She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.

When you do something beautiful and nobody notice, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.

It's so easy to be grateful for a flower, for a bug, for a beautiful day.

Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.

I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before.

When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one.

The end of shows are a nightmare for everybody because there is so much pressure to satisfy everyone, which of course you can't do.

What I love about believing in a living God is that I believe God is constantly revealing God's self to us over time, and with each succeeding generation, we come a little closer to understanding the mind of God.

Ours was not a normal or easy life.

Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.

I'm a tap dancer. Once you're a tap dancer, you're always a tap dancer. In 'After Midnight,' I get to dance, but I don't do a full tap number.

The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

I was in a weight-cutting sport, in judo, so I had to be a certain weight on a deadline. It kind of pushed me into having a really unhealthy relationship with food in my teens. I felt like if I wasn't exactly on weight, I wasn't good-looking.

Good design’s not about what medium you’re working in. It’s about thinking hard about what you want to do and what you have to work with before you start.

I feel like I've gotten more than a lot of people will ever get. I feel very fortunate.

New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

I'm really interested in the form, putting one piece up against another and finding something corroborative in another voice. I've done a lot of that.

I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government.

I am not a political person, so I cannot comment on politics.

If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may not believe in God and still call himself a Hindu. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth... Hinduism is the religion of truth.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.