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I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family.

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

I am just one human being.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.

No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.

I just like having fun.

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

Just because it sparkles doesn't mean it's good.