I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death. Listen to them.

Management cares about only one thing paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

It is not an easy thing to put on a wet sock.

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus.

When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

Nuclear missiles don't discriminate on party lines when they land.

There is no long distance about love, it always finds a way to bring hearts together no matter how many miles there are between them.

If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers have 'skin in the game,' and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Early in my career, I didn't want to disappoint my colleagues, clients, or family. So I said yes to everything. This ended up raising my stress level and shortchanging everyone else - including myself - because I couldn't give anyone 100 percent of my time, nor could I pay close attention.

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

The more nearly the film cutter approaches the natural law of interest, the more invisible will be his cutting. If the camera moves from one person to another at the exact moment that you in the legitimate theatre would have turned your head, you will not be conscious of a cut.

When you think of the good old days think one word dentistry.

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

Theres no hidden secrets going on in the Federal Reserve

Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.

If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and I'm here to me me, I'm here to express myself musically which I find is the best way to express myself.