Midi is my hobby.

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

Midi is my hobby.

The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.

Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Dont face the fear and youll be its slave. Face the fear and now you are its master. The death of fear is then certain.

For ten years, I went to piano lessons. I don't think I'm a very musical person, and the theory quite defeated me, but I had a freak aptitude for Debussy and Ravel.

The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.

I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.

A college boy cannot successfully go through life by graduating in football baseball or highballs for the responsibilities of life are not ball bearing.

Get going… walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.

Gotta keep moving; can't stop; stagnation kills.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

No country's policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is coming to power. In a year's time, a government can look different. You can't influence them if you don't talk to them.

My campaign confirmed my belief that although there are bigots in America, whose hateful rhetoric seizes the media's attention, the vast majority of people do not harbor such prejudice.

I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.

I'm not deeply involved in politics, but about 25% of the people I interact with in politics went to law school.

Some economists estimate that for every family that goes bankrupt, there are about 15 more who are in the same amount of financial trouble and would profit from bankruptcy but just haven't filed.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.

What's disgusting about genetic modification of food? I speculate that many people have an immediate, intuitive sense that what's healthy is what's 'natural,' and that efforts to tamper with nature will inevitably unleash serious risks - so-called Frankenfoods. The problem with that speculation is that it's flat-out wrong.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.