The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority all should carry it out faithfully.

I hope to be at the top of my game when I'm 65 or 70. I don't want to reach my peak at 29. Not that I'm holding back anything, but there's a bunch of junk I don't know.

I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.

My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.

I've just gotten to do a lot of very different things, and as an actor, that's what you want.

I don't try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

It's more than a little ironic that the mantra that swept Bill Clinton into office is exactly what prevented Hillary from winning it. Somehow, the Manhattan billionaire became the voice of the disaffected blue-collar middle class in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.

I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.

I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.

I try not to look back on my career.

My mother told me, 'Always do your best,' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'

My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

I'm not really enamored by movie stars.

In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.

I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.

I know that people get cast based on how they look in Hollywood.

When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.