“Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.”
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“I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.”
“With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.”
“I think dressing nowadays went from trying to fit in to wearing something to try to stick out.”
“For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.”
“I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.”
“I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.”
“I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. Any way to get the word out, I'm just learning about this. The end of this distribution sentence is the scariest part, which is when you start producing and directing. Now the movies are a little more like your children. You now spent years of your life and then it just dumps in one day and you think what happened? It doesn't always happen.”
“Most of the time for me, you're learning what not to do, as opposed to what to do. You never know what to do. I don't, especially in a work environment. You have a little formula yourself. But when I see a director do something I think, whatever he or she just said totally screwed that actor up and now they're worse. I'm never going to do that. I'm going to figure out something else. I want my movie to be good. And that's how it works.”
“My abortion was so long ago I didn't think I needed help. I hoped God had forgiven me but I hadn't realized I didn't forgive myself. After attending this safe, nurturing group I know that I am forgiven and set free.”
“I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.”
“Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .”
“I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.”
“How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.”
“I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.”
“I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.”
“I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.”
“As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.”
“Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.”
“Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.”