But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

Lucinda Williams

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Oscar Wilde

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things , objectively, and to be able to separate this picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.

Erich Fromm

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Cesar Chavez

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Michel de Montaigne

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Gerald F. Lieberman

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Marya Mannes, "A Word to the Wiz

A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening men.

Julie Burchill

Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels.

Dakin Williams

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Elizabeth Arden