Know that you can make a difference in the world by being true to yourself, and moving in the direction of your dreams!

Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

This is government. There is no entertainment.

My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.

Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.

Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

With time some poems just fall by the wayside. Other poems get better over time with revision, revision, revision. My ladybug poem took 10 minutes to write but was 10 years in the making.

And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.