When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Malcolm X

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

George Washington

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

Roger Bacon

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Reese Witherspoon

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

George Bernard Shaw

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy

Norman Vincent Peale

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

Christo

At that moment, Oliver realized that home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.

Jodi Picoult

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

E. M. Forster

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.

Julia Ormond

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.

Al Jarreau

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

Theresa May