If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?

All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing.

Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.

Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.

I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

Each step of the way, I'm learning. When I leave an interview, I learn whether I feel, 'Oh, that was nice,' or that made me feel like a little piece of me was taken.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone.

Let's deal with each other honestly.

We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.

For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband - chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.

Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right.

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.

Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.

Many of you may remember that I supported Mike Huckabee for president in 2008. He was doing great, beating out Mitt Romney, when some shenanigans were pulled by bringing in Fred Thompson as a candidate to compete against Mike for the evangelical and conservative votes in South Carolina.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.

One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

To the world you may be one person but to one person you are the world.

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

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