Difficult Choices famous quotes

I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a problem.

The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.

It's been great to come to the U.S. and not have people judge me because of what they saw or heard when I was 16 and on a TV show. They're actually judging me on the fact that I can sing and how my personality is now. Which I think is great.

He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.