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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

I think that for the actors, the last thing that they want is a director that's not watching, a director that goes 'Okay, it sounded good to me,' and they were doing something else or preoccupied with something else because they were worried about the light changing.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.