Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

If you're locked to the words on the script, as good as those scripted words are, if you didn't have the time to rehearse them correctly or if the perceived dynamic between the actors is different from what the writer imagined, and you're not allowed to stray from that, you're going to have a stilted scene.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.

Trade means jobs, but trade also means security. The time has come for all of us to urge the swift adoption of the Trans Pacific Partnership.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.

Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.

Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.

Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.

At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.

I love working and I love doing lots of things and a variety of things. It keeps your mind active... and you don't end up worrying about just the one thing. When I chew things over or analyze too much, that is when I can trip myself up.

I'm looking for smart friends all the time.

Most makeup campaigns are not in black and white.

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax.

A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation.

I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.

It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis.

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

I was never really a DJ... I just kinda figured it all out at once as I started to tour. I was making music and producing and I just had to start to DJ as I got more into touring.

Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well.

Really study what types of formats have been working online that you resonate with: get a feel for what works in the current ecosystem of online video. Sometimes, that passion-project you really want to do is not the way to start.