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"I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is an American way of talk, I'm an old-fashioned American. That's probably one of the reasons why I'm in England now and why I'll always stay in England."
"Everyone has opportunities and different doors that are opened to them in different ways. In the end, if you're talented you'll get work, if you're not, you won't, so it doesn't really matter who you know."
"I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us."
"Skinny women don't enjoy being told they're skinny nowadays. They enjoy telling you how they got that way, as though starvation were an achievement."
"Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs."
"Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics."
"The way I've been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things."
"Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions."
"I've got friends who are so good at getting away with things, like going up to the desk to get upgraded on a plane, for example. I haven't got any of that kind of confidence in those situations. I look so awkward. I act awkward. I'm really apologetic. I fail to get anything that way."
"When you're not confident as a young woman in saying "no" or even saying "yes" necessarily, you don't know which one you're more afraid of in some way. That happens a lot."
"I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction."
"There is never just one way to say something, and there is always another way to say something."
"Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons."
"The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played."
"…'It always has to end, doesn't it? We always have to separate.' 'Yes,' I said. He was insistent, 'But it doesn't always have to be that way. We could be together some day for always.' 'Oh, no,' I told him, wondering if he knew it was all over. 'We keep running till we die. We separate, get further apart, till we are dead."
"Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways."
"The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively."
"You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong."
"Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them."
"The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don`t turn out the way you wanted them to because in the theater, you`re always involved with collaborators and they don`t always see the work the way you do."
