I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

People who know me know that I'm not going to open my mouth and say something if I don't mean it. I'm very short and sweet. I'm old-school when it comes to it: I say what I mean and mean what I say, and then get off of it. It's simple as that.

Chinese people age overnight.

I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to make your own destiny in this world.

I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.

I work a lot of conditioning and stamina.

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

I was a single mother when my child was little.

It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

A field of glory is a field for all.

Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.

Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.

I was born to be a teacher, and I'll die a teacher.

Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.

You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.

For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You're photographing a relationship with the person you're shooting; there's an exchange, and that's what that picture is.

It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.