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“Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Performing alone - it's a very solitary experience. When you're in a band, when something amazing happens on stage you can look at each other, "Yeah! we're so locked in." Or if something goes wrong, you can look at each other and shrug and say, "Oops." If you're doing it by yourself, you reflect on it in a completely different way.”
Source : "The Enchanting Solo Flight of Singer Aoife O’Donovan". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. March 19, 2016.
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“Nothing is more powerful than the human spirit.”
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“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.”
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“Don't tell people you care about them when all you really care about is getting your own way.”
Source : Carol Plum-Ucci (2002). “What Happened to Lani Garver”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.”
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“Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.”
Source : Zoey Dean (2008). “Almost Famous, A Talent novel”, p.105, Penguin
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“All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another, the power of thought, accompanied by perception, which is the awakening of thought by the effects of external objects upon the senses.”