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It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?