch the playback, after every take. I really don't like it, and I don't want to see it.
