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'Divergent,' directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth's dystopia - six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants' skills.

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.

The great thing about having digital comics is that it is like having a comic-book shop on your digital device. It has turned comics from a destination buy to an impulse buy.

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is.

It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't.

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

I think Mariska Hargitay on 'Law and Order: SVU' is a really good example of a female lead I'd like to emulate.

If you really believe that every three years the market will double, then go and buy shares. I don't believe that.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

I've not gotten so much stuff because I improvise in an audition, but I always feel like, if that's the case, the reason is because it wouldn't have worked out anyway with us working together.

The cold never bothered me anyway.

Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.

You have to approach it the same way with any quarterback. You're going to try to do the best for your guy.

I had said no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him about his saucy language. It had never gotten to this level until I came back.

As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize.