"Much of the writing I do about the female body is to remind women, myself included, that they make life and they make death. That strikes me as a far more powerful stance than the weak lies told about mothering."

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“I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.”
“I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not going to happen. We love your voice, but maybe we could use some of your English wit.' He had doubts about it from way back. For starters, we weren't going to be doing the Italian-American crooning thing.”
“A script like Nightcrawler gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision thats mine, which is exciting.”
“One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.”
“Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.”
“Every time you are willing to say â€œYesâ€ to everything on your path, you express the hero inside of you.”
“I have this mistress: show business. I get a lot of love and adulation from outside, and [my wife] lets me have that, while she does all the real-life stuff that counts Â— making sure the kids are going to school and all that. I married a saint Â— well, a saint who curses.”
“I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, "Yeah, but studies say kids can buy drugs more easily than they can buy alcohol." To which I always respond, "I guess that means you keep ***** in your liquor cabinet?”

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