My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

You feel touched and honored and alive when you give to someone.

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

I usually get recognized for Spaceballs.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.

I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.

I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.

I've been on shows that go for shock value.

To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.

This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.

Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers.

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.

The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.

In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.

So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.