The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

It's been said that horror films are experimental forms of art, and I agree. As an actress, you're put in positions and have to experience emotions that are way beyond reality, whether fighting in a post-apocalyptic world or being possessed by the Devil.

I used to teach dance lessons.

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

There is no substitute for hard work. Always be humble and hungry.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.

Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.

Business cycles naturally entail peaks and troughs in employment, and socially responsible businesses should follow successful examples like Coca-Cola, Alcoa, Saudi Aramco, Africa Rainbow Minerals, and Google in working toward mitigating joblessness and enhancing people's abilities to earn a livelihood.

Domestically, a lot of people think Xi Jinping is becoming Mao Zedong. By giving Hong Kong democracy, people would look at them as enlightened leaders.

The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.

Every son's first superhero is his father, and it was the same for me. For me, he was Superman and Batman combined.

I'm not concerned with what people think of me.

I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.

The wife's submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord and of love for her husband.

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

Andy Clark refers to humans as 'natural-born cyborgs.' What he means is that we habitually extend and change our body-concept without even thinking twice about it.

When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.

Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars and contribute to the literature. Teaching in that kind of environment has focused me much more on the real world, how pieces of the theory I know can be applied to real-world situations.

The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds of war gathering ominously in the background... For my money, few periods are so replete with human interest.

It is my job to step into different characters.

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

It's sad when a woman writing fantasy in the United States in the 1970s has less actual feminist cred than Sir Walter Scott.

One of my tendencies is to let the ball drift too far forward in my stance, and it's something I've been working on with David Leadbetter.