The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.

I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.

My purpose as an artist is to heal the divided feminine in our culture. Well, okay wait, that sounds incredibly cheesy and like something a massage therapist might do at Esalen.

Now that the 90's are over and more time has gone by, the 80's sound fresh again.

We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players... that's fading away.

You can still wear trousers and show off your ankles - which are a nice body part on everyone.

I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.

Mostly it would be those who rode in a particular event would hang out with those who rode in the same event.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

I think being part of Pentatonix has helped my arrangement style a lot, and that's helped me expand myself.

It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.

All my references are 50 years old—when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

Parenting definitely has some challenging moments.

If you think you can sing, you can sing; that's all that matters. So I'm always singing around my guys, around the team, during warm-ups, because I think people need to hear this voice. I think they...

However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as...

Usually, I play people who are a lot younger than I am, because people think that I look really young, which I do.

I don't even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I was pulled out of her arms, and she landed 75 yards away from our trailer and had a...

I got my undergraduate degree in chemical engineering.

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

If you just looked up where we were from and you looked at what we looked like, it'd be very easy to assume a lot of things about us. Some of those things might even be true. But I don't think we...

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't...

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

There's this whole list of old personalities that I can act, as corny as that sounds, or as method actor as that sounds.

Mothers and daughters find in each other the source of great comfort but also of great pain. We talk to each other in better and worse ways than we talk to anyone else.

I wouldn't change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today.

I've loved the RuPaul model of drag, where you're an amazing drag queen, you're a smart and savvy business person, and you use those together to keep drag at the forefront of what people are talking...

If you go to any elementary school classroom in Texas, some kids in there are going to be named either Austin, Dallas or Houston.

You don't always have to be a leader and be as vocal as I am. I'm sure some people would love it if I didn't talk as much as I did.

I think the Obama administration, whether it's in his first term or second term, is totally committed to the search for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and we greatly appreciate the...