"Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails."

“It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.”

“My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.”

“Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.”

“I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.”

“Sometimes trust takes time. We all love to be in control, but when you start to give some of that up, it's freeing. Start with some of the little things. Give those things up to the Lord. Ultimately the most important decision you can make is giving your life over to Christ and trusting Him with it. That's an amazing thing.”

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“It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.”

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“Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live in a manly way, die a manly death. To be thus a man was to give constant proof of one's manliness-to be more a man today than yesterday, more a man tomorrow than today. To be a man was to forge ever upward toward the peak of manhood, there to die amid the white snows of that peak.”

“Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it”