Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.

No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.

I was a comfort factor. I'm not a hustler.

Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.'

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

There's nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality.

The fashion industry has a responsibility to represent a healthy image of women, but to start weighing them and putting them against a wall and making them feel like animals? No.

We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

We generate fears when we sit. We overcome them by action.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.

Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that.

Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.

I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

I wouldn't know Robbie Williams if I fell over him.

To describe something as being black and white means it is clearly defined. Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear. In fact, it creates a grey area.

I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's like the oil well's on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.

Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.