“I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.”
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“My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.”
“Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.”
“I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.”
“As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.”
“I had the honor to meet Geraldine Ferraro on a few occasions over the years at the DNC and what struck me was how she managed to be both gutsy and graceful at the same time. Without a doubt she was a trailblazer who not only stepped outside the box but who dared to redefine it. I always left her presence with the sense that she truly knew what she was talking about but that she never felt the need to browbeat you with it - instead she inspired people to listen and then act, and to me thats the hallmark of a true leader.”
“A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.”
“The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.”
“No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.”
“It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them.”
“The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.”
“The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.”
“I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.”
“If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.”
“In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range”
“But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.”
“Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.”
“Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.”
“I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.”
“To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.”